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

(72) CUCKFIELD, Holy Trinity


72EE Mural monument for John and Hopestill WARDEN, d. 1730 and d. 1749

-  High in the South nave aisle.

-  95(W) x c.180(H)~Generally very good; fading.

-  M.I. (14 lines, engraved, black) white marble tablet; set portrait-wise; within a grey veined marble frame; above, entablature with broken pointed pediment and urn; below, squared base moulding, then block corbels against a darker grey apron with the escutcheon and motto 'Guardez le foy'; signed (underneath): 'Thos. Burnell Londini fecit'.

-  John Warden, of Butler's Green, d. 30 Apr 1730, aet 79; his wife, Hopestill, d. 22 Jul 1749, aet 92; their only son - Francis Warden, Esq.