Monumental Inscription Detail

Place:

Countess of Huntingdon Church, Brighton

Inscription:

Joseph Sortain, A.B., b. 20 July 1809, 28 years [(1832-60) minister] here, d. 16 July 1860, after a prolonged illness. Erected by his congregation.

Monument details:

Type: Internal Monument.

Monument Condition: Unknown.

Inscription Condition: Unknown.

Person commemorated (or mentioned):

Last name: Sortain.

First Name(s): Joseph.

Birth date: 20 Jul 1809.

Death date: 16 Jul 1860.

Comments:

Nave - north wall. Inscribed rectangular horizontal tablet of white marble flanked by pilasters on large, rectangular horizontal bases with moulded and splayed edges and chamfered, fluted soffits - each with a plain, rectangular horizintal apron; the pilasters have foliage-carved chamfered capitals supporting a plain, broken frieze, a chamfered cornice, heavily moulded with echinous and leaf-ornament, and a low, stilted, triangular pediment which has stilted, triangular accroteria; the whole set against a rectangular horizontal background of grey marbke with a triangular top. Signed (in lower left hand corner of the background, in incised and gilded lettering): BENNET.

Sussex Archaeological Collections, #109, 1971

Transcription details:

Transcribed by: Mark Collins.

Batch: Unknown.

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