left a daughter, Juliana, who possessed this advowson until her death. As she died without an heir the property went to the Crown. In 1377 King Edward III granted the advowson for the Church to the Abbey of Saint Mary Grace on Tower Hill, London. Except for a short break it continued with the Abbey until the Dissolution when it was granted by Henry VIII to the See of Canterbury. After a short time it was re-granted to the King. It had five other owners before being sold eventually to Multon Lambarde in 1793. The gift of the "living" still remains with the Lambarde family. The present patroness is Mrs Campbell, now living in Melrose, Scotland, a descendant of the late W.G. Lambarde Esquire.
   In the pavement of the Church are several tombs of the Lambe family (see list of Rectors bearing the family arms) of three lambs carrying flags at the slope. The carving of these is excellent, as is also that of the Lectern, which may well once upon a time have been a bed post. The east window is in memory of the Reverend Thomas Phelps who preached in Ridley Church for fifty years. There are no brasses. A reference in a will mentions a "Light of Saint Anne". James Winson, by will 1829, gave to the Rector and Churchwardens and their successors, £1,000, on trust to invest the same and apply the interest, or as much as should be sufficient in keeping in repair and renewing the tombs and gravestones of himself and family in the churchyard of this Parish, and to distribute the residue, if any, yearly in bread to the poor. The churchyard is believed to have been buried in for a thousand years.
   Ridley Registers commence in 1632. They open with the words – "I answere to many of the early entries of Baptisms etc." In them we read – "In the year of our Lord 1702 in the second yeare of ye reigne of Queen Anne ye 14th of March, Jane, wife of Wm. Selby of ye Mote at Ightham, Esquire, daughter to Mr. Henry Stacey, formerly Rector of this Church, did of her piety devote to ye service of God in ye said Parish Church,

one Paten and Silver Chalice for the Holy Communion." This Chalice is a fine Wine Cup of Charles I period with baluster stem and has the London hallmark of 1635 and the maker’s mark "R.W.". It is difficult to name the maker, as in many cases in the early period the name was not recorded, only the mark was used. On one side of the Cup is engraved: "The gift of Jane Selby, wife of William Selby, Esquire. Daughter of Henry Stacey who was Minister of this Church, 1703." On the opposite side is elaborately engraved the conjoined Coat of Arms of the Selby and Stacey families. It is interesting to note that the gift was made in 1703, but Henry Stacey died in 1647. Unfortunately, we cannot trace what happened to the Paten mentioned in the Register as being presented with the Chalice: the two silver Patens at present in use are dated 1845 and 1846, and it is not recorded who presented these.
   Also "in the year of our Lord, 1706, Bridget, the wife of Mr. John Ratis, Rector of this Church, did give a new Pulpit Cleath and Cleath for the cushion of the same." There is also a "True Terrier" (a true note of all landed property) of the Glebe of Ridley delivered 16th October, 1666, to the Chancellor of the Bishop, that states – "The house has kitchen, parlour, three butteries, three chambers, one barn and barnyard, a garden of four acres with codling trees, and orchard of a rood, a meadow with shaws of fives acres, a field once known as Barleydale – then as Parsonage Field – of eight acres, another of ten with a shaw of ten, another of seven with its shaw, and one other field known as Newlands of seven and a half acres. There is also a list of incumbents from 1562."
Inventory taken in the reign of Edward VI. 1547–1573
      One vestment of thread and twine of very 
         little value – very worn.
      Six bad Altar Cloths of linen.
      One bell.
      One Paten (gilt).