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

(72) CUCKFIELD, Holy Trinity


72FF Mural monument for Sir Henry and Jane RYCROFT, d. 1846 and d. 1797

-  Very high in North nave aisle arcade, facing North.

-  90(W); (H) unknown~Fine.

-  M.I. (8 + 4 lines) on a white marble tablet set landscape-wise with part-fluted Doric pilasters; rosette corbels below and a grey apron with crossed ferns and an escutcheon; above, a moulded entablature supporting 2 lamps, an urn and festoons against a broad dark grey obelisk as backplate; unsigned.

-  Sir Henry Rycroft, Knt, of Butler's Green, died at Brighton 3 Oct 1846, aet 80; his wife, Jane, d. 21 Apr 1797, aet 31.