Monumental Inscription Detail

Place:

Countess of Huntingdon Church, Brighton

Inscription:

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".

Monument details:

Type: Internal Monument.

Monument Condition: Unknown.

Inscription Condition: Unknown.

Person commemorated (or mentioned):

Last name: Figgis.

First Name(s): John Benjamin.

Birth date: 06 Jul 1837.

Death date: 03 Sep 1916.

Age: Unknown or not given.

Comments:

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

Transcription details:

Transcribed by: Mark Collins.

Batch: Unknown.

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