Memorial · Kent
St Mary the Virgin, Selling
He gave silver to the church. The parish remembered him in a window.
The place and its story
He gave silver. They gave glass.
In 1840, John Neame gave Selling church a silver chalice, paten, flagon and alms-dish. His name and the year were recorded on the plate.
He lived at Selling Court and served for years as churchwarden. When he died in 1849, parishioners put up a stained-glass window and a tablet in his memory. The gifts went both ways.
Selling had older church plate before John’s gift. By 1901, the survey’s author could not establish what had happened to it. John’s silver was still listed. The earlier pieces had left a mystery.
His son Edward gave silver too, for Boughton-under-Blean church’s reopening in 1871. A different church, another gift. The same survey makes the family link explicit.
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He gave silver. They gave glass. ↗
Selling parish remembered a churchwarden in a window.
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- Church Plate in KentKent Archaeological Society · historical journal article / local church record transcription · accessed 2026-10-07
- Church of St Mary, Selling (NHLE 1343628)Historic England · official heritage listing · accessed 2026-10-07
- Sir Philip Neame VC biography and memorial listMemorials to Valour · secondary military memorial register · accessed 2026-10-07