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

(264) UCKFIELD, Holy Cross


264F Wall-mounted brasses for John FULLER, d. 1610

-  Now against the North choir wall.

-  Slab: 88(W) x 204(H): Brass 1: 19(W) x 24(H); Brass 2: 22(W) x 62(H); Brass 3: 62(W) x 26(H); Brass 4: 53(W) x 29(H)~Fine.

-  Four brasses set on a black slab, with chamfered edges: top, (1) an escutcheon, with the motto 'IOHN FULLER'; below that (2) standing portrait of John Fuller, hands in prayer, in a fur-trimmed gown, (3) a brass M.I. with John Fuller's charitable bequests, (4) a brass epitaph - didactic (11 lines).

-  John Fuller, Gent., of Uckfield, d. 6 Apr 1610, aet unknown; quotes 1 John 3, 11-13.