KENT

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Canterbury Cathedral

 
Nave

North Aisle
Orlando Gibbons (1625)
by Nicholas Stone (£32)

South Aisle
John Sympson (1752)
by J. M. Rysbrack

South Aisle
Lt. Col. John Stuart (1808)
By: Peter Turnerelli

 North Aisle
Officers and Men of the 50th Queen's Own Regiment 1848
By: George Nelson, after a sketch by: M L Watson 

 South Aisle
Memorial to 13th Prince Albert's Light Infantry (c 1843)
By Thomas Denmen (1787-1848) 

North West Transept St Michael's Chapel North East Transept Choir/North Choir Aisle

Archbishop Peckham (1292) Wooden effigy; weepers on tomb chest. Archbishop Warham (1532)

 Thomas Thornhurst (1627)

 William Pride (1632)

Archbishop Tait (1882)
By: Sir Edgar Boehm, and Farmer & Brindley

Archbishop Chilchele (1443)

Trinity Chapel


 

Dean Wotton  (1567)

 King Henry IV & Joan of Navarre
Alabaster Effigies
Attrib: Robert Brown 1437

Top: Henry IV & Joan of Navarre
Lower: Edward, The Black Prince

Edward Prince of Wales,
'The Black Prince'

Gilt Bronze

South Ambulatory
Archbishop Hubert Walter (1205). Purbeck Marble

Corona There are, of course, many more monuments both in Canterbury and Rochester Cathedrals. Eventually these will be added to this collection

Archbishop Temple (1902)
By: W. D. Caroe and F. W. Pomeroy

 

Charing
St Peter & St Paul

Elizabeth Ludwell (1766)

Chartham
St Mary

 Sarah Young
By: J M Rysbrack 1751

Crayford - St Paulinus

William Draper (1650) & Mary Draper (1652)
By
Thomas Stanton (?)

Elizabeth, Lady Shovel (1732)

Eastchurch
All Saints

Gabriel Livesey (1622)

Sir Richard King (1834)
By: C Thompson

Cranbrook
St Dunstan

 Above: Thomas Wester RA (1886)
By: Sir Horatio Thorycroft

Left:  Roberts Family 1740
By: Joseph Pickford

Eastling - St Mary
Martin & Thomasyne James (1592) with two sons and two daughters
Eastry
St Mary the Virgin
Thomas Nevinson (1590) & Anne Theobald (but see below [Faversham]) Sarah Boteler (1777)
By William Tyler

 
Faversham - St Mary of Charity
Main photograph: Edward Fagg (1618), his wife Anne Theobald and thir daughters, Marie & Anne; there was also a son, Michael, who died young. Left of main photograph: daughter Anne. Right of main: Marie. Far right of main: Anne Theobald. The latter was first married to Thomas Nevinson and appears on a brass with him in Eastry. Thomas Stouthouse (?) who wrote Monastion Favershamiense. Member of Gray's Inn and Mayor of Faversham. Buried 23-2-1651 but may have been 1653
There are several other monuments of interest in the church, including a wall monument which is said to contain the bones of King Stephen who, according to local tradition, was reburied here following the destruction of his tomb in nearby Faversham Abbey at the Dissolution. Whether there is any truth in this rather pleasant  tale is unkown, as chronicles record that his bone - with those of his wife, Matilda, and son, Eustace, where thrown into Faversham Creek.

Hinxhill - St Mary

 

  Robert Edolph (1632)

Hothfield
St Margaret

Hougham - St Lawrence
Peter Nepueu (1659) & Mary; erected after 1735; by Cheere (John Physick) One of 100, 000 protestants driven from by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
 William Hannington & Family (1607 age 92) 'Herein their silent urnes (againe wedded after deaths diverce) lie William Hannington Esq and His wife...These happie olives budded friutfullie into 5 sonnes 4 daughters 2 as soon blasted as blowne...'
 
Ickham
 -
St John the Evangelist
Far Left: John Wood (1789)
Next: William Heghtresbury, rector, (1372). He was rector from 1354 & known as Professor of the Sacred Page. He was also canon of Sarum and Wimelingwold in Wingham Church. His will directed that he should be buried here and bequeathed a potiphory containing the music to sing the service
Next & Far Right: Knight mid 14th century. Possibly Thomas de Ba or Bay (1339) Stained glass here - but now lost - contained his arms and name

Ightham - St Peter

Sir William Selby (1611) & nephew Sir William Selby (1638) Detail and Whole Monument

Sir William Cawne (c. 1373-4)

 Dorothy Selby (1641) By: Edward Marshall
She was famous for her needlework

Knowlton - St Clement
'The Lady Elizabeth D'Aeth, only daughtr of that famous Admiral Sir John Narbrough Knt, sister and heir to those two unfortunate young gentlemen John Narborough Bart and James Narbrough Esq. She was the fruitful mother of twelve children by her husband Sir Thomas D'Aeth Bart of whome seven survived her. Two sons Narbrough and Tomas and five daughters Elizabeth, Elhannah, Sophia, Bethia and Harriot. She died in childbed the 24th June in the year of our Lord 1721 in the 39 year of her age and lyes in the vault underneath.'
The brothers referred to were drowned off the coast of Sicily following a shipwreck: their monument is opposite.
Milstead - St Mary and Holy Cross
Dame Elizabeth Tylden (1839) She died in Malta age 44, leaving one daughter Elizabeth Jane. 'Entombed beneath repose the mortal remains of...' Eleanor Constance Chafy age 26. 'a mother yet no mother'
Both daughters of the clergy
Nettlestead - St Mary
Lady Elizabeth Stafford (1598) daughter of William Stafford, whose first wife had been Mary Boleyn Lady Catherine Scott (1636), 2nd wife of Sir John Scott whose first wife was Elizabeth Stafford

Rochester Cathedral

 
 
Nave: South Aise Nave: North Aisle N E Transept Chapel

 

South African War Memorial; Alabaster 

Lady Henniker (1792) By: Thomas Banks RA
(detail: Time and Whole Monument)
Coade Stone

Richard Sonmer (1682)
By William Stanton (?)

Lee Warren (1698) By John Broxup
(Detail & Whole Monument)

  South Transept    

Richard Watts (1579)
By Charles Easton (1763) paid £50

Joseph Maas (1886)
Alabaster & Marble
By: J Currie, designed by Temple Moore 

Sir Richard Head (1689)
By: Grinling Gibbons 


Tunstall - St John the Baptist
Sir James Cromer ( 1613) or Crowmer & 2nd wife Martha. 'Lady Martha his deare & sorrowful wife, for honour and love and not without much grief, hath erected this monument' Fragment only of formerly large monument. Sir Edward Hales (1654 age 78) m. 1. Deborah Harlakden with whom 4 sons & 2. Martha, widow of James Cromer (left), with whom no issue. Signed: W Sweet & M Miles. Alabaster. The chapel was extended for this monument Robert Cheke DD (1647) Edward Mores (1740), Rector here for 34 years
Waldershare - All Saints
Hon Peregrine Bertie (1701) 2nd son of 2nd Earl of Lindsey & Susan Monys (1697) Original iron railings








Wingham
St Mary the Virgin

 Oxenden Family (1682) Various Details. By: Grinling Gibbons/ Arnold Quellin (?)

Above: Sir Thomas Palmer Bart (1625) & Margaret Pole/Pooley by Nicholas Stone

 All the photographs on this page have kindly been provided by Dr John Physick CBE, Resident of Kent and Vice President of the Church Monuments Society and by Jean McCreanor, to whom thanks. The steel plate engravings are from Edward Blore's book.

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