(140) ICKLESHAM, All Saints
140F Mural monument for Arnold NESBITT, d. 1779
- South chapel (St. Nicholas), South wall, at head height.
- 120(W) x c.240(H)~Good; recent careful repainting (arms).
- M.I. (9 lines, engraved, black) fills an unframed light grey marble tablet set portrait-wise; moulded entablature set above and breaking forward of grey-veined, flanking panels; below, a decorated black and white ledge, then, an ornamental black baseplate with rosettes, drops, heraldry in relief and a white corbel; above, 2 flaming urns flank a third urn draped with a delicate bead decorated against a tall black backplate in obelisk form; signed (on the urn base): 'J.Marten Sculpr / Tenterden'.
- Arnold Nesbitt, Esq., Lord of the Manor of Icklesham, MP for Winchelsea, merchant, etc., d. 7 Apr 1779, aet 57.
