Felbridge
| Felbridge | |
| Surrey | |
|---|---|
 St John the Divine, Felbridge | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ369263 |
| Location: | 51°8’24"N, 0°2’35"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 2,096 (2011) |
| Post town: | East Grinstead |
| Postcode: | RH19 |
| Dialling code: | 01342 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Tandridge |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
East Surrey |
Felbridge is a village in south-eastern Surrey, which forms a contiguous settlement with East Grinstead, the latter across the border in Sussex. The village had 829 homes and households at the time of the 2011 census.
The village has a playing field within its focal area, narrowly in Sussex.
History
No reference appears to a separate settlement being here in the Domesday Book of 1086.
James son of Edward Evelyn succeeded to the manors of Hedgecourt (and smaller carucate of Covelingeley) in the parish of Horne and the estate of Felbridge in 1751. Julia Evelyn Medley, his granddaughter by his first wife, who had married Charles Jenkinson, 3rd Earl of Liverpool held this estate, after James's Evelyn wife's death, as late as 1841.
By 1911, whereabouts it lost much of its land, amid the economic change and social reforms of the age it became the property of the Sayer family. The last resident "lord of the manor" was Charles Henry Gatty FRSE FLS who died in 1903.[1]
Parish church
The only church in the village is the Church of England parish church of St John the Divine,[2] known as St John's, designed by William White and built in 1865.[3] The construction is a fine example of the Victorian Gothic style.[4] An adjoining church hall was erected in 1965 and refurbished in 2012. The interior of the church was redesigned in 1972-74 and modernised in 2016.
About the village
Felbridge County Primary School is a listed building which marks a tapering triangular intersection between the village centre's longest streets, Copthorne Road and Crawley Down road that several times forms the Sussex border. In 1783 James Evelyn (descendant of John Evelyn, the diarist and famous architectural, landscape and cultural figure in Britain) "chose a large house at Hedgecourt Common – arranging for 1½ acres around it to be enclosed and used as a school". The school opened on 4 November 1783 and was substantially enlarged in 1934.[5]
Effingham Park Hotel and Golf Course is a large, complex, building with part-rounded restaurant in a compact 9-hole golf course forms the southwest outcrop of the parish.
Outside links
References
- ↑ Felbridge & District History Group: Charles Henry Gatty
- ↑ St John the Divine, Felbridge: A Church Near You
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Surrey, 1962; 1971 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09675-0page 244
- ↑ History, St Johns Felbridge. [(https://www.stjohnsfelbridge.com/about-us/history) "History"]. (https://www.stjohnsfelbridge.com/about-us/history).
- ↑ National Heritage List 1377602: @ (Grade @ listing)