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

(173) MAYFIELD, St. Dunstan


173R Mural monument for George and Philadelphia BAKER, dated 1765

-  South-East chapel, South wall, near South-East corner, high.

-  130(W) x 260(H)~Very good; fading.

-  M.I. (10 lines, engraved, black) fills white marble tablet, unframed; below, an escutcheon in Baroque frame against brown freestone; moulded triangular corbel; base moulding; above, curved cornice supporting a broken scrolled pediment; plaque with cherub's head; on top, flaming urn; signed (right edge of lower cornice): 'S: Oliver Fecit'.

-  George Baker, Gent.; his wife, Philadelphia Baker; dated 1765.