Name	Jane Gunter (née Cooke) pre-1557
Date	1557 - 1557
Gender	Female

There is a canopied table-tomb attached to the north wall, perhaps commemorating John Gunter (or Gounter) who died 1557, but erected earlier. On the east side is a man in armour, bare-headed and wearing a tabard, kneeling at a prie-dieu. Behind him kneel four sons in civilian dress of gowns with false sleeves hanging from the elbows. West of the central Christ figure at a similar prie-dieu kneels a woman thought to be Gunter's second wife, Jane, wearing mantle and kennel head-dress. Behind her, kneel two daughters wearing kirtles and like head-dresses (Salzman, 113-18). The boys are in tunics, short-sleeved coats, trunk hose, stockings and shoes. His wife is dressed in an overgown and wears a "pedimental" bonnet; the daughters likewise. The monument has been whitewashed. It is likely (according to the achievements on the monument) that the woman is Gunter's second wife. Jane Tyrrel was the daughter of Edward Tyrrel and his wife, a widow whose surname at birth was Cooke of Rustington (Mosse, 1933, 116-7). In his will of 1557 John Gunter requests that he be buried in Racton church in a canopied tomb (church leaflet).

Good, M (2004) The Buildings of England Database, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Mosse, H (1933) The monumental Effigies of Sussex (1250-1650)

Hove: Combridges

Salzman, L (ed (1953) A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 4: The Rape of Chichester, 113-18 at URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=43540&strquery=Racton%20Sussex. Date accessed: 09 August 2007

Pevsner, N & Nairn, I (1965) The buildings of England: Sussex London: Yale University Press, 311