Countess of Huntingdon Church, Brighton
John Benjamin Figgis, M.A., T.C.D., b. 6 July 1837, minister here 1861-97, d. 3 September 1916. Erected "by friends far & near".
Type: Internal Monument.
Monument Condition: Unknown.
Inscription Condition: Unknown.
Last name: Figgis.
First Name(s): John Benjamin.
Birth date: 06 Jul 1837.
Death date: 03 Sep 1916.
Age: Unknown or not given.
Nave - north wall. Upright rectangular tablet of white marble bearing the inscription beneath an oval bronze medallion portrait against a sunken background with a plain border; this bas-relief depicts his head, turned toward dexter, face in old age with short, straight hair, parted on left, side whiskers joining a moustache, a clean-shaven chin and incised eyes, wearing an open, fur collared overcoat, a cloased coat, upstanding cassock and a clerical collar; the tablet flanked by pillasters of polished, rose pink alabaster supporting a moulded entablature with a broken, segmental pediment whose scrolled volutes are joined by a sway of bay with leaves forming pendants at either side of the pilasters; the whole on a rectangular horizontal base with a projecting ledge and a chamfered soffit on chamfered, bay-leaf carved, rectangular horizontal corbels. Signed and dated (on truncated neck of the bronze): Herbert Hamton Sc.1918.
A framed plaster cast (of the original model?) of this relief was also preserved in the church. It carried a small brass tablet, incised: Rev. J. B. Figgis, M.A., Brighton
Sussex Archaeological Collections, #109, 1971
Transcribed by: Mark Collins.
Batch: Unknown.