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                    Some Monumental Inscriptions of Coldred Church,  Noted by Rev Bryan Faussett in 1758

Kindly typed up for the website by Pat Tritton

In the Chancell.

1. One a flat stone. Here lieth The Body of William, soun of Captain William OCKMAN, of Deale (Deal), gen, and Mary his wife, 4^th daughter of Capt. Stephen PILCHER, late of this Parish, who died Oct. 27 1704. Aged 2 Months. Also the Body of Sarah Ockman died Feb. the 7^th 1706-07.. Aged 4 Years, 1 Month. Also the Body of Mary Ockman, A…./ the 4^th 1707. Aged 9 Months, 1 Week.

2. On Another, with this Coat.
    (Gu. a fesse between 3 crescents or imp. A fesse dancety between 3 roundels [no tinctures]).
Here lyes The Body of Mrs Mary OCKMAN, wife of Captn. William Ockman of Deale, and Daughter of Captn. Stephen PILCHER of this Parish, she departed this Life the 18^th Day of July 1732. Aged 68 Years. Here also lieth interr’d the Body of The Abovesaid Captain William Ockman who departed this Life the 4^th Day of July 1740. Aged 70 years.

3. Haines, 2.iii. now mural C. On Brass Plate on a Flat Stone. Here lieth the Body of William FYNTCH, Gent. who deceased the 25^th day of December 1615. He had issue, by Bennet his Wife, Daughter and Heir unto Christopher HUNNIWOOD Gent. 4 sonnes, William, Christopher, Thomas and Robert, and 3 daughters, Bennet, Mary and Margaret.


Here is no Altar Peice.

In the Body.
4. On a Neat Monument, on the N.wall. (Gu. a ? between 3 leopards’ (or talbots’?) heads couped & gardt. arg.). M.S. Edvardi PETTIT, A.M. Hujus et Vicina Parochiae de Sybertswell Vicary, qui Susannam Stephani PILCHER (Filiam uxorem duxit; ex qua nati suut ei quatnor Liberi, viz: Johannes, Maria, Edvardus et Elisabetha. Quorum, tres posteriors superstites reliquit. Obijt 20 Juni Anno Do. 1709. Etatisque sud 55.

5. On a Flat Stone. Here lieth the Body of Margaret JENKIN, wife of Thomas Jenkin, who died August the 4^th 1616.

This Church, which is very small, consists only of The Chancell and Body. It has no Steeple, and only one very small Bell, which hangs in a Loft at the West End. It has no Inscription. I imagine, that, formerly, this, and Another, used to hang, without Doors, in the West Wall; it being continued a little higher than the roof, and having two Arched holes through it.

6. It is a Vicarage. In the Gift of the Archbishop. It was dedicated to St Pancras – The Present Vicar, viz. 1758, is the Revd. Mr Thomas RYMES – it is united to Sybertswould.

7. Near ye Church (on a Spot of Ground, now taken into Waldershare Park) abt. the year 1760, were many Urns, Paters, etc. dug up – some of them, I am told, were carried to Waldershare, and are, now, in ye possession of Mr HOLTON, the Gard’ner there.

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