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Memorials inside Canterbury St. Mary Magdalen's Church, Kent, England

In the church are the following monuments and inscriptions


The south aisle

At the east end of a mural tablet for Mr. Edward Dering, late of Doddington, obt. 1786; arms, Or, on a saltier, sable, a crescent for difference.

Another, shewing that in a vault near, are deposited the remains of Richard Barham, Esq. obt. 1784, his wife and daughter's obt. 1781; arms, Argent, on a fess, gules, a fleur de lis and two martlets, or, between three bears passant, sable.

A mural monument for Henry Saunders, counsellor at law, of this parish, who married Jane, eldest daughter of Thomas Paramor, Esq. of Fordwich, by whom he had an only daughter and heir Anne, married to John, son and heir of Thomas Marsh, gent. of Tapton, in Denton. He died in 1637; arms, Parted per chevron, sable and argent, three elephants heads counterchanged as the field.

A mural monument near the pulpit, for the Paramores.

Several memorials for the Chandlers.


In the north aisle

A memorial for Noah Bolain and Elizabeth his wife; he died 1751; she died 1764; Noah their son, obt. 1764.

An elegant mural monument of rich sculpture, for John Whitfield, gent. who was buried with his grandfather and grandmother, John and Catherine, and his parents, Henry and Anne, under it. He married Rebecca, youngest daughter of Robert Jaques, formerly sheriff of this county. She died 1685; He was a liberal benefactor to this city, and the poor of it, by his Will; he died in 1691.

On a brass plate an inscription for Margaret Rook, obt. 1494.

A plain stone and memorials on it, for C. Packe, M. D. obt. 1749.

Maria Packe, daughter of Herbert Randolph, obt. 1772.

One for Susanna, wife of William Gray, obt. 1776; also for William Gray, obt. 1784, an inhabitant of this parish 66 years, and a member of the corporation 60; also for Martha. wife of Philip Castle, and daughter of William Gray, obt. 1788.

Mr. Somner says, there was in his time an inscription on a brass plate, for Sybell, widow of Libby Orchard, late of Monkton-court, in Thanet, obt. 1586.

In the windows of this church were formerly several shields of arms, long since destroyed.

In this register, which begins so late as the year 1634, are many burials in this church, of the Lovelaces, Nethersoles, Dennes, and Whitfields, and of Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Lightfoot, of this parish, in 1614, in the chancel near her deceased husband.


Edward Hasted, Canterbury: The churches within the city and suburbs, in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 11 (Canterbury, 1800), pp. 209-288 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol11/pp. 209-288.