Selling & local life · 1840 / 1871
He gave silver. They gave glass.
Selling parish remembered a churchwarden in a window.
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.
Sources & research notes · 1 records
The KAS1901 survey distinguishes John’s1840 plate at Selling from his son Edward’s1871 gift at Boughton-under-Blean. The missing older Selling plate preceded John’s gift. The reported father-son link is explicit in the survey. Physical objects not inspected.
Follow the evidence
- Church Plate in KentKent Archaeological Society · historical journal article / local church record transcription · accessed 2026-10-07