Lunette - Jonathan Loomis LbNA #33104
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jul 16, 2007 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Coventry |
| County: | Tolland |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Nomad Indian Saint  |
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| Found by: | Gingergirl84 |
| Last found: | Sep 18, 2017 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Jul 16, 2007 |
Have you ever marveled at the 18 and early 19th century headstones of our ancestors? The colonial burying grounds of New England represent some of the most wondrous carvings and are treasure troves of information and beauty of many kinds. The stones are the “persisting symbols of an art form that is largely indigenous, that reached a high level of abstract complexity and beauty that died away in an amazingly short period of time.”
The term lunette is referred to as the top central area of the stone, the area containing the cherub. Jonathan Loomis stones are concentrated in Coventry. They are of a large size with faces that are rather crude resemblances to those carved by Obadiah Wheeler Loomis. Let me show you a stone carved by him.
Holy Grove – South Street Burying Grounds
Coventry, CT
From the entrance, walk straight ahead about ½ way into the cemetery. Now turn 45 degrees to your left – the stones are now facing you. From Stephen Stiles (right in front of you), 150 degrees and 18 steps to Nathaniel Ladd – a fine example of Loomis’s work. From here, go to low part of wall at 190 degrees. With your right shoulder to the wall, take 5 steps and look to bottom of the wall.
The term lunette is referred to as the top central area of the stone, the area containing the cherub. Jonathan Loomis stones are concentrated in Coventry. They are of a large size with faces that are rather crude resemblances to those carved by Obadiah Wheeler Loomis. Let me show you a stone carved by him.
Holy Grove – South Street Burying Grounds
Coventry, CT
From the entrance, walk straight ahead about ½ way into the cemetery. Now turn 45 degrees to your left – the stones are now facing you. From Stephen Stiles (right in front of you), 150 degrees and 18 steps to Nathaniel Ladd – a fine example of Loomis’s work. From here, go to low part of wall at 190 degrees. With your right shoulder to the wall, take 5 steps and look to bottom of the wall.