All Saints Heritage Trail
As we move further down the chapel towards the altar we will see on the North wall the large and impressive Karkaredg Memorial. This dates from 1639 and shows Thomas and his wife Anna dressed in puritan costume of the period and kneeling in prayer. In his will, Thomas left £3.00 a year (no small sum 300 years ago) for the supply of clothing to two poor widows in the parish.
Looking down Holy Name Chapel towards the altar
with the Karkaredg Memorial on the top left
The Karkaredg Memorial.
The inscription reads as follows:
Sacred to the Memory of Thomas Karkaredg, the only son of Gervase Karkaredg, Gentleman, and Mary, daughter of George Hills of Eggerton near Godmersham, Gentleman.
Who, after he had lived with his wife Anna (the daughter of Arthur Franklyn of Wye, Gentleman) most lovingly for almost fifty years, without any family, passed away from this life on the 1st December 1639, aged 72 years.
"This mark (slight though it be) of her love for her buried husband has his most sorrowing relict caused to be erected to him whose loss was most deservedly regretted.
"reader do thou imitate him in life, in feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and to that end leaving bequests in perpetuity an imperishable reward. "Sooner or later every one' urn is shaken, i.e., everyone's turn to die must come."
It will be noted in the photograph that below the monument is a black slab with an inscription which seems to connect the family of Franklyn into which he married with that of Gilbert Innes one of the clergy of the church. The inscription reads:
Near this marble lieth the body of WALTER FRANKLYN, Gent ,who died the 23rd of Septr. 1758 aged 68 years. Also Jane, his wife, daughter of the Rev. Gilbert Innes, Formerly Minister of this Parish who died the 26th of May 1754 aged 56 years.
The second interesting memorial is a small brass strip set into the floor at the right front of the altar. This is to Richard Beeston, clerk, his wife Elizabeth and their 7 children. Once again the costume is in the Puritan style of the mid 1600s.
The middle of the 3 stained glass windows is called The St Peter & St Paul Window. It was made in about 1872 and has 5 panels showing events in the life of St Peter and St Paul.
The St Peter & St Paul Window
The stained glass window on the right is called the Canon Joy Window. It was made in 1904 in memory of Canon Samuel Joy who was Vicar of Maidstone between 1897 and
The Canon Joy Window
At the far end of the chapel is a small altar containing a biblical tryptic.
The altar of Holy Name Chapel
Altar tryptic
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