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

(72) CUCKFIELD, Holy Trinity


72W Mural monument for Peter BURRELL, d. 1756, and others

-  South aisle, West of 72V.

-  94(W) x 173(H)~Very good; fading.

-  White marble unframed M.I. (engraved, black and reddened) fills upper 60%; set portrait-wise on 2 scrolled corbels; above, modest moulded cornice.

-  Peter Burrell, Esq., of Beckenham, Kent, d. 16 Apr 1756, buried Beckenham; his wife Amy, eldest daughter of Hugh Raymond, Esq., of Saling Hall, Essex and Langley, Kent; their issue - Peter (died after 1756); William (died after 1756); Amelia, wife of Tobias Frere, Esq., no issue; Raymond (died in infancy); Issabella (died in infancy); and John (died in infancy); he was the eldest son of Peter Burrell, d. 13 Sep 1718, aet 69, lived at Beckenham from 1684, ninth son of Walter Burrell, Esq., of Holmsted Place, Cuckfield; and Isabella, second daughter of John Merrick, Esq., of Stubbers, North Ockenden, Essex; his siblings - Sir Merrick Burrell, Bart., of West Grinstead Place, Sussex; Francis, wife of Richard Wyatt, Esq., of Egham, Surrey; Issabella, wife of Thomas Dallison, Esq., of Hamptons, Kent; Ann, wife of Richard Acland, Esq., of Devonshire; four other sons died in infancy; one other daughter died in infancy.