STOUGHTON
Stoughton is a large parish of 5,373 acres, 6 miles
long from east to west and 2 miles from north to south.
It lies on the southern slopes of the Downs, higher in
the north than the south. Two valleys divide it and
meet in a V at the south of the parish. The more
easterly of these, where Stoughton village itself stands,
is made by the River Ems. A secondary road from
Westbourne runs through this valley, turning at right
angles about 1½ miles above Stoughton, towards East
Marden; straight on, it becomes a mere track. A road
from South Harting comes over the Downs and through
Compton and West Marden into the more westerly
valley, and these two roads meet at the village of
Walderton. The slopes of the Downs are here wooded,
and the western part of the parish is covered by the
Forest of Stansted. Here the separate ecclesiastical
parish of Stansted and Forest Side was formed in 1856,
including small portions of Racton and Up Marden. (fn. 1)
Apart from the valleys, this is the most low-lying part
of the parish, being between 300 and 100 ft. Northwood Farm is in the north-west of the parish, near
Forest Side. On the east, Bow Hill lies in this parish,
and rises to over 600 ft.
The district is rich in prehistoric remains. Two of
the three long barrows to be found in West Sussex are
within the parish and are presumably of Neolithic date,
and there are eighteen later round barrows, traces of
prehistoric field-systems, a terrace-way, and indications
of probable flint-mines. (fn. 2)
Walderton Down, the boundaries of which had been
in dispute, was declared in 1788 to be in the manor of
Stansted and parish of Stoughton, and 280 acres here
were inclosed in 1863. (fn. 3)
Architecturally there is little of antiquity to be seen.
The village is a group of buildings, mostly of flint and
brick, not earlier than the 18th century, except an
L-shaped house at its north-east end. This has walls
of red and black brick and a pair of chimney-shafts of
the 17th century; one of the windows of the shorter
wing retains its brick label. At Walderton in a similar
group of houses two with thatched roofs have 17thcentury chimney-shafts, and one of them shows a little
timber-framing in its east front.
Northwood Farm and 'Little Busto', both on the
northern edge of the parish, are also 17th-century.
At Stansted Park (fn. 4) a house was built for the Earl of
Scarborough in 1686 by William Talman. Of this the
only remains are six bays of stone cellars, in two
adjoining ranges, of quadripartite vaulting with ovolomoulded ribs carried on circular stone pillars that have
moulded capitals. These are surrounded by brick
vaults belonging to the house built in 1786 by James
Wyatt for Richard Barwell, the wealthy East Indian
merchant and friend of Warren Hastings, who bought
the property in 1781 and had the Park laid out with
three magnificent avenues. This house was constructed
in white brick, with porticoes on the east and west
fronts. It was almost completely destroyed by fire in
1900, after which the present house was built by Sir
Reginald Blomfield. It is a very handsome building of
red brick with white stone dressings and balustraded
parapets. The main east and west fronts have colonnaded stone porticos and pediments. The rooms are
finely proportioned and contain many good pictures,
particularly portraits of the family of Ponsonby, Earls
of Bessborough, and the great tapestry of the Battle of
Wynendaal (fn. 5) presented to the 1st Lord Scarborough,
who was one of Marlborough's generals. On the north
side of the house a low wing containing the domestic
offices is a survival of the house of 1786, and beyond
it are the stables built by Wyatt, who also designed the
lodges at the entrance to the park.
The old house (fn. 6) built by Lord Maltravers, son of
William, Earl of Arundel, about 1480 lay to the southwest of the present house. It was a brick castellated
and turreted building and during the Civil War was
occupied first by the Royalists and then by the Parliamentarians. (fn. 7) Much of it was still standing in the last
quarter of the 18th century (fn. 8) but seems then to have
fallen into rapid decay. In 1818 a remaining fragment (fn. 9)
was converted by Lewis Way into the west end of a
chapel, which was consecrated in January 1819 by the
Bishops of Gloucester and St. David's. It was damaged
by a bomb in November 1940 but has been restored.
