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list with £1 each. Lower down, we are told that
"Robert Petman" contributed 2s. 6d. A monumental stone in the
floor of this chancel informs us that "Robert Pettman" was a
brewer in Ickham, who died in 1685, aged seventy years.* The entry
recording the delivery of the sum collected to the authorised receiver
is very quaint: "Colected for this Brefe in the parishe of Ikham by
Mr. Lee, curat, and John Word and Robert Beake churchwardens of ye said
parish, the sume of five pounds fifteene shillings and five pence, and wee
say colected towards ye Redemsihon of ye captives in Argier the sume
above writen, and paide it the 11th of March 1670 unto Mr Peter Hardes,
Receuer; in witness hearof we have set our handes." The curate
himself, Samuel Lee, contributed 2s. 6d., Mr. Moyes 5s., Madame Mansel
5s.
The only other monumental stone in this chancel floor
commemorates Admiral Charles Knowler, † who married the heiress of
John Paramore, and obtained with her a house at Bramling, which Paramore
had built. The Admiral died there in 1788; and therein also died his
widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Knowler, four years later. The Admiral seems
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whose wife,
Elizabeth Jeffery, brought to him in dowry the manor of Well-court, in
this parish, which they sold to Robert Daines.
THE SOUTH TRANSEPT.
This is called the Baa or Bay Chancel, and it formerly
belonged to the owner of the Bay Farm Estate. From its eastern wall a
recess for an altar projects into the churchyard. This projection is
clearly an afterthought, as it partially blocks the light from the
westernmost chancel window, which was already somewhat crowded by the
transept's east wall. On the exterior, the east wall of the recess is
carried up, above the level of the wall plate of the transept, and
terminates in a pointed gable. In it there is a window, of three
* Here lieth ye body of Robert Pettman late
of this parish, Brewer, who left issue 5 sons and one daughter hee
departed this life ye 8th day of June in ye yeare of our Lord 1685 aged
seuenty yeares.
† In memory of Admiral Charles Knowler, who died
March 26, 1788, aged 81 years
Also of Elizabeth his wife, who died 20th Jany 1782, aged 77 years. |