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

(160) LEWES, St. Michael


160I Mural monument for Lucy PAYNE, d. 1821, and her father Henry VERRALL, d. 1825

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

-  99(W) x 160(H)~Fine.

-  M.I. on a white panel, set portrait-wise; simple black frame; flanking, Doric half-columns; below, base moulding and 2 block corbels with concentric decorations and palmette finials; above, a frieze with 2 rosettes; a heavy entablature breaking forward left and right, supporting a white urn in low-relief on a pedestal, against a curved apron.

-  Lucy Payne, d. 12 Dec 1821, aet 39; only daughter of Henry Verrall, Esq., late of Potton, Bedfordshire, d. 6 Feb 1825, aet 72; her husband, William Payne, Esq.