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

(72) CUCKFIELD, Holy Trinity


72E Mural monument for John WARDEN, d. 1766

-  North chapel (vestry), South wall, facing North, high up.

-  95W x c.200(H)~Very good.

-  A white marble tablet set portrait-wise; lettering blacked; pink inlaid border; grey base moulding; scrolled brackets with ornate apron with crossed ferns and blank escutcheon; ball finial at foot; above, a cornice then broken scrolled pediment with urn in relief.

-  John Warden, Esq., naval officer, 10 May 1702 - 23 Oct 1766, aet 64; second son of Thomas and Prudence Warden; his wife, Anne, widow of John Madgwicke, Esq.; their issue - one son, Thomas Sergison Warden, d. 22 Jun 1739, aet 4, buried at Cuckfield.