Cray St Paul, Kent
Historical Description
Cray, St Paul's, a parish in Kent, on the rivulet Cray,¾ of a mile NNE of St Mary-Cray station on the L.C. & D.R., and 4½ miles E of Bromley. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under St Mary Cray (R.S.O.) Acreage, 1654; population, 1028. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; value, £282 with residence, in the gift of Earl Sydney. The church is Norman and Early English, and has been restored.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Kent | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Cray St. Paul's St. Paulinus | |
Hundred | Ruxley | |
Lathe | Sutton-at-Hone | |
Poor Law union | Bromley |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
The oldest parish register dates from the year 1579.
Churches
Church of England
St. Paulinus (parish church)
The church of St. Paulinus is of flint and stone, chiefly in the Early English style, and has a tower with spire containing 3 bells: several of the windows are stained, two being memorials: the Churchyard affords fine views over the surrounding landscape: there are 300 sittings.
Methodist
Methodist Chapel
The Wesleyan chapel was built in 1817.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Cray St Paul from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Cray, St. Paul's (St. Paulinus))
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Kent newspapers online:
- Kent & Sussex Courier
- Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald
- Dover Express
- Kentish Gazette
- Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald
- Kentish Chronicle
- Maidstone Telegraph
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of Kent, 1619 is available on the Heraldry page, as is also The Visitation of Kent, 1663-68.