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               Some Monumental Inscriptions of Northbourne Church,  Noted by Rev Bryan Faussett noted 1759

Kindly typed up for the website by Pat Tritton

In the Chancell.
1. On a Flat Stone. Here lieth the Bodie of Anne the Daughter of Edward & Margaret NICOLS, Vicar of this Place, bapt. Aug. 24 1632. Bur. Jun. 26 1634.

In the Body.
2. On a Flat Stone. Here lieth the Body of Richard HARVIE, who lived at Eastrye & was brought from thence hither, and buried the 9^th Day of September Anno 1675 aged 75 Yeares.

In the South Isle, or Transept.
3. Against the S. Wall is a superb Monument, of black and white Marble; on the Altar of which, lie the Figg. at full Length of *Sr Edwyn SANDYS, and his Lady. It has no Inscription, tho there is a Table of Black Marble in the Middle of the Monument, for that Purpose – and about it are the following Coats. ( * Son to ye Arch Bishop of York)
[3 shields in line, the middle one drawn larger].
I. SANDYS (written), [¼ly RAWSON imp. HAMMOND of St Albans (3.75, Nonington).
II. Or, a fesse dancety betw. 3 + tlets fitchy gu. (Sandys). ¼ly. Per fesse gu. & arg. a battlemented tower countercharged (RAWSON). imp. ¼ly of 12. The colours of these Quarterings not distinguishable (B.F’s note).
1). A Λ betw. 3 bulls’ hds. caboshed. 2). A – dancety. 3 & 12). A \. 4). A + paty, in chief a roundel. 5). A lion rampt. 6). A Λ betw. 3 chaplets. 7 & 10). An ostrich(?) passt. 8). A garb. 9). A – betw. 3 crescents. 11). 3 Lions’ hds. erased. III. A Lion rampt. in a border vair (SCRIMSHAW) imp. Sandys (written).

This Church consists of the Chancell, Body, and 2 Transepts, or Isles. The Tower stands in the Middle of the Building, and is cap’t with a low Spire; in it hang 3 Bells, wch. I cd. not get at.

4. In the Church Yard are 2 Altar Tombs, not legible and Headstones in Memory of FRIEND, GOLDFINCH, HOYLE and WYBORNE.

This Church was dedicated to St. AUSTIN. It is a Vicarage & in ye Patronage of the Arch Bishop.

5. *It is annex’t to Sholden. The present Vicar is Mr George SHOCKLEDGE 1759. He was succeeded by Thomas HUTCHESON 1772.
[*these 2 lines and the final § are added in thicker writing].

6. There is, at this Day, a Place, here, call’d St. Aus’tine’s Walk. EADBALD, son of ETHELBERT, the 5^th (and 1^st Xtian) King of Kent, had a Palace here; out of ye supposed Ruins of which, 2 very large Corbells of Stone, were in July 1774 dug, and presented to Me, by My Friend Richd. SANDYS Esq. (whose Family are the Possessors of Northbourne Court, where these Ruins are). One of them undoubtedly represents the Head of ETHELBERT, in whose Reign (viz: A.D. 597) St. Austine landed in Thanet and, the other, the Head of St. Austine himself. They seem to have serv’d as Imposts, to support some Arch, or Peice of Timber; and, were placed, about 15 Feet high, at ye West End of the Remains, of, what, is thought, formerly, to have been a Chapell, but which, for Time immemorial has had ye Appearance of an old, & long-neglected Pigeon House.

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