East Sussex Church Monuments - 1530 to 1830 - Archive of Photographs
by Professor Nigel Llewellyn

(16) BARCOMBE, St. Mary


16F Mural monument for Susanna MEDLEY, d. 1704

-  South aisle, South wall, East end, at head height.

-  180(W) x 365(H)~Excellent.

-  Magnificent in white and grey marble; elegant draped caryatids, standing on ornamental bases, flank M.I. (engraved black) in upper 50% of a panel set portrait-wise, with cherub over; caryatids support an entablature and a heavy scrolled and broken pediment; urn in the centre; below, ornamental apron, moulded, with escutcheon in Baroque frame.

-  Susanna Medley, died at Coneyborough, Barcombe, 5 Apr 1704, aet 62; wife of Thomas Medley, Esq.; heir to her brother, John Raynes, Gent.; monument erected 1730 by her youngest son Edward Medley.