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

(157) LEWES, St. Anne


157B Mural monument for Henry SHELLEY, d. 1805, and family

-  Nave, North wall, to East of North door, high up.

-  c.105(W); (H) unknown~Very good.

-  Pendant to 157C; M.I. (26 lines, engraved, black) on grey marble tablet, set portrait-wise with cornice and base moulding; below, a decorated apron in a dark shelly stone with an escutcheon.

-  Henry Shelley, d. 3 Jan 1805, aet 77, eldest son of another Henry Shelley, Esq. and Eleanor; his widow, Philadelphia d. 7 May 1819, aet 81; their eldest son, Henry, d. 31 Dec 1811, aet 44; their second son, Thomas, d. 14 Feb 1780, aet 9; their eldest daughter, Philadelphia, 18 Feb 1818, aet 53; their second daughter, Elizabeth, d. 29 May 1840, aet 75; their third daughter, Cordelia, d. 21 Sep 1768, aet 6 months; and their fourth (and third surviving) daughter, Cordelia, d. 3 Oct 1854.