File:Lynsted, Ss Peter & Paul church, Sir Christopher Roper monument (31653009792).jpg

Sir John Roper's son, Christopher Roper, succeeded as second Baron Teynham. He was knighted at Whitehall on 23rd July 1603. He married Catherine, daughter of John Seborne of Sutton St. Michael, Herefordshire, and died 16th April 1622. His widow caused the monument, standing on the north side of the Roper chapel, to be erected in the interval between her husband’s death and her own, which occurred in 1625. She was buried at Lynsted. Because she survived her husband, she is represented on the monument as still living, in widow’s hood, kneeling bolt upright, in prayer before a priedieu with an open book lying upon it. Outstretched beside her on the top of the tomb lies the effigy of her husband, wearing a suit of armour of the period, and over the armour his peer’s mantle. Below are shown 2 panels, the sons (John and William) having just returned from hunting with hawks and dogs, and the daughters Bridget, Mary, Elizabeth, Catherine and Margaret.n Mary, kneeling, founded a Benedictine Abbey in Ghent and became Abbess. Of the 4 other figures, three became nuns.