TQ5243 : Sidney Chapel
taken 8 years ago, near to Penshurst, Kent, England
The chapel’s present design dates from 1822. The ceiling
is painted with the family’s heraldic shields, hung on
sinuous trees. Memorials in the chapel include:
The top half of a recumbent figure in chain mail, Sir Stephen de Penchester (d.1299), first recorded owner of Penshurst Place.
Altar-tomb of Sir William Sidney (1482-1554) to whom King Edward VI gave Penshurst Place in 1552.
A brass to Margaret Sidney, sister of Sir Philip Sidney.
A brass cross to Thomas Bullayen, brother of Anne Boleyn, 2nd wife of Henry VIII.
A wall monument to Robert Sidney, 4th Earl of Leicester (d.1702), his wife and nine of his children who died in infancy.
A marble tomb chest to Philip Sidney, 5th Earl of Leicester.
A brass to Thomas Yden, who died in 1514, his wife Agnes and daughter Joan.
A leger stone to Field Marshall Viscount Gort VC, GCB, CBE, DSO, MVO, MC (d.1946), commander of British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk 1939.
A wall memorial to Philip Sidney, 1st Viscount de L’Isle VC KG (d.1991), member of Churchill’s post-war Cabinet; 1961 Governor General of Australia.
There has been a chapel on this site since Anglo-Saxon times. The earliest record of a Church is 1115, most of the church is C13-C15.
Rebuilt by Sir George Gilbert Scott 1864 - 5.
Grade I listed. Link