Essex Church Photographs by John Whitworth

This splendid detail of the monument to Sir Charles Montagu in the chancel, is a wonderfully carved depiction of him in his tent in an army encampment, with his musketeers by his side.

The inscription below the monument reads:

Heere lieth the Body of Y Worthy Knight

S. Charles Montagu; who died at his House

at Cranbrook in Essex in the parish of

Barking the 11 of September in Y yeere of

our Lorde Gpd 1625, being of Y

age of 61 yeares, who gave to

Y poore of Barking

forty pounds