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

(221) RYE, St. Mary


221B Mural monument for members of the PROCTER family, including James, d. 1809

-  North transept, high on North wall, facing East.

-  Inaccessible~Very good; colour.

-  An irregular black baseplate; on cornice, a grey marble draped urn with palmette decorations; M.I. (19 lines, engraved, black) fills a trapezoidal panel; below, 2 decorative corbels and an achievement.

-  Anne Procter, d. 2 Feb 1831, aet 78; second daughter of James Lamb, Esq., by his first wife, Anne, daughter of David and Anne Morris; and wife of Nathaniel Procter, Esq., d. 5 Aug 1836, aet 79; their second son, Lieut. James Procter, R.N., lost off the Texel, 18 Jun 1809, aet 26, when in command of H.M. schooner Sealark.