Sunday Styles: Gothic Tablet

Tablet tombstones are the most common style of headstone. The tablet tombstone includes many variations on the basic rectangular shaped headstone. One variation is the Gothic Tablet. Similar styling as that of the Gothic peaks popular in Gothic Architecture. The tablet style tombstone is generally set directly into the ground, although it may be found set atop a foundation. This type of marker usually date from the eighteenth century through the first decades of the nineteenth century.

Single Tablet

(Located in Rogers Cemetery in Rogers, AR)

(Front)

(Back)

(Located at Rogers Cemetery in Rogers, AR)

Double Gothic Tablet

(Located in Rogers Cemetery in Rogers, AR)