In the Lady Chapel, immediately to the North of the Chancel is a remarkable and unusual tomb to two generations of the Fagge family. At first, it seems most strange to see two men together on the top of a tomb until it becomes clear that they were Father and Son. On the front of the tomb is the following inscription:

Dedicated to the Memmorie
of Iohn Fagge Esq: sonne of Iohn Fagge of Rye in
the covnty of Svssex Gent: who married one of ye
davghters and heires of Clement Cobb of Canterbvry
in the covnty of Kent Gent: by whome he had issve
two sonnes and fower davghters. He departed this
life the 22 day of Ivne Anno Domino 1639

Here also lyeth interred the body of Iohn Fagge of
Rye in the covnty of Svssex Gent: sonne of ye above-
said Iohn Fagge who married Elizabeth davghter of Barnabe
Hodgson of Framfield in the covnty of Svssex Gent by
whome he had issve one sonne & one davghter He departed
this life the 25 day of Ivly Anno Domini 1646

His svrviving sonne cavsed this
monvment to be erected

Given that the tomb is contemporary, it certainly gives a very clear picture of what the well dressed "Man about Town" would be wearing at the time of Charles I.

In the Chancel against the South Wall is a wooden memorial to the members of the Parish who died in WWI. How nice it was to see a wreath from the local Scout troop hanging beneath it.

IN MEMORY OF

Walter Edmund Beard
Charles John Perigo
Percy Edwards
Lionel Webb
Percy Smith
John Hunt
Percy Poole
Cyril Webb
Harry Pellatt
Sydney James West

Who fell in the Great War 1914 - 1918

In the North aisle is a memorial to the men who fell in the Second World War, which reads:

BRENZETT WITH
SNARGATE & SNAVE
!939 - 1945

To the Glory of God
also in memory of those
who laid down their lives

George Percy Edwards
George Wheeler

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