Identifier: surreyarchaeolog32surr (find matches)
Title: Surrey archaeological collections, relating to the history and antiquities of the county
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Surrey Archaeological Society, Guilford
Subjects: Archaeology
Publisher: London, etc
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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marked by the restoration of the nave of the church (where some interesting wall paintings were discovered) in 1892-3; the addition of three bells, thus making a peal of six; the building of a lych-gate to the churchyard; and the collection of funds, just before his death, for a parish hall, now named in his memory. He died on Dec. 27th, 1913, and, on March25th, 1914, the present writer was instituted Rector. He resigned on Oct. 1st, 1915, and was succeeded by Arthur Edtvard Hollins, instituted on Dec. 20th, 1915. In this paper I have ventured to assail some half-accepted, but, as far as I can test them, wholly mistaken beliefs about the story of Dunsfold. I put on record one doubt more. I have found no authority for the alleged dedication of the Church to the Blessed Virgin Mary and All Saints. The wills afford no clue, the testator, when such piety was usual, bequeathed his soul to God and to Blessed Mary and to All Saints, as part of the commonform; it is found everywhere and in no Dunsfold will
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:;gu DUNSFOLD CHURCH. Interior before its Restoration in 1881. \^F7-oni a Sketch hy Mrs. Musgrave. To face i>age 30 DUNSFOLD AND ITS RECTORS. 33 that I have examined is the dedication of the Church mentioned. Richard Symmes (died 1680), in his MSS. Collections for Surrey, states explicitly, Dunsfold Church is dedicated to All Saints; on the other hand, in Ecton's Thesaurus (3rd ed., 1763), under the Deanery of Stoke, appears Dunsfold Rectory, St. Mary, patron the King. Whether the present alleged dedication is arrived at simply by a conflation of these two authorities I wonder. The old Fair day, Whit Monday, gives no help to a solution, for, being a movable feast, it cannot point to the patron saint. An old tradition is current—it comes from the lips of an old labourer—as to the site of the church. They do say, he said in 1914, as how that church at Dunsfold was fought for by the Pharisees and Sadducees. The Sadducees wanted it on the common, and the Pharisees wanted it where it is, and ev

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