CHURCHES of SUSSEX
Easebourne Monument
The glory of the church is the tomb of the man who built this place, a little
faded now but a marvellous sight in the days before they brought it home from
Midhurst.
Sir Anthony Browne was Chief Standard-Bearer of England, and was made Lord
Montague by Queen Elizabeth, who was his guest for a week at Cowdray.
He kneels on a marble monument 30 feet round, two wives below him and six
children in the panels, with a mass of painted arms and tasselled cushions
and little cherubs, and Sir Anthony above it all in gilded armour wearing
a chain.
Close by Sir Anthony are two beautiful white figures, one by Chantrey. They
face each other, William Stephan Poyntz and his wife, she with her hands at
her breast, a sorrowful figure, as if remembering that she sat with him one
day a window at Bognor and saw their two sons drown. It was Waterloo year,
when they were the owners of Cowdray. She was the only sister of the last
Lord Montague and she was buried here in a coffin made from a tree in Cowdray
Park.
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