Some Monumental Inscriptions of West Langdon Church

Some Monumental Inscriptions of West Langdon Church, noted by Rev Bryan Faussett in 1759. Also some Monumental Inscriptions  Noted by Zechariah Cozens about 1795, added 10th October 2008. Kindly typed up for the website by Pat Tritton.

1. This Church is desolate; The Walls only being now standing. It was very small, and consisted only of the Chancell and Body. In the Middle of the Area, or Floor (which is coverd with Earth and Grass) I discovered a Flat black Marble Gravestone, with ye following imperfect Inscription. Here lieth the …. of Robert DUNCAN, who lived at Langdon Abbey. He …………/ 1630.

2. The Inhabitants told Me they had often seen another flat Stone, somewhere in ye Chancell, in memory of Sr. Timothy THORNHILL; but that it was now cover’d with Stones and Rubbish which had fallen from the Walls. The Inhabitants still bury in ye Church Yard.

3. There is very little of The Abbey, wch. was in this Parish, now standing; but, by ye old Foundations, it appears to have been pretty large.

4. The Farm House seems to be built out of its Ruins.

5. Philpot, Fol.210, tells us that "it was founded by Sr. Wm. de AUBERVILLE of Westenhanger, Knt. in the Time of RICHARD ye 1st in Honour of St. Mary and St Thomas ye Martyr, of Canterbury, and filled with Canons Praemonstratenses."

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Also some Monumental Inscriptions  Noted by Zechariah Cozens about 1795, added 10th October 2008

6. From East Langdon we set out for West Langdon, the ruins of whose Church we discovered in the corner of a field, about two miles and an half to the North-west of the last described church. Its remains are considerable, clearly pointing out that it originally consisted of an aile, and a chancel; the walls which are standing about twenty feet high, are so covered with ivy, that the few windows and doors which it had are hardly discernable, though they appear to be of Saxon architecture: the whole makes a very picturesque object.

Epitaphs.
7. On a plain stone, in the midst of the ruins, about the center of the aile, is remaining: 1619 …../ ……/ Years.

8. On a plain grave-stone, at the West side of the church yard: Here Lieth the Body of Richard BROCKMAN who departed this Life July 27th 1762, Aged 26 Years. Weep not my Tender Parents/Dear for I am only Sleeping/Here my Debts are paid/my Grave you See Prepare/For death and Follow me.

9. The church-yard is inclosed, and appears still to be the burial place of the inhabitants of this parish; though there are not any other memorials remaining.

10. This Parish is but small, though it could once boast an abbey of the order of Praemonstratenses: founded by Sir William de AUBERVILLE Knt. about the year of 1190; and valued at its dissolution at £56.6s.9d. per annum. There are some few remains of the structure at a small distance to the Eastward of the church.

11. The soil and prospects in this Parish are much the same as in the last described.

12. The Living is a Curacy, and the Church is dedicated to St. (blank).

13. Patron: The Archbishop. 1795. Incumbent: Thomas DELANOY.
Valuation £16.0s.0d.

The next Parish that we have to visit in this Deanery is Coldred.

