I always love the calligraphy on C18/19 gravestones, too often ignored and unloved because outside the church. This guy was a military musician. Full marks to Bexley P.C.C. for looking after their gravestones to the extent of mending broken ones in an exemplary manner.
The only brass I know with this horn insignia, possibly that of a royal forester? forests had their own laws, and administering justice could be of great pecuniary advantage to those in charge, to say nothing of the rights of disposal of game and timber. the brass looks c15.
These dolphins, anchors,ropework and tackleblocks proclaim the 1859 tomb of vice admiral William Stanhope Lovell, who was made up to lieutenant for bravery at the battle of Trafalgar. He's in the new graveyard.
I have no idea what scene or saint is shown here; the girl on the left is saying "jesus" and there is an annunciation on the wall, but if anyone has any further light to shed please do.
north cray.kent c17 cast iron fireback royal arms…
German carvings of the adoration of the magi - later c16? - brought in by a magpie squire, one of those rectors with antiquarian leanings who made the dealers in "Wardour St. woodwork" so happy .
the oddness of this west front is exacerbated by the lack of any original fenestration or entry, it must have been crude in deed at first without the later arcading and pepperpots. the octagonal central tower was added in c.1380, the lower central portion was originally recessed between two turrets as at rochester, being filled in with a moved c14 window in the c18
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