(72) CUCKFIELD, Holy Trinity
72I Mural monument for Sir Thomas HENDLEY, d. 1656/7, and others
- North-East buttress of South-East chapel, facing South, above head height.
- c.160(W) x c.340(H)~Generally very good.
- Very large; alabaster; designed round M.I.s on 3 slate tablets (once gilded) in a vertical arrangement; flanking the upper 2 panels, a pair of black attached Corinthian columns supporting a complex entablature with a panel inscribed 'memoriae/sacrum' and a curved, broken pediment with an achievement; on the outside, swags; the upper panel has a decorative curving top; centre panel with moulded rectangular frame; lower panel set in the basement beneath base mouldings and between scrolled brackets with escutcheons; below, scrolled, draped ornament.
- Sir Thomas Hendley, Knt., of Cuckfield, d. 28 Jan 1656/7, aet 76; son of Thomas Hendley, Esq., of Courshorne, Cranbrooke, Kent; his wife, Elizabeth, d. 1634, aet c. 53, buried at Cranbrooke, daughter of [John] Wilford, Esq., of Enfield, Middlesex; their issue - sons: Bowyer, Thomas, Walter, and John; daughters: Jane, Elizabeth, Rachell, Anne, Constance, Margaret and Frances; monument erected by Walter Hendley.
