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

(137) HORSTED KEYNES, St. Giles


137D Mural monument for Richard WYATT, d. 1753

-  Chancel North wall, at head height.

-  128(W) x 210(H)~Good; faded.

-  In grey marble; yellow marble frame around a white panel with M.I. (10 lines, engraved, black); above, an urn within a broken scrolled pediment on a moulded entablature supported on pilasters; below, base mouldings, then, a curved apron with coloured escutcheon; scrolled corbels; signed (left base moulding): 'R. Chambers' (with Hebrew M.I. to right).

-  Richard Wyatt, Esq., of Treemans, Horsted Keynes, d. Jan 1753, aet 63; his wife Susanna, d. 29 Jun 1774, aet 72, daughter of late Sir Thomas Molyneux, Knt., of Loseley, Surrey.