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

(39) BRIGHTLING, St. Thomas à Becket


39G Mural monument for Thomas COLLINS, d. 1709 and his wife Margaret, d. 1720

-  On North aisle chapel (Lambarde) wall, North-West corner.

-  90(W) x 184(H)~Excellent; faded.

-  M.I. (engraved; final 3 lines added) on a white marble cartouche; drapery and cherubim surrounds; above, arms; below, a pedestal with scrolls, foliage and a laurel wreathed death's head.

-  Thomas Collins, of Socknersh, d. 13 Dec 1709, aet 80; his wife, Margareta, d. 2 May 1720, aet 85; daughter of Henry Cox, of Swanmore, Southampton.