Hatchments in Church
Post date: Feb 08, 2018 8:35:5 PM
Hatchments: This kind of memorial seems to be restricted mainly to the British Isles, Belgium, and the Netherlands. In England and Belgium the hatchment, or funeral escutcheon, as it is sometimes called, is diamond-shaped, made of wood or canvas in a black-edged frame; on it are emblazoned the arms of the deceased. Kent has 344 hatchments; Margate has 20. West Peckham has 9. Earliest in Kent from 1650 latest 1944.
Extract from HATCHMENTS IN BRITAIN VOL 5 Pub 1985
General editor Peter Summers. Kent by R. Bond. Pages 83/84
WATERINGBURY
All black background
Argent a fess between six annulets gules (Lucas), impaling, Argent on a chevron engrailed azure between martlets sable three cinque foils or (Heyman)
Crest: From a ducal coronet or a demi-dragon gules
Mantling: Gules and argent.
Motto: Ne timeas nisi Deum
For Matthias Prime Lucas, Lord Mayor of London, who m. Polly Heyman, and d. 2 Jan 1848. She d. 1841
(Pedigree in vestry of Church)
2. All black background
On a lozenge surmounted by a gold knot
Qly, 1st, Argent two bars gules, on a canton gules a lion of England
(Lancaster), 2nd Gules three stags’ heads cabossed of (Dering). 3rd, Azure six lions rampant three, two and one argent (Leybourne) , 4th Argent a saltire engrailed sable (Wootton)
In pretence : Argent a fess between six annulets gules (Lucas)
Motto: In coelo quies
For Mary Frances, dau. of Matthias Prime Lucas , who m. Samuel Lancaster, and d.14 Aug. 1858 (B.L.G. 5th ed. G.M.)