ABSTRACT
St Andrew's Church in the seventeenth century provided ample space for such burial and commemoration. As a consequence of the Reformation, as Jonathan Finch has observed, wall space had been freed up as whitewashed interior surfaces now replaced the vibrant imagery of medieval wall paintings. Enabling both text designed to educate the assembled congregation, as well as funeral monuments, to be put into these spaces commemorating the dead for the future. Perpetual memory required funds for ongoing maintenance. These monuments also became the physical site where the distribution of charity gifts of bread and doles to the deserving poor might be carried out within the church and churchyard. The memory of the benefactor was perpetuated through these annual rituals of charitable giving. Here the dead could act as a perpetual godly householder who was a surrogate father to the deserving godly poor of the parish.
