Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26546115

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