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

(48) CATSFIELD, St. Laurence


48B Mural monument for Edward STAPLEY, d. 1720

-  North-East chapel floor, against South wall, facing North.

-  89(W) x 134(H)~Very worn.

-  M.I. (engraved) fills a freestone dome-topped slab; squared bottom; ornamental shoulders.

-  Edward Stapley, M.A., rector of Catsfield from 1708, and rector of Penhurst from 1707, d. 25 Dec 1720, aged 43; son of William Stapley, of Allington, yeoman, and his wife, Eleanor.