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

(93) EASTBOURNE, St. Mary


93C Mural monument for Joseph FILDER, d. 1818

-  South nave aisle wall, West end, at head height.

-  118(W) x 107(H)~Very good.

-  M.I. (6 lines, engraved, centred, black) on a panel of trapezoidal form; moulded frame flanking; cornice moulding, then scrolled pediment with rosettes and foliage; below, apron with small escutcheon with motto and ferns, flanked by 2 decorative corbels; all on a thin black baseplate; unsigned.

-  Joseph Filder of Eastbourne, d. 28 Dec 1818, aet 61; his wife, Mary, d. 21 Mar 1795, aet 37.