Description

TQ 64 SW PEMBURY OLD CHURCH ROAD

5/398 Chest tomb approx 1m south
of the chancel of the Old
Church of St Peter
GV II

Chest tomb. Dated 1803 in memory of Ann West. White marble on a brick
plinth. Rectangular in plan with fluted corner pilasters and panelled sides
containing oval plaques. Moulded base and flat lid with moulded edges. The
southern plaque is inscribed with Roman serif upper and lower case lettering
and records the death of Ann West of Bayhall in 1803.

Apparently Ann West was so afraid of being buried in a trance that she left
instructions that, when she was buried, the lid was to be left off her coffin
and one end of the tomb was to be left open, and her butler was instructed to
bring food and drink every day for twelve months in case she woke up. The
east end was open until 1947.

Source Mary Standen. Pembury in the Past (1984), p.23.

Listing NGR: TQ6268442960

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26532864

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)