Set into the sedilia of the chancel's south wall, the sedilia being a row of recessed seats traditionally used by clergy during services, the tablet is worn and round-headed, with a slightly raised border framing an inscription that was already being transcribed from memory as early as the late nineteenth century. What makes it quietly arresting is less its scale than its accumulation: a family recorded in sequence, one entry added after another as each member died, until the stone itself became a kind of ledger of grief.

Captain William Ivory was the first to be commemorated, dying on 18 July 1684 at the age of sixty, leaving a son and a daughter. Seven years later, a child named Mary Ivory, described as the third daughter of Sr Ivory and aged just one year and eight months, was added to the inscription; she died on 1 September 1691. The following April, Captain William's wife, Dame Ann Ivory, died at sixty-three. Then, in February 1694 or 1695, the date written in the double form used when the new year was reckoned differently in different places, Sir John Ivory, the captain's only son, died at forty, leaving two sons and two daughters of his own. The stone was placed by Dame Ann Ivory, Sir John's widow and daughter of Sir John Talbot of Laycock in Wiltshire, whom she described in the inscription as a lasting testimony of her former love and affection to him and his family. The phrasing is formal but not cold; it reads like something written with care, by someone who knew exactly what she was doing in setting it down in stone.