The Weald of Kent, Surrey and Sussex
St Bartholomew Parish Church      Maresfield  
Parish records Before
1500
1500
to
1550
1550
to
1600
1600
to
1650
1650
to
1700
1700
to
1725
1725
to
1750
1750
to
1775
1775
to
1800
1800
to
1825
1825
to
1850
1850
to
1875
1875
to
1900
1900
to
1925
1925
to
1950
1950
to
1975
1975
to
2000
After
2000
N/K

1330Christenings95153602146818227533220211251
362Marriages1173724172236309072691
270Burials42119155128133268462331
 

Books and other documents
PublishedTitle, author and references
1852Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex and Surrey by The Rev. Arthur Hussey, M.A. ⇒ p. 256
1860Uckfield, Past and Present by The Rev. Edward Turner, M.A.p. 17
1862Maresfield by The Rev. Edward Turner, M.A.p. 140
1870A Compendious History of Sussex - Volume II. by Mark Antony Lower, M.A.p. 42
1904Highways and Byways in Sussex by E.V. Lucas ⇒ p. 296

Historical records

1404Occupation Rector of MaresfieldThomas LudlowSt Bartholomew Parish ChurchTurner's Maresfield

1426 to 1440Occupation Rector of MaresfieldWilliam SuthbySt Bartholomew Parish ChurchTurner's Maresfield

1440 to 1446Occupation Rector of MaresfieldRoger MershSt Bartholomew Parish ChurchTurner's Maresfield

1446 to 1470Occupation Rector of MaresfieldJohn TrekeSt Bartholomew Parish ChurchTurner's Maresfield

1470 to 1504Occupation Rector of MaresfieldRichard RichardsonSt Bartholomew Parish ChurchTurner's Maresfield

1504 to 1519Occupation Rector of MaresfieldThomas SewellSt Bartholomew Parish ChurchTurner's Maresfield

1519 to 1539Occupation Rector of MaresfieldThomas BankbourneSt Bartholomew Parish ChurchTurner's Maresfield

1539 to 1541Occupation Rector of MaresfieldHenry SimonSt Bartholomew Parish ChurchTurner's Maresfield

1541 to 1561Occupation Rector of MaresfieldRobert TaylorSt Bartholomew Parish ChurchTurner's Maresfield

1561Occupation Rector of MaresfieldThomas MawdesleySt Bartholomew Parish ChurchTurner's Maresfield

c 1570Occupation Rector of MaresfieldEdward WatmouthSt Bartholomew Parish ChurchTurner's Maresfield

1570 to 1591Occupation Rector of MaresfieldNicholas PayneSt Bartholomew Parish ChurchTurner's Maresfield

1591 to 1601Occupation Rector of MaresfieldRalphe SpringateSt Bartholomew Parish ChurchTurner's Maresfield

1601 to 1605Occupation Rector of MaresfieldGeorge WaylettSt Bartholomew Parish ChurchTurner's Maresfield

1605 to 1638Occupation Rector of MaresfieldRichard TaylorSt Bartholomew Parish ChurchTurner's Maresfield

1638 to 1644Occupation Rector of MaresfieldThomas OldfieldSt Bartholomew Parish ChurchTurner's Maresfield

c 1644Occupation Rector of MaresfieldMr WattesSt Bartholomew Parish ChurchTurner's Maresfield

c 1660Occupation Rector of MaresfieldMr PikeSt Bartholomew Parish ChurchTurner's Maresfield

c 1680Occupation Rector of MaresfieldMr MiddletonSt Bartholomew Parish ChurchTurner's Maresfield

c 1690Occupation Rector of MaresfieldRichard BonnerSt Bartholomew Parish ChurchTurner's Maresfield

1728Occupation Rector of MaresfieldRalph KettlebySt Bartholomew Parish ChurchTurner's Maresfield

1728 to 1738Occupation Rector of MaresfieldJohn LloydSt Bartholomew Parish ChurchTurner's Maresfield

1739 to 1790Occupation Rector of MaresfieldHenry MichellSt Bartholomew Parish ChurchTurner's Maresfield

1790 to 1811Occupation Rector of MaresfieldRobert RivettSt Bartholomew Parish ChurchTurner's Maresfield

1811 to 1836Occupation Rector of MaresfieldGeorge WoodwardSt Bartholomew Parish ChurchTurner's Maresfield

