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A mission church in Nutley Lane was built and 

 endowed as a chapel of ease to St. Mark's, chiefly at 

 the cost of the late Mr. W. Phillips. 



The church of St. Luke, South Park, was built in 

 1871 in a style similar to that of St. Mark's. 



St. John the Evangelist, Redhill, built in 1843, is 

 of white brick and Caen stone. It was restored, the 

 chancel rebuilt, and the roof raised, and a new front 

 built in 1889 by the late Mr. J. L. Pearson. The 

 tower and spire were completed in 1895. The seven 

 stained windows in the chancel were finished in 1907. 

 The church was originally designed in 15th-century 

 style. 



St. Matthew's Church, Redhill, is in Reigate and 

 Bath stone, in 14th-century style, with a tower and 

 spire. 



Holy Trinity Church, Redhill, in memory of the 

 Rev. Henry Brass, vicar of St. Matthew's, is of red 

 brick and Bath stone in 15th-century style. It is still 

 incomplete. 



No church is mentioned in the 

 dDrOWSONS Domesday Survey of Reigate, but 

 in the latter end of the 1 2th century, 

 Hamelin Earl Warenne with his wife Isabel, great- 

 granddaughter of the first Earl Warenne, granted the 

 church of ' Cherchesfeld ' to Southwark Priory.' 34 The 

 right of presentation remained with the successive 

 priors until the dissolution of the house in October, 



IS39" 4 



A vicarage had been ordained before 1291.** 

 The vicar was to provide a second priest.* 37 In 1347 

 Bishop William of Wykeham issued a monition to the 

 parishioners against forsaking their parish church to 

 attend mass at the chapel of Reigate Priory." 8 



After the surrender of the priory the advowson was 

 still held by the successive owners of the rectory (q.v.), 

 but, perhaps in 1724, it was separately sold to the 

 Rev. John Bird, then vicar. 139 His executors, widow, 

 and his widow's second husband, presented successively 

 till 1782, unless it was the son of the last who then 

 presented. The Rev. Geoffrey Snelson, instituted in 



1782, married a daughter of the patron, and inherited 

 the advowson. His wife Mary joined with Anne 

 wife of John Marshal in a conveyance of it to William 

 Bryant in 1788," but it reverted to the Snelson 

 family, who owned when Brayley wrote, c. 1842. It 

 is now in the hands of the Church Patronage Society. 



The other churches of which particulars have been 

 given are all in the gift of the Bishop of Rochester. 



Smith's Charity was formerly dis- 

 CH4RITIES tributed in Reigate as in other Surrey 

 parishes, but it has been diverted to 

 the school. 



1663 : Mrs. Philippa Booker left 6 \\i. yearly 

 for twelve poor women over sixty. James Relf about 

 doubled the benefaction at an unknown date. 



1673 : Mrs. Magdalen Cade left 100 for bread, 

 since applied for apprenticing boys and girls. 



1698 : Robert Bishop left two houses for bread, 

 and one house for teaching poor boys ; both since 

 applied to the school. 



1717 : Mrs. Sifsanna Parsons left z yearly to 

 poor girls in the charity school, or in default to poor 

 widows. 



1718 : John Parker left .500 invested in land for 

 the school. 



1730 : Richard Ladbroke left 5 yearly for keep- 

 ing up family monuments, the residue for bread. 

 This has been since employed for apprenticing. He 

 also left ji yearly for repairing the church bell 

 ropes. 



William Cooke, at an unknown date, left money 

 for bread in Reigate and Buckland charged on a long 

 leasehold which expired in 1862, when the annuity 

 ceased. 



1820 : Francis Maseres, Cursitor baron of the 

 Exchequer, gave 1,010 to provide for sermons after 

 evensong in Reigate Church, and for bread to the 

 poor. 



1835 : Sir James Alexander left 200 for the poor. 

 Charrington, esq., left a charity, extinct by the 

 cessation of long annuities in 1860. 



284 See the account of the Rectory 

 Manor. 



* Index to Winton. Epis. Reg. ; Eger- 

 ton MSS. 1031-4, fatsim. 



"* Pope Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 208. 

 The church was valued at 13 6s. &</. ; 

 the vicarage at 5. 



M " Egerton MS. 1033, fol. 29 ; ffylu- 

 ham's Reg. (Hants Rec. Soc.), ii, 438. 



8 Ibid, ii, 220-1. 



889 Monument to Mr. Bird. Manning 

 and Bray (op. cit. i, 323) state that he 

 had purchased it in 171$, possibly a mis- 

 print for 1725, for the owners of the 



rectory had it in 1724 (Recov. R. Trin. 

 10 Geo. I, rot. 44). John Bird returned 

 himself as patron in March, 1725 (Visit. 

 Answers, MS. at Farnham). If the pur- 

 chase was in 1725 it was therefore before 

 March of that year. 



* Feet, of F. Surr. Hil. 28 Geo. III. 



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