This monument is dedicated to Charles Dixwell (d1591), his wife Abigail (d1635), and their five children William, Edgar, Humphrey, Basil, and Barbara. The style is very similar to the monument in the north aisle dedicated to Robert Price. It consists of a couple kneeling, with their children below.1

One family member John Dixwell the younger son of Edward (Edgar?) Dixwell, was raised by his uncle Basil Dixwell of Brome Kent. John became a lawyer, joined the Kent county committee and was a captain in the Kent militia. In 1646 he was elected to the Long Parliament as MP for Dover, and 1649 he was one of the fifty-nine regicides who signed the death warrant of King Charles I in 1649. Following the Restoration, Dixwell changed his name and fled to New England, settling in New Haven, where he lived under the alias James Davids.

Despite its mid-seventeenth-century date, the Dixwell monument adopts a conservative Jacobean funerary type, closely aligned with an earlier memorial at Churchover dating from 1595. This continuity reflects the durability of Jacobean monument forms in provincial England, and suggests a deliberate choice of visual language rooted in dynastic piety and social order, rather than stylistic novelty.

• 1. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol6/pp62-64#s3