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Latitude: 51.1629 / 51°9'46"N
Longitude: 0.3243 / 0°19'27"E
OS Eastings: 562611
OS Northings: 142972
OS Grid: TQ626429
Mapcode National: GBR NQZ.4S8
Mapcode Global: VHHQF.K1SC
Plus Code: 9F32587F+5P
Entry Name: Chest Tomb Approximately 1 Metres South of the Chancel of the Old Church of St Peter
Listing Date: 24 August 1990
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1239918
English Heritage Legacy ID: 437941
ID on this website: 101239918
Location: St Peter's Church, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN2
County: Kent
District: Tunbridge Wells
Civil Parish: Pembury
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Church of England Parish: Pembury St Peter
Church of England Diocese: Rochester
Tagged with: Chest tomb
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
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