English: Stone monument in the Kirkham Chantry of the Church of St John The Baptist, Paignton, Devon to Sir William Kirkham (d.1623) of Blagdon in the parish of Paignton.^[1][2] He married (as his second wife) Mary Tichbourne (d.1627), a daughter of Peter Tichbourne of Hampshire^[3] and a sister of Chidiock Tichbourne (1562-1586), conspirator and poet. His kneeling effigy, dressed in armour with neck-ruff and bareheaded, survives in the Kirkham Chantry, facing that of his wife. By Mary he had 8 sons and 4 daughters. Between the figures is a column on which is sculpted at top a sunburst inscribed with the letters "IHS" below which is inscribed "SPES ET" ("hope and"), below which is a crown, the browband of which is inscribed "CORONA" ("crown"), below which is a pair of hearts overlapping. At the base of the central column is a heraldic shield sculpted with six quarters (see ), apparently not in its original position. The two outermost columns are each decorated with four heraldic shields, seven of which have been chiselled flat and unintelligible. The only arms still visible are on the top left shield, showing Kirkham impaling a field vair, but with the chief chiselled flat. Possibly for the Fleming family of Bratton Fleming in Devon, although no marriage between these families is recorded by the Heraldic Visitations. On top of all three colums is a putto, with wings folded over his chest, but with face features chiselled away, apparently by Puritans. His monument was "covered with plaster" until 1753, when on its removal the following inscription was revealed (since disappeared):^[4]

Memoriae sacrum in obitum ornatissimi viri Gulielmi Kirkham Equitis Aurati ("Sacred to the memory into death of the most illustrious man William Kirkham, Knight Bachelor").

For heraldry of the central shield see