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

(264) UCKFIELD, Holy Cross


264H Mural monument for Rev. Henry COURTHOPE, d. 1804

-  South choir wall, alongside and West of 264G.

-  134(W) x 278(H)~Very good; heraldic colour.

-  Composite white marble M.I. panel with arched top; black surround; white marble architrave; flanked by Tuscan columns on very high pedestals with moulded blocked corbels; above, broken pointed pediment and scrolled escutcheon; below, a straight frame moulding.

-  Rev. Henry Courthope, A.M., vicar of Brenchley, Kent, d. 15 Nov 1804, aet 64, buried at Uckfield; second son of George Courthope, Esq., of Whiligh, Sussex; his wife, Mary, d. 29 Apr 1830, aet 82, youngest daughter of William Peckham, Esq., of Arches, Sussex; issue - Mary, d. 1 Nov 1825, aet 48.