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

(93) EASTBOURNE, St. Mary


93D Mural monument for Rev. Alexander BRODIE, d. 1828

-  Nave, South wall, West end, very high, above 81C.

-  85(W) x (H) inaccessible~Very good.

-  M.I. (engraved, Latin) fills a white marble panel in pedestal form; thin, black baseplate; above, a frieze of volutes, drapes and a rose; on top, a flaming urn on base mouldings; below, in relief on the apron, the symbols of a pastor's office; decorative corbel signed (lower right, only partly legible): '... [SQUARE?] / LONDON'.

-  Rev. Alexander Brodie, D.D., vicar of Eastbourne for 18 years, d. 18 Jun 1828, aet 53; his widow, Anna, d. 6 Oct 1864, aet 85; issue - 11 children; eldest son Alexander, d. 9 May 1815, aet 6.