the peal by Hope's family and parishioners in 1946. Within the tower are two lozenge-shaped black-framed coat of arms funerary hatchments, one at the north, one at the south, each containing the motto "Resurgam" (I shall rise again), within a scroll. Also within the tower is a framed text originally sited over the arch of the belfry:Benefactors to the parish of Harlaxton 1632. John Usher of the Isle of Ely, 1701, and Edward Deligne Gent; Natives of Harlaxton gave each of them the sum of ten pounds; the interest to be distributed yearly to the blind, lame, aged, and impotent people, and poorer widows, of the said parish. 1730. Cadwallader Glynne Esqu. gave the yearly sum of five pounds to the poor of the parish of Harlaxton, to be distributed yearly at Easter by the ministers and church wardens for the time being for ever. 1742. Cassandra Beaumont widow, gave ten pounds, the yearly interest to be layed out in books according to her direction. Within the church is a memorial plaque to those killed during the First World War. Churchyard The churchyard contains fifteen Grade II listed chest tombs, and five Grade II listed headstones. The chest tombs date from the early to mid-19th-century and are of limestone ashlar. They contain, variously, moulded plinths, slate tablets or panels either square-shaped or oval, and hipped tops. One is topped by a slate slab. Two are coffin shaped. Three contain at their corners, either buttresses, pilasters, or half-balusters. One has an arch-shaped headstone attached. Another, large and shaped like a sarcophagus, has rebates—continuous notch cut into an edge—at corners, a deep cornice, and a gabled top. Ascribed tombs are one to 'R Brewin of Grantham', and two to 'Green of Denton'. A chest tomb, dated 1813, is to Henry Blakelock (and family), who was the upholsterer for the Duke of Rutland. The listed headstones are all early to late 18th-century, except one, 1809, and of slate. They are flat topped or arch topped, one shoulder-arched—arch top corners leading to a raised flat top—with skull and bones above. On three the inscriptions are set within panels. One is ascribed to the mason Stephen Staveley of Melton. A further seven late 18th and early 19th-century headstones are listed as of special architectural or historic interest. Parish priests List of rectors, vicars and curates from the Clergy of the Church of England database, Edmund