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

(93) EASTBOURNE, St. Mary


93NN Wall-mounted brasses for the BURTON Family, dated 1586, 1631, etc.

-  South-East chapel, North wall, against the wall.

-  Base stone: 76(W) x 99(H); Top left brass shield: 18.5(W) x 21(H); Top right brass shield: 18(W) x 21(H); Upper brass M.I.: 38.5(W) x 18(H); Lower brass M.I.: 43.5(W) x 21(H)~All fine.

-  A shallow, grey freestone slab; squared bottom end; gabled top; supporting 4 brasses; above, 2 escutcheons; in the centre, a M.I.; below, another M.I.

-  Mary Burton, buried 19 Apr 1631, only daughter of Henry Perient, Esq., of Birch, Essex; her husband, Sir Edward Burton, Knt; issue - 15 unnamed.