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

(177) MOUNTFIELD, All Saints


177D Mural monument for John SMEE, d. 1824

-  Nave, South wall, East of the South door, above head height.

-  c.97(W) x c.126(H)~Good, fading, dentil details lost on brackets.

-  M.I. (25 lines, engraved, black) on a simple unframed, white marble tablet, set portrait-wise; brackets (formerly) ornamented with dentils below; above, a moulded cornice and a low, pointed pedestal.

-  John Smee, Esq., civil servant (30 years East India Co.), died at Court Lodge, Mountfield, 27 Dec 1824, aet 56; issue - unnamed.