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

(160) LEWES, St. Michael


160C Mural monument for Margaret DICKENS, d. 1793

-  North aisle, North wall, centre, above head height.

-  82(W); (H) inaccessible~Fine.

-  White on black; M.I. (11 lines, engraved, black) on panel with curved apron; cornice below an urn in bas relief; high pedestal; volute decoration at top; wreathed initials 'MD' in centre; all against a black marble baseplate in obelisk form.

-  Margaret Dickens, d. London, 22 Mar 1793, aet 62; daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Lardner, of Lewes; and widow of Rev. Samuel Dickens, D.D., archdeacon and prebendary of Durham.