page_title: St John the Baptist, Penshurst
section_title: North Aisle
hierarchical_section_title: St John the Baptist, Penshurst / Features / North Aisle
caption_attribution_description: English: St.John the Baptist's churchyard View by the south porch towards Leicester Square
context_page_description: St John the Baptist Church at Penshurst, Kent is a Grade I listed Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Rochester in England. Those buried or commemorated here include Knights, Earls, Viscounts, a Viceroy of India, a Governor-General of Australia, a Private Secretary to two Kings, two Field Marshals and two winners of the Victoria Cross. Through its courtiers, soldiers, statesmen, politicians or priests whose lives appear on memorials or through its changing architecture, brasses, carvings, effigies and windows, the church helps tell a country’s story through the eyes of single village.
context_section_description: The North Aisle was broadened in 1854–1855 to the designs of George Gilbert Scott. Its roof is scissor braced. Between the two windows are two brass tablets in memory of the Reverend George Richard Boissier (d. 1858), rector of Penshurst and Maria, his wife, of whom it is noted that she was the daughter of Richard Allnutt, who has his own tablet at the eastern end of the North Aisle. This is to the right of the window, before the screen separating the Vestry from the aisle. Richard Allnutt was a prosperous wine merchant who built a Palladian mansion at South Park, south west of the Penshurst, in the second half of the 18th century.
  At the North Aisle's western end, to the left of the first window is a memorial to Field Marshal Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge GCB, PC (1785 –1856), designed by Salvin and carved by Pfyffers, a Gothic tablet with a medallion. He served as Governor-general of India at the time of the First Anglo-Sikh War and was Commander-in-Chief of the Forces during the Crimean War.
caption: Churchyard in front of the porch is the Dole Table
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