Monumental Inscription Detail

Place:

All Saints, West Dean

Inscription:

Here Lyeth Interr'd the Body of
EDWARD STANDFORD Late of Excet
who Departed this Life April ye
19th 1725 Aged 65 Years.
Also the Body of GRACE his wife
who Died the 27th January
1724 Aged 58 years.

Monument details:

Type: Stone grave marker (external).

Monument Condition: Unknown.

Inscription Condition: Unknown.

Person commemorated (or mentioned):

Last name: Stanford.

First Name(s): Edward.

Birth date: Not given.

Death date: 19 Apr 1725.

Age: 65.

Comments:

Brick built grave with flat stone slab (no inscription), between the west end of church and the clergy house. A stone slab let into the brickwork on the south side contains this inscription. Transcribed from Sussex Archaeological Collections, Volume LXXIV, 1933; Page 229

Transcription details:

Transcribed by: Mark Collins.

Batch: Unknown.

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