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

(297) WILLINGDON, St. Mary the Virgin


297Q Mural monument for Lady Margaret WILDEGOOSE, d. 1653

-  Sanctuary, North wall.

-  114(W) x 70(H)?~Fine; local losses (pediment); faded.

-  M.I. (engraved, black) set portrait-wise, fills white marble panel; plain black frame on 4 sides; flanking, white marble scrolls and garlands; above, white marble broken pointed pediment; below, skull in centre, flanked by fluted scrolled corbels.

-  Lady Margaret Wildegoose, d. 16 Aug 1653, aet 61; eldest daughter of Henry Lord Dacre, Baron of Herstmonceux; and widow (44 years) of Sir Anslow Wildegoose; issue - three, all died; also her nephew George Parker, Esq., of Ratton.