Monumental Inscription Detail

Place:

All Saints, West Dean

Inscription:

TO THE MEMORY OF
Mr EDWARD STANFORD late of
Excet who DIED March 17th
MDCCLIX
Aged 54 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: 17 Mar 1759.

Age: 54.

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 230

Transcription details:

Transcribed by: Mark Collins.

Batch: Unknown.

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