Category: Places
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The Parish Stocks and Pound have been lost for a century but a more recent loss has been two ornamental wrought iron lamps that vanished in the late 1980’s without trace – these were replaced by the Maresfield Conservation Group. The first one was erected at the entrance to the recreation ground in 1897 and…
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THE SOLID red brick-faced Georgian Inn stands in the centre of the village opposite Maresfield Church. Land Tax records show that widow Lucy Relph was at The Chequer from 1752 to 1766, so one can assume the building is at least 250 years old. County records list the occupier of Chequers and posting house in…
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It is not known how long the Old Rectory was the site of the Rector of Maresfield’s residence, but we know that in 1812 the Revd George Woodward who was Rector of Maresfield for 25 years and Vicar of Fletching for over 50 years (at that time clergymen were allowed to hold more than one…
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There is a peal of eight bells in the fine embattled tower which was added to the church in the early 15th century by John de Pelham, one of the powerful family of Sussex landowners. There were originally six bells that were recast in 1787. An old parish account book records the taking down and…
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Like most villages, the church has always been the focal point of Maresfield. A wooden church is believed to have stood on the same site in Saxon times. The late Revd Algernon Charles Dudley Ryder (Rector 1902-1941) was always adamant that the little window on the south side of the nave was of Saxon origin.…