Index of Names

NamesBROCKMAN 8
de AUBERVILLE 5, 10
DELANOY 13
DUNCAN 1
THORNHILL 2

Tithe Apportionment for West Langdon

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West Langdon Tithe award schedule - 29th January 1841 Information provided by Pam Jones Back to West Langdon Maps etc Owner Occupier No. Description Cultivation Quantities Rector Sheet 1 Edmund    Brown Richard    Coleman Edward    Darby John Minet   Fector Esq William   Garside Incumbent of  the Parish of    Guston Sheet 2 Joseph    Fitall William    Chandler Richard    Coleman Richard    Chandler George    Castle Robert    Morris John    Morris Richard    Dixon John    Ash William    Garside Richard    Allen William    Garside William  Garside & Richard   Coleman 1 2 3 4 5 6 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 7 8 9 10 11 12 18 13 House & Yard Church Field Garden Part of   Church Field Garden Cottage & Yard Garden Part of Small Shots Cottage & Yard Cottage & Garden Cottage & Garden Cottage & Yard Cottage & Garden Cottage & Garden Stringers Meadow Garden The Six Acres Cottage & Garden West Langdon Farm Lower Meadow The Hammel The Two Acres &    Above the Carvet Cats Hay Shaw in Cats Hay Private Roads The Five Yards     Part of Small Shots Homestead Arable Garden --- --- Garden Arable --- Garden Garden --- Garden Garden Meadow Garden Arable Garden Homestead Meadow Meadow Arable Arable Coppice Coppice Arable 0.0.  7 2.1.17 0.3. 9 0.0. 9 3.1. 2 0.0. 5 0.0.  7 0.0.12 0.1.35 0.4. 0 0.2.20 0.0.13 0.0. 2 0.1. 7 0.0. 5 2.2. 6 0.0.23 2.2.34 6.1.11 0.0.26 0.0.24 0.2.30 0.1.38 5.3.13 15.3.15 0.2. 8  0.0.22 23.2.30 1.0. 8 1. 9. 0 0. 1. 0 0. 4. 4 0. 1. 0 0. 3. 0 0.14. 4 1.19. 6 0. 1. 6 7.15. 9 0. 7. 9 Owner Occupier No. Description Cultivation Quantities Rector Incumbent of  the Parish of    Guston Incumbent of  the Parish of   West Cliff Priscilla    Pearce John    Preble John &  Christopher    Phipps Thomas  Chapman  & William Garside Isaac  Hambrook  & William Garside Richard    Dixon George     Goldsack John Morris & William  Garside George    Goldsack Richard    Rogers John    Preble John &  Christopher    Phipps 14 15 130 21 22 23 24 36 37 38 39 131 Cottage & Garden Cottage & Yard Garden The Old Place The Three Yards Little Close Little North Down Goldsacks Field Cottage & Garden Cottage & Garden Part of the Hundred Acres Part of the Lark Field Garden --- Garden Meadow Arable Meadow Arable Arable Garden Garden Pasture Arable 0.0.16 0.0. 2 0.0.20 0.0.22 0.2. 0 0.3.29 1.1.29 0.3.13 1.3.36 1.2.15 0.0.36 1.3.11 0.1. 9 1.3.30 0.1.13 0. 1 .0 0.1. 3 0. 9. 6 0. 3. 7 0.16. 9 0.16. 3 0. 3. 0 Benjamin   Taylor     Senior Sheet 3 Sheet 4 Richard    Coleman 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 66 67 68 69 70 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 102 98 99 100 101 103 104 96 64 65 71 106 105 97 Langdon Abbey Farm Lodge & Yard Stack Yard Garden Garden Garden The Chapel Yard The Well Pasture Orchard Clay Pits The Hemplands Meadow Orchard Orchard The Hemplands Carvets The Hemplands Pasture Further Meadow Middle Meadow The Walk Firs adjoining Walk Wood Part of The Roughs The Great Meadow Plantation Sheep Close Part of Small Shots Palm Tree Close The Hundred Acres Cane Wood Cane Close Shaw in Cane Close The Lark Field     & Abbey Field Shaw in The Lark Field    & Abbey Field The Abbey Field Hole Wingate Carvet Muxton's Hole Part of The Roughs Shaw in The Roughs Shaw in