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

(118) GUESTLING, St. Laurence (or Lawrence)


118B Mural monument for Adam ASHBURNHAM, d. 1597

-  South (Lady) Chapel, West wall, above head height.

-  85(W) x 140(H)~(Upper) Fine; (lower) damaged; colour.

-  M.I. on rectangular, black marble panel; flanking, alabaster pilasters (damaged), ribbon work; above, achievement on black panel; below, motto on alabaster panel (damaged on left).

-  Adam Ashburnham, Esq., d. 5 Jun 1597, aet 40; son of Laurence Ashburnham and Eve Adames; his wife, Elizabeth Twisden; issue (still living 1597) - Elizabeth, Laurence, John, Roger, Charles and Edward.