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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,

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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.

ton MSS. 1031-4, fatsim.
 * Index to Winton. Epis. Reg. ; Eger-

"* 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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