The Roughs Beech Close Shaw in Beech Close Shaw in Beech Close Shaw in Beech Close Downs Close The Leeze Shaw in The Leeze Marten Gorse Marten Gorse Martin Firs Martin Firs Part of Marten Gorse Part of Shaw adjoining    Martin Firs Part of Sutton Down The Abbey Down &    Eighteen Acres Waste adjoining    Walk Wood Part of Sutton Down Part of Sutton Down The 18 Acres Gorse Part of Sutton Down Part of Sutton Down North Down Shaw in North Down Private Roads Part of Small Shots Part of Small Shots Part of Bonington Part of Bonington Hopley's Close Private Roads Homestead --- --- Garden --- --- Meadow --- Orchard &  Pasture Meadow --- Orchard &  Pasture Orchard Coppice Pasture Meadow Meadow Wood Firs Pasture Meadow Firs Pasture Arable Arable Arable Wood Arable Coppice Arable Coppice Coppice Coppice Coppice Arable Coppice Coppice Meadow Coppice Coppice Coppice Pasture Arable Coppice Furze --- Firs --- Furze Coppice Arable Arable Waste Arable Arable Furze Arable Waste Arable Coppice --- Arable Arable Arable Arable Arable --- 2.0.37 0.0.23 0.1.20 0.2. 0 0.0.27 0.0.24 2.1.36 1.3.22 0.2.27 2.2.12 1.0.26 1.0.30 0.1. 7 0.1.11 2.0. 5 10.3.33 8.2. 7 3.2.28 0.1.35 1.2.30 9.2.13 0.0. 2 17.2.32 13.0. 3 8.3.25 73.3.31 12.2.34 26.0. 5 2.0.11 77.2. 6 0.0.31 0.2. 2 0.3.23 1.1.21 24.2.37 1.0. 8 0.0.30 17.1.38 0.0.31 0.1.10 0.0.27 21.2.11 62.1. 1 1.0.26 0.3.33 1.1.19 3.3.33 4.2.26 0.2. 1 0.0.23 42.0.28 39.1.39 1.1. 1 26.0.17 16.3. 4 3.0.17 18.1.33 0.1.10 27.1.  0 0.2.31     1.2.13 603.3.35 5.1.13 2.3. 2 4.2.32 0.3. 5 2.3. 8  0.0.  6 16.1.26 6. 0. 0 6. 4. 9 Owner Occupier No. Description Cultivation Quantities Rector Benjamin   Taylor     Senior Sheet 5 Benjamin    Taylor     Junior Joseph    Fitall George    Goldsack William   Chandler Richard    Greaves John    Morris 107 108 109 110 111 112 116 113 114 115 117 118 Hopper's Meadow Lower Chandlers Mdw Upper Chandlers Mdw Lower Meadow Part of Upper Meadow Part of Upper Meadow Garden Cottage & Yard Garden Shop Cottage & Garden Cottage & Garden Meadow Meadow Meadow Meadow Meadow Meadow Garden --- Garden --- Garden Garden 0.2.32 0.3.20 0.2.18 2.0.30 0.3.26 1.0.34 0.1. 0 0.0.26 2.2.  6 0.0.11 0.0.21 0.0.32 0.0. 1 0.0.18 0.0.31 0. 9. 9 0.12.10 0. 1. 6 0. 1 .3 0. 2 .0 Owner Occupier No. Description Cultivation Quantities Rector Benjamin   Taylor     Senior Catherine    Witherden Rev Edward  George    Boys    (Glebe) William    Brown Richard   Fitall Thomas    Chadwick Samuel    Dixon Thomas     Matcham Robert    Morris John    Morris John    Ash William  Hammond & John Ash William    Garside 119 120 121 122 123 124 16 17 125 126 127 128 129 19 20 132 Cottage & Yard Garden Cottage & Garden Cottage & Garden Cottage & Garden Cottage & Garden Garden Garden The Closes The Hemplands Barn & Yard Private Roads Cottage & Garden The Gore The Church Yard The Fostall Public Roads --- Garden Garden Garden Garden Garden Garden Garden Arable Meadow Homestead --- Garden Arable Pasture Common --- 0.0.10 0.0.18 0.0.28 0.0. 8 0.0.15 0.0.13 0.0.18 0.0.24 0.0.23 9.1. 3 0.2.31 0.0. 8 0.0. 7 9.0. 9 0. 9. 0 4.0. 6 0.1.23 0.3.34 9.0. 2 0. 1. 3 0. 0. 6 0. 1. 0 0. 1 .0 0. 1 .0 0. 1. 6 0. 1. 6 3. 1. 3 0. 0. 6 1.10. 6 Whilst every care has been taken in transcribing information from old records which in themselves are prone to error or  misinterpretation, visitors to this site need to recognise that there will be errors. 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