South Leverton
All Saints

Monuments and Memorials

Chancel

Between the sanctuary and the choir stalls, five ledger stones commemorate members of the Flint family. They are laid in a row and as there is no space between them they might possibly have been arranged so during the 1868 restoration of the chancel or the 1897/8 restoration. From North to South they are:

SACRED
to the Memory of
SAMUEL FLINT
who died
May 23rd 1830
Aged 75 years
SACRED
to the memory of
ANN
the wife of
SAMUEL FLINT
who died
April 30th 1844
Aged 88 years
SACRED
to the memory of
HANNAH
the daughter of
SAMUEL AND ANN FLINT
who died
January 25th 1851 aged 62 years
SACRED
to the memory of
SAMUEL
-- son of
SAMUEL & ANN FLINT
who died
September 2nd 18--
Aged 11 years

(-- = worn and indecipherable)

SACRED
to the memory of
Mary, wife of John Otter
and daughter of
SAMUEL & ANN FLINT
who died
August 11th 1851
Aged 60 years

There are also two brass plaques in the chancel commemoration servicemen. (Details are given on the War Memorials page.) One is to Arthur Frederick Clarke (son of the Vicar of the parish), the other to Colonel John William Akerman Morgan.

South aisle

On the wall a steel plaque in gothic script reads:

In MEMORY OF
George H Clayton
Who Died
Dec 7th 1898
Aged 21 years
A token of esteem from his Retford friends

Tower Recess

Several ledger stones, most indecipherable in whole or part. These are, as in the chancel, very closely laid and may have been removed from elsewhere. They may represent a part of the “lost” memorials lamented in the local newspaper in the 1930s. The removal of these memorials took place when the nave and chancel received a wood block floor in 1878.

As far as they can be deciphered, they read as follows (hypens indicate indecipherable words or sections):

TO THE
memory of
Jane, the wife of….

WILLIAM KEYWORTH
who departed this life
the 30th day of Decemr
In the year of our
LORD 1836
AGED 85 YEARS.

SACRED
to the memory of
JOHN KITCHIN

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Vicar of this Parish
25 years
who died -------
1710
Aged – Years

This length of incumbency would only fit John Charlesworth, vicar from 1699-1725, but he was obviously alive in 1710 and had been vicar for only eleven years then. Puzzling.

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THOMAS MOSMAN GENT
obit APRIL YE 13TH 1711

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An indecipherable stone with a small amount of medieval Latin script remaining probably dates from the 15th or early 16th century.