Bletchingley
Bletchingley | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | Redhill | |
Postcode district | RH1 | |
Dialling code | 01883 | |
Police | Surrey | |
Fire | Surrey | |
Ambulance | South East Coast | |
UK Parliament | ||
Bletchingley (historically "Blechingley") is a village in
History
The village lay within the
The settlement appears in the
In 1225 there is mention of Bletchingley as a borough. In the Middle Ages a borough was created by either the King or a Lord as a potentially profitable element in the development of their estates.
It appears that after the 14th century Bletchingley began to lose its importance as a borough, perhaps losing out to the market town of
Historic buildings
The house at Place Farm formed the gatehouse of Bletchingley Place: a great Tudor house, which was given to Anne of Cleves after her marriage to Henry VIII was annulled.[5]
There are nine buildings that date back to the 16th century in the clustered area of the village around its High Street of 90 or so houses.[6]
"Sandhills" was built in 1893 by
Amenities
The nearest railway station, Nutfield, is about 2 miles (3 km) away in South Nutfield.
Bletchingley is architecturally and topologically distinct: the central part of the village is a
Church
St Mary the Virgin Church is just north of the crossroads of the village. Four of the monuments in the churchyard are listed at Grade II, all of them tombs. The reasons for its Grade I listing[1] are:
- 11th-century tower (ironstone rubble with ashlar dressings); north arcade and south chancel chapel 13th century with 15th-century alterations
- North aisle by Rohde Hawkins, 1856
- Renewed upper stage of tower by Baker-King in 1910
- Elaborate/Romantic 19th-century aisle windows
- Perpendicular style windows
- Gargoyles to the angles.
- Three-light head window to chancel chapel associated with Roger the Hermit of Bletchingley
- Stone human head stops to hood moulding of west door
- Renewed south door under 15th-century roll-moulded surround in rich battlemented and crocketed Perpendicular porch.[1]
Localities in the parish
Warwick Wold
Warwick Wold is a hamlet immediately southeast of the M25 motorway/M23 motorway interchange and separated by a green buffer from Bletchingley by Lower Pendell Farm, which holds in one of its fields ruins of a Roman house, Lake Farm and Brewer Street Farm.[6]
Pendell House, Pendell Court, and the Old Manor House
Pendell House was designed for Richard Glydd by Inigo Jones to a symmetrical plan. On one of the chimney stacks is the date 1636. Glydd died in 1665, and his grandson John, an MP for Blechingley, came into possession. He died without issue in 1689, and his mother and sister Ann Glydd sold the house to Andrew Jelf, who was succeeded by Captain Andrew Jelf, R.N. His daughters sold it to Joseph Seymour Biscoe in 1803 and he sold to John G. W. Perkins in 1811. On the intestate death of his son John Perkins in 1846 it was the share of his sister, who left it to her sister's grandson Jarvis Kenrick, who lived there in 1911. This is a Grade I listed building, the highest category of architectural listing in the country.[10]
Directly opposite the main road is George Holman's 1624-built larger Pendell Court,[11] built of red brick with stone mullioned windows and tiled roof, marble fireplaces and woodwork. It is now used as a private school.[12]
Backing on to the school along the same partly paved street is a 16th-century house, brown-brick clad,
Brewerstreet or Brewer Street
Only 0.6 miles (1.0 km) north of the village, reached by the road at the east end of the churchyard, is Brewerstreet Farm and the old
Brewerstreet Farm is a Grade I listed building house, part 15th century, part
Demography and housing
Output area | Detached | Semi-detached | Terraced | Flats and apartments | Caravans/temporary/mobile homes | shared between households[2] |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(Civil Parish) | 365 | 546 | 190 | 129 | 6 | 0 |
The average level of accommodation in the region composed of detached houses was 28%, the average that was apartments was 22.6%.
Output area | Population | Households | % Owned outright | % Owned with a loan | hectares[2] |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
(Civil Parish) | 2,973 | 1,236 | 30.5% | 35.4% | 2,345 |
The proportion of households in the civil parish who owned their home outright compares to the regional average of 35.1%. The proportion who owned their home with a loan compares to the regional average of 32.5%. The remaining % is made up of rented dwellings (plus a negligible % of households living rent-free).
Governance
There is one representative on Surrey County Council, Chris Farr of the Independent group whose extensive ward is called Godstone.
Member Since | Member[18] |
Ward | |
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2007 | Gill Black | Bletchingley & Nutfield | |
2022 | Chris Pinard | Bletchingley & Nutfield | |
2021 | Liam Hammond | Bletchingley & Nutfield |
There is also a parish council with 9 members.[19]
Nearest settlements
Notes and references
- Notes
- ^ Although H.E. Malden in 1911 says parts of the Old Rectory " appear to date from the end of the 15th century"
- References
- ^ a b c Historic England. "Church of St Mary the Virgin (Grade I) (1029972)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
- ^ United Kingdom Census 2011 Office for National StatisticsRetrieved 21 November 2013
- ^ Surrey Domesday Book Archived 30 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Brayley, Edward Wedlake (1844). The history of Surrey, Volume 4, Part 1. p. 114.
- ^ Historic England. "Place Farm House including Cleves Cottage (Grade II*) (1029989)". National Heritage List for England.
- ^ a b Ordnance Survey map, courtesy of English Heritage Archived 24 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Historic England. "Sandhills, including entrance walls to front (Grade II) (1204642)". National Heritage List for England.
- ^ "The Welcome Club – Looking for new members". Bletchingley Village. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
- ^ "Home". The Countess of Munster Musical Trust. 20 December 2021. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
- ^ Historic England. "Pendell House (Grade I) (1029987)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
- ^ Stone tablet over the entrance porch of Pendell Court
- ^ Historic England. "The Hawthornes Pendell Court (Grade II*) (1281104)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
- ^ a b Historic England. "The Manor House (Grade II*) (1204686)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
- ^ H.E. Malden, ed. (1912). "Parishes: Blechingley". A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 4. Institute of Historical Research. Archived from the original on 9 February 2013. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
- ^ Historic England. "The Old Rectory including west wing (Grade II) (1377508)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
- ^ Historic England. "Brewer Street Farm House (Grade I) (1281258)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
- ^ "List of Surrey CC Councillors". Surrey County Council. Archived from the original on 3 May 2012. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
- ^ "Council Members". Tandridge District Council. Archived from the original on 9 September 2011. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
- ^ "Bletchingley Parish Councillors". Bletchingley Parish Council. Archived from the original on 9 February 2012. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
Further reading
- Uvedale Lambert (1921), Blechingley, a Parish History. London: Mitchell, Hughes and Clark. (vol 1, vol 2). OCLC 5385147
External links
- Village official website
- Listed Buildings in Bletchingley, Surrey, England
- Surrey County Council. "Bletchingley". Exploring Surrey's Past. Retrieved 30 May 2017.