St. Paul, Addlestone, Surrey

Description

The church of St. Paul, consecrated in 1838, is an edifice of brick with stone dressings, in the Early English style, and has a tower containing one bell: there are memorial windows to the Blunt, Grant Willmott, Maitland and Milsome families, to the Rev. William Pidcock M.A. vicar 1845-84, to Mr. and Mrs. Chester Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. Rickman and Mrs. Prideaux-Brune and Mrs. Tulk; the church has 800 sittings: in the churchyard are buried Marie Therese, wife of John Kemble, who died in 1838, aged 63, and Mr. Samuel Carter Hall F.S.A. the well-known author of many works on art, who died in March, 1889, and Anna Maria, his wife; she died 30th January, 1881; the fabric of the church is clothed almost to its summit with Irish ivy, brought from Killarney in 1855 by Mr. and Mrs. Hall: the church was restored in 1883 at a cost of £2,400 and in 1905 the nave was further restored and a new chancel and vestry built at a cost of £1,500.

Church Records

The parish register dates from the year 1838.