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

(40) BRIGHTON, St. Nicholas of Myra


40V Mural monument for Philip METCALFE, d. 1818

-  Tower West wall, South of West door, below 40U, partly obscured by notice board.

-  57(W) x 70(H)~Fine; rust.

-  M.I. (engraved, black) fills unframed white marble tablet. Final line (obscured) reads: '... made the scene of his residence'.

-  Philip Metcalfe, Esq., F.R.S. F.S.A., of Hill Street, Berkeley Square, London and Hawsted, Suffolk, MP 1784-1807 (Horsham, Malmsbury, Plympton), died at Brighton, 26 Aug 1818, aet 85; regular visitor to Brighton for over 50 years.