Caryll Monument, St Margaret's Church, Warnham

It was one of those days when it was difficult to decide what to take as the weather wasn't good when I left work and nothing much around work that looked sufficiently interesting. I detoured a bit on my way home to Warnham and found the church open again. This visit and the last were both in dim light and it was raining as usual! This monument like a previous one I did are on the north wall and with this one, in the NE chapel. I can never find a light switch in this church and as before, I had to grope about to make my way to find this monument and took 3 shots of it before I got the correct alignment!

This monument is dated 1613 and the inscription is in Latin which was the done thing at that time when everything Classical was the key to enlightenment among the wealthy. The Carylls were a local family and were also Catholic, especially the branch that lived at West Grinstead, south of Horsham. Monuments such as this example are useful in showing the costume of the period from Elizabethan to early Stuart times that includes the men in Trunkhose and the ladies in the voluminous Farthingale dresses and the large Ruffs. The children are nearly always shown as minature versions of their parents usually wearing similar costume. Finally at this period it seems to have been common for the adults to be shown kneeling facing each other at a prayer desk and all of these features are a good way of dating a monument like this if the date is not clear or even shown.