Memorials                                                                                                                                                                                                              

The church has a large number of memorials, both inside and outside, which add a fascinating insight to the history of the church in the 17th - 19th C.  This page gives a list of them, using the principal name on each and the date of death, listed from the north wall of the chancel heading right (i.e. clockwise) round the church.  As time permits, more details will be added; some have links, or additional names and interesting inscriptions added below already.  There are also a few which survive outside the church as detailed here.

Wall monuments: 

Chancel north wall from west end:
 
Elizabeth Gaitskell   26.7.1822 wife of Henry Gaitskell, "of the Paragon, Old Kent Road", in her 53rd year
Henry Gaitskell        4.3.1836 "of Abbey Road, St John's Wood, formerly of this parish" aged 68; also their three infant children: Alicia 19.7.1796 aged 4 months, Henry 10.5.1800 aged 6 months and Eliza Jane 20.2.1801 aged 12 hours; also John Frederick Gaitskell, their 3rd son, of the East India Company Civil Service, died at Muttra, Bengal, 12.9.1833 aged 22.
Lt Henry Gaitskell RN, 18.10.1844, aged 37, the eldest surviving son of Henry and Elizabeth Gaitskell.

William Nottidge Esquire   17.3.1853, "merchant, of The Staple", "died at his house at Wandsworth" on 17.3.1853 in his 86th year.  "He was for many years treasurer of the asylum for the support and education of indigent deaf and dumb children, and of Bacon's Free Grammar School in this parish.  A Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Surrey, President of the East Surrey Conservative Society, Treasurer of the Surrey and Kent Commission of Sewers, and Chairman of the Directors of the Union Fire and Life Assurance Society."

Rev Henry Cox Mason MA        3.2.1804 - Rector of this parish (1802-1804); also Mary Mason his relict, 17.3.1832 aged 79

Joseph Watson LLD, 23.11.1829 aged 63.  For more than 37 years he was teacher in the first public institution in this country for the education of the deaf and dumb, established in this parish in 1792 with six pupils.

Beriah Drew          24.4.1829 in his 77th year - see photograph; also Jane Drew his relict, 25.10 1834, in her 76th year.
William Mason      29.9.1791 in his 73rd year; also Mary Willy Mason his widow, 11.12.1799 in her 87th year
Robert Rich Esq    6.4.1829 in his 77th year.  (This memorial in black granite is curved and was formerly on a column in the church.)  Also his widow Sarah Rich 2.4.1832, in her 74th year, the second daughter of William Bennett of Faversham, Kent

Thomas Gaitskell Esq, 14.9.1839 in his 81st year; "One of Her Majesty's Deputy Lieutenants and, for nearly forty years, a magistrate, of the County of Surrey". Also Jane Gaitskell his relict, 29.11.1858 aged 90 years.

Henry Lewis         9.1.1914, Rector 1896 - 1914 (a brass plaque)

William Castell     26.6.1681 (ornate, in Latin - the oldest memorial in the church) - see photograph and translation.

(Reredos and East window)

Chancel south wall from east to west:
 
Daniel Jennings                     10.9.1770 - see photograph
Col R K Bevington of Neckinger Mills (ref donation of communion rail, chairs and repair of organ in 1954-56)
William Steavens                    5.3.1712  (in latin - ornate and curved, was on a main pillar) - see photographs
Edward Wilson                       18.2.1888 - see photograph
Ralph Page                22.12.1819 in his 74th year - see photograph; also Ralph Page his son died 11.11.1833 aged 63
Basil Pemberton Plumptree MC MA,  killed in action 16.7.1917
 
Nave east wall:
 
Mary Ann Muskett                   22.4.1809 - see photograph ( A monument to George Muskett also exists, unfixed.  It is reckoned that he was quite a rogue and actually may have killed her, despite the sentiment of this memorial; - see more details)

Elizabeth Hardwidge                4.9.1811 (above)
Charles Fox                            27.3.1823 (above right)
Mary Eason                            15.5.1889 (in south aisle)
Elizabeth Wood                      19.8.1730 (in south aisle)
 
Nave south wall (in south aisle):
 
Nathaniel Roffey                     22.6.1733
Abraham Brooksbank             6.4.1844
Mary Field                             2.2.1827
Elizabeth Gibson                    1.10.1834
Mary Owen                            1.6.1812
John Russell (obscured by ceiling, extends above the south gallery floor) - see more details

South gallery (unfixed):
 
Alfred Bevington                 8.1.1879
Jeremiah Riley                  23.5.1800
John Hind                         17.12.1800
George Muskett                 31.1.1843 (see Mary Ann Muskett, above) - see more details
 
South Window (above kitchen):
 
William Fox                     23.2.1810 (curved, formerly on a pillar)
James Riley                     26.4.1825
John Butler                      9.4.1793
William Browning             11.5.1758 - see photos and more details
Ann Banks                      2.1.1806
Dorothy Banks (obscured by floor)
plus two more completely obscured by floor of 1790 gallery)
 
West wall:
 
Joseph Heaton       3.4.1742
Isaac Heaton          9.7.1774
Francis Bryan         22.10.1821
Beautification and repair of the church 1852/1853
Beautification and repair of the church 1880
 
Nave north wall:
 
Mary Bilbee           3.4.1899
Emily Lawrence     18.2.1900
 

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