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

(72) CUCKFIELD, Holy Trinity


72L Mural monument for Walter BURRELL, d. 1671

-  South wall of South-East chapel, South-East corner, above head height.

-  160(W) x 270(H)~Very good; M.I. illegible; gilding lost.

-  A large black M.I. (20 lines, engraved, Latin) tablet set portrait-wise, within a moulded white marble frame; flanked by free-standing black Corinthian columns, supporting an entablature with frieze and cornice; breaking into the cornice, an achievement with coloured arms; below, base mouldings and the order supported by thick fluted and scrolled brackets flanking a plain black apron with winged cherub below; beyond, scrolls set sideways against the wall; above, festoons of foliage.