Lenton
St Anthony

Monuments and Memorials

Chancel

The Stretton memorial is located on the south wall of the chancel. It is of light coloured marble set on a slightly larger black marble panel. The inscription reads:

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
GEORGE STRETTON,
LATE OF NOTTINGHAM
DIED DECEMBER VIITH. MDCCCXXXIII AGED LXII YEARS.
ALSO ONE SON AND ONE DAUGHTER
GEORGE BURBAGE STRETTON,
DIED MARCH VITH. MDCCCXVII AGED XXVII YEARS.
ELIZABETH STRETTON ,
DIED JULY VITH. MDCCCXVIII AGED XXVI YEARS.

Nave

Prior to the restoration of the church in 1883-4 the nave contained a number of monuments. Godfrey (1884) provides a record of their inscriptions:

‘There were formerly several floor-stones in the chancel to various members of the Garland family, but these were probably removed when the church was repaved in 1807.

On the south wall of the now roofless nave, near to the west end, is a large oval tablet, thus inscribed :—

In Memory of George Blanchard the Son of
John and Ann Blanchard1
who departed this life
the 18th day of July, 1805,
Aged 8 years and 6 months.

The inscriptions on the slabs in the floor of the nave are as follows:—

Here Lieth the Body of
RICHARD NORRIS
who Departed this Life
Octr 10th 1726.

Here Lieth the Body of
Elizabeth ye Wife of
RlCHd Norris, who Departed
this Life, April 20, 1731.

Here lieth the Body of Ann
Chamberlain, Daughter of John and
Martha Chamberlain, who Departed
this Life Febry 5th, 1748
Aged 26 years.

MARTHA CHAMBERLAIN, 1753.

JOHN CHAMBERLAIN, 1766.

William Norris died March 10th, 1788, aged 75 years.

John, Son of
Thos Needham, Gent,
and Elizabeth his Wife
of Sandbeach, in Cheshire
died April..........
Aged 3 years &......months.

(1) An inscription upon a floor-stone beneath adds that the above-named John Blanchard was Veterinary Surgeon in the Third, or King’s Own Regiment of Light Dragoons. The regiment was at that time quartered at the barracks in Nottingham Park. The Park was then extra-parochial, but by ancient custom those who died within the limits of the Park or Standard Hill were interred at Lenton. Numerous entries of the burials of soldiers who died at the barracks are to be found in the parish registers.'