1837Occupation Rector of MaresfieldEdward TurnerSt Bartholomew Parish ChurchTurner's Maresfield

1867Directory entrySt Bartholomew Parish ChurchPost Office Directory
The church of St. Bartholomew is a neat Gothie stone building : it has nave, chancel, and well proportioned tower with 6 bells: portions of a much older church are visible in the chancel. The register commences in 1538. The living is a rectory, annual value £645, with residence, in the gift of Charles Salisbury Butler, Esq., M.P., and held, since 1837, by the Rev. Edward Turner, M.A., of Balliol College, Oxford; the Rev. Thomas Richard Turner of Queen's College, Oxford, is curate.

1874Directory entrySt Bartholomew Parish ChurchPost Office Directory
The church of St. Bartholomew is a neat Gothic stone building : it has chancel, nave, and well proportioned tower with 6 bells : portions of a much older church are visible in the chancel. The register commences in the year 1538. The living is a rectory, yearly value £700, with residence, in the gift of the Rev. J. B. M. Butler, M.A. of Trinity College Cambridge, the present rector, son of the late Charles Salisbury Butler, esq., M.P., of Cazenoves, Middlesex, and 48 Princes gate, London s.w.; the Rev. John Ricketts, of Jesus College, Oxford, is curate. The present rector was appointed to the living in 1872, and has rebuilt the Rectory house, which is now a handsome and substantial Gothic building of red brick and stone.

c 1875Maresfield, Sussex - c 1875Part of the 6 inch to 1 mile map of Sussex produced in 1875 by Ordnance SurveySt Bartholomews Church

1882Directory entrySt Bartholomew Parish ChurchKelly's Directory
The ancient church of St. Bartholomew, a building of Early English character, with perpendicular insertions and addi­tions, has been restored and enlarged, and was re-opened and in part re-consecrated by the Bishop of Chichester on the 24th April, 1879 : the church now consists of a new chancel, in which all the windows of old chancel, nave, transepts (also new), south porch, organ chamber, vestry and a massive tower containing 6 bells, were inserted (excepting the east window, now placed in south transept) ; the removal of the west gallery exposed to view the noble proportions of the tower arch: in the chancel are two richly-stained windows, one of which was erected as a memorial to the Rev. Edward Turner, late rector, by his son, the Rev. T. R. Turner: in the south transept is a memorial window to the late Sir J. V. Shelley bart. painted by his daughter, Mrs. Hervey Pechell an early Norman window, date about 1080, discovered in the south wall of the nave, and in a good state of preservation, has been filled with a stained-glass scroll, copied from an ancient window in the cathedral at Rheims : there are carved stone sedilia in the sacrarium and an eagle lectern of oak, presented by Miss Butler, the rector's sister : the stalls and reading. desks are of English oak, elaborately carved : the ancient oak porch, an object of great interest, has been care­fully restored from an old drawing in the possession of C. Powell esq. of Speldhurst. Kent, and has been brought back to its original position at the junction of tower and nave, now forming the principal entrance to the church ; in it may be seen the remains of the stoup for holy water, used before the Reformation, and there is another just inside the en­trance, in the stone-work of the jamb. The register of baptisms commences in the year 1538; marriages and burials, 1542. The living is a rectory, gross yearly value from tithe rent charge, £690, with residence and 3 acres of glebe, in the gift of and held since 1872 by the Rev. John Banks Meek Butler M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge.

1907Church of St BartholomewChurch of St Bartholomew, MaresfieldPrivate collection

1910Maresfield ChurchMaresfield Church, MaresfieldPrivate collection

1917Maresfield ChurchMaresfield Church, Maresfield photographed by G.A. WickhamsPrivate collection

1933North View, Maresfield churchNorth View, Maresfield church photographed by H.H. Camburn, Tunbridge WellsPrivate collection

The Weald is at  Database version 14.05 which has ongoing updates to the 395,000 people; 9,000 places; 613 maps; 3,308 pictures, engravings and photographs; and 248 books loaded in the previous version

ODNB  
British Libarary  
High Weald  
Sussex Record Society  
Sussex Archaeological Society  
Kent Archaeological Society  
Mid Kent Marriages  
Ancestry  
Genes Reunited  
International Genealogical Index  
National Archives  

Top
of the
page