BELLS
The belfry contains five bells and a board placed there by a vicar of 1739 bears the jingle;-
It is not good to hear men wrangle.
It is not good to hear bells jangle.
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MONUMENTS
The monuments within the church are mainly of the last few generations of the Guest family. Two are the work of
John Bacon who fashioned Chatham's monument. One is in memory of Catherine Willett and
depicts a draped woman sitting by a fire. The other is a portrait of Samuel Martin.
The monument to Admiral Thomas Russell, who died in 1824, depicts a cannon, gun carriage and flag. Ivor Guest,
the first Baron Wimborne, who died a few months before the outbreak of World War I in 1914, was sculptured in his
robes with a coronet at his feet on an alter tomb by his daughter. A white tablet on the wall depicts two angels in
memory of Montague Guest who died while staying with his friend Edward VII at Sandringham. The statue of
Nan Guest, sombre-faced and with her hand on a bare-footed child, stands in one of the chapels.
Other monuments within the church are to a boy named William Rodney.
