Catalogue description PARISH OF HAMMERWOOD

The church of St Stephen was erected as a consolidated chapelry at the cost of £7431 defrayed by Oswald A Smith; it was consecrated on 10 April 1880, and formed as an ecclesiastical parish on 9 July 1880 from portions of the parishes of East Grinstead and Hartfield. The benefice was united with that of St Mary Magdalene, Cowden, in June 1977.

An inspection report by East Sussex Record Office in September 1993 listed baptism, marriage, banns, burial and confirmation registers. These were lost when the church safe was stolen on 15th April 1997. The parish magazines, PAR 354/7/2, include some entries of baptisms, marriages and burials.

What survives consists chiefly of records created by the officers of the PCC.

Summary of contents:

INCUMBENT

Baptism registers; 1874 - 1997: see introduction

Marriage registers; 1880 - 1997: see introduction

Banns registers; 1971 - 1997: see introduction

Burial registers; 1880 - 1997: see introduction

Confirmation records; 1911 - 1997: see introduction

PAR354/1/4 Banns registers; 1880-1971

PAR354/3 Service registers; 1880-1981

PAR354/4 Property; 1918-1986

PAR354/6 Income of the benefice; 1880-1972

PAR354/7 Other records; 1882-1977

CHURCHWARDENS

PAR354/10 Buildings; 1878-1982

VESTRY

PAR354/12 Minutes; 1880-1923

PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL

PAR354/14 Minutes; 1935-1988

PAR354/16 Other records; 1946-1991

SCHOOLS

PAR354/25 Hammerwood School; 1904-1905

Church of England, Hammerwood with Holtye Parish, East Sussex

Deposited by the incumbent and PCC, 7 May 1997 (ACC 7509). PAR 354/1/4/1 was found in the papers of a former incumbent and deposited 7 July 2003 (ACC 8825)

• Hammerwood with Holtye, East Sussex
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