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

(40) BRIGHTON, St. Nicholas of Myra


40NN Mural monument for Elizabeth LEIGH, d. 1826

-  North aisle, West wall, facing East, North end, above head height.

-  Inaccessible~Faded; dirty.

-  M.I. (engraved, black) fills unframed white marble tablet; black baseplate with pointed top; arms over moulded cornice.

-  (Little legible) Elizabeth Leigh, d. 9 May 1826, aet 70; last daughter of Stratford Canning, Esq., of Carvagh, Ireland; her first husband, Captain Westly Percival, of Knight's Brook, Co. Meath; her second husband, Rev. William Leigh, of Rushhall, Hall, Staffordshire; issue - 3 daughters; her many virtues; quotes 1 Corinthians 15.22.