St Leonard's Church, Hythe, Kent. Source: Flickering Lamps

St. Bride's church crypt:

Today's sanitised St Brides' crypt. Source: Youtube

Sanitised but note the reference in the final seconds to St Bride's being "The Printer's Church". That's a reference to the use of human skin for bookmaking, as evidenced in Away In a Manger - Part Five.

More on St Brides:

• St. Bride's Church
• St. Bride's Church Charnel House
• The Bones Of St Bride's Church

Holy Trinity Church, Rothwell:

Holy Trinity Church, Rothwell, Northamptonshire, Digital fly-through. Source

• The Nameless Dead
• History of Rothwell
• Holy Trinity's Bone Crypt
• The Rothwell Charnel Chapel and Ossuary Project and here
• Mysterious Universe

St Leonards Church, Hythe, Kent:

• Visit Folkestone and Hythe
• The Ossuary at St Leonards
• The Extraordinary Ossuary at St Leonards Church, Hythe

Photographs in the last St Leonards ossuary link demonstrate the remarkable product consistency achieved before International Standards Organisation (ISO) and DIN certifications were available.

Known locations of ossuaries and charnel chapels in England:

Red markers indicate ossuaries currently holding stock.

Sources:

• Charnel Practices in Medieval England - New Perspectives, Jennifer Crangle
• A Study of Post-Depositional Funerary Practices In Medieval England - JNC Thesis, Jennifer Crangle

From The Torrington Diaries (Abridged Selected), John Byng, 1790-06-07 at Belvoir Castle, Nottinghamshire, p158:

But in the whole House, there is no Furniture (Pictures excepted) that a Broker would think worth the carrying away; Nor one Chair, Table, Carpet or Curtain of use or comfort! In this Condition was the House found by the late duke; An old Bed, curiously worked by a Countess of Rutland, in a tapestry Room, with fine velvet Chairs, is the most antient Observation in the House.

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