Detail view of the marble wall monument to Sir Thomas Playters in St Margaret's Church, Sotterley

Date:
1920 - 1942
Location:
St Margarets Church, Sotterley, Sotterley Park, Waveney, Suffolk
Reference:
OP04594
Type:
Photograph (Print)
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Description

The monument to Sir Thomas Playters (1638), situated in the north sanctuary of the church, is by Edward Marshall, master mason to King Charles II. The three kneeling figures are Sir Thomas (shown frontal), and his two wives (in profile); below these are shown their twenty-two children.

Content

This is part of the Series: RCH01/006 Red Box Collection (RCHME); within the Collection: RCH01 Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME) Archive

Rights

© Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Stonemason: Marshall, Edward

Photographer: Lovell, Edmund

Keywords

Stuart Wall Monument, Medieval Parish Church