Northfleet, St.Botolph – belfry tower. The church was closed but Kent Archaeological Society have published Mis for Northfleet St.Botolph. The tablet for Henry HEATH, father of the settler John Henry HEATH, reads:

Marble tablet with draped urn, etc: Sacred to the memory of Henry HEATH Esqre late of Orme House in this Parish who departed this life on the 28th of August 1843 Aged 73 Years. And whose mortal remains are deposited in vault near the entrance to the belfry Tower in this Church. If the most unsullied integrity of conduct throughout a long and well spent life combined with the warmest feelings of affection and friendship entitled a man to the veneration and esteem of his family, friends, and acquaintance few men could compete with the lamented deceased and it is the greatest consolation that his sorrowing family can now experience under the irreparable loss they have sustained by his death to record the virtues he so eminently displayed whilst living. "Most justly dost Thou claim affection’s tear/and mourning friends weep mourning o’er thy bier/But calm religion with her soothing voice/ Counsels the mourners rather to rejoice/Since God in mercy/To bless Thee with a glorious recompense".

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