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

(270) WADHURST, St. Peter & St. Paul


270CC Mural monument for Edward BURGIS, d. 1750

-  Sanctuary, South-East corner, above head height.

-  173(W); (H) inaccessible~Fine; stained; repaired.

-  M.I. (13+3+5 lines, engraved, black) on a white marble tablet; domed top; set portrait-wise; grey marble frame; below, base mouldings and ornamental apron; above, a cherub within a pointed pediment; no entablature, but scaled and scrolled brackets support a part-frieze; on top, an urn.

-  Edward Burgis, d. 22 Apr 1750, aet 71; his wife, Ann, d. 12 Oct 1752, aet 75; their issue - Ann, d. 12 May 1790, aet 80, wife of John Newington; Jane, d. 14 Jul 1764, aet 52; Richard Walter, d. 19 Aug 1777, aet 63.