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Latitude: 51.1628 / 51°9'46"N
Longitude: 0.3242 / 0°19'27"E
OS Eastings: 562608
OS Northings: 142966
OS Grid: TQ626429
Mapcode National: GBR NQZ.4S9
Mapcode Global: VHHQF.K1RD
Plus Code: 9F32587F+4M
Entry Name: Peto Monument Approximately 2.5 Metres South of the Chancel of the Old Church of St Peter
Listing Date: 24 August 1990
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1254446
English Heritage Legacy ID: 437943
ID on this website: 101254446
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: Monument
TQ 64 SW PEMBURY OLD CHURCH ROAD
5/400 Peto monument approx 2.5m
south of the chancel of
the Old Church of St Peter
GV II
Monument. Dated 1889 in memory of Sir Samuel Morton Peto in 1889. Sandstone
ashlar. Double grave surrounded by low area walls and moulded coping and
large upright double headstone with curvilinear shaped double head. Both
heads have low relief carved panels, the left one featuring mourning figures
in classical robes and the right one featuring angels with the legend "He is
risen". Decorative frieze below and below that 2 plaques, both with guttae
below. Scrolled wings both sides. The inscriptions in Roman serif upper and
lower case lettering and records the deaths of Sir Samuel Morton Peto in 1889
and his widow Sarah Ainsworth in 1892.
Sir Samuel Morton Peto, was a prominent Non-conformist and, as an M.P., was
responsible for the passing of an Act to allow Non-conformist ministers to
bury anyone in a churchyard and, it is said, he was the first person to be
buried under this Act.
Source Mary Standen. Pembury in the Past (1984), p.22.
Listing NGR: TQ6268442960
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