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

(39) BRIGHTLING, St. Thomas à Becket


39U Brasses for Thomas PYE, d. 1592

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

-  Upper M.I.: 35(W) x 6.5(H); Figure and scrolls: 14(H); Lower M.I.: 47(W) x 12.5(H); Stone slab: 53(W) x 65(H)~Very good.

-  5 brasses mounted on a slab (Horsham stone?) with a moulded wooden frame; Upper M.I. records patron; Scrolls bearing mottos on left and right of a kneeling male figure; Lower M.I. (7 lines, engraved).

-  Thomas Pye, d. 4 Jun 1592, an infant; only son of another Thomas Pye, D.D.; his virtues.