The west end, of 15th-century brick, has angle-turrets
and a restored stone-framed doorway. It is of two
stories, as is also the porch on the south. The nave and
chancel were built by Lewis Way, whose wealth was
largely devoted to the conversion of Jews, and the most
remarkable feature is the east window, unique as having
no symbol of Christianity, its decoration being entirely
concerned with the Old Testament Law. (fn. 10)
MANORS
Before the Conquest STOUGHTON,
assessed as 36 hides, was held by Earl Godwin of the king. After the Conquest 16
hides were for a time attached to the manor of Burne
[Westbourne] but by 1086 the manor was again a
single holding, except for 1 hide and woodland in the
rape of William de Braose. There were 15 haws in
Chichester belonging to the manor. It was part of the
land held in demesne by Earl Roger. Although the
manor consisted of 36 hides, it was assessed for geld at
only 15 hides. To the church of Stoughton belonged
1½ hides of land. (fn. 11)
The overlordship of Stoughton descended with the
honor of Arundel.
Early in the 12th century it was held in fee with
Racton and Up Marden by Savaric fitz-Cane, who
granted the church to Lewes Priory. (fn. 12) A portion of
the manor (40 acres of land and a messuage) passed to
Boxgrove Priory after 1170, when the Earl exchanged
it with them for certain tithes. (fn. 13) The tallage of 1187, (fn. 14)
and a note, under the Honor of Arundel, of payments
for restocking the farm of Stoughton in 1195, (fn. 15) show
that it was not yet connected with Bosham; but it was
held in 1252 by Hugh le Bigod, brother of Earl Roger
Bigod, as a member of Bosham (q.v.). (fn. 16) It passed to
Hugh's son Roger who became Earl of Norfolk, (fn. 17) and
he held of the Earls of Arundel until his death in
1307, (fn. 18) when his lands reverted to the king under a
fine made in 1279. (fn. 19) One third of the manor had been
granted by Hugh in dower to Isabel (Mortimer),
Countess of Arundel. (fn. 20)
Apparently Stoughton remained in the king's hands
for about ten years. In 1317 it was held during the
king's pleasure by his brothers Thomas (de Brotherton,
Earl of Norfolk) and Edmund. (fn. 21) The manor then
descended as a member of Bosham in the family of
Thomas, as stated when John Mowbray, Duke of
Norfolk, died seised of it in 1432, (fn. 22) and as such the
reversion of it was conveyed in 1476 by Elizabeth
widow of John, Duke of Norfolk, to Queen Elizabeth
wife of Edward IV and other trustees, (fn. 23) for the marriage of the Duchess's daughter Anne to the king's son
Richard, Duke of York. Anne dying without issue, the
Mowbray estates were divided between the families of
Berkeley and Howard, Bosham (q.v.) went to the
Berkeleys but Stoughton is found among the manors
settled by Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, in 1497. (fn. 24)
His son Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, in 1541 exchanged
it with the king. (fn. 25) In 1557 Henry, Earl of Arundel,
bought it out of the Exchequer to be held in chief as
of the honor of Petworth. (fn. 26)
Lord Lumley, who held the manor with Stansted
(q.v.), conveyed it in 1588 to Richard Lewknor. (fn. 27)
Stoughton then descended with the manor of West
Dean (q.v.) and came to Lord Selsey. He bequeathed
it to his daughter, wife of the Hon. Vernon Harcourt,
who died s.p. Under her will it came to Lord Clanricarde, who had already sold the reversion to Frederick
Bower of West Dean, and he became lord of the manor
about 1870. (fn. 28) The manorial rights appear to have
lapsed not long after this.
STANSTED
STANSTED may perhaps represent the whole or
part of the 16 hides of Stoughton which, shortly after
the Conquest, were temporarily attached to Westbourne. (fn. 29) It was mainly forest and something in the
nature of a hunting lodge seems to have been built
there in the 12th century. Henry II spent a week there
in 1177; (fn. 30) two years later Richard and Ralph the king's
falconers were there, (fn. 31) and in 1181 Silvester and his
comrades were looking after the king's birds at Stansted. (fn. 32) During the next three years large sums were
spent on the king's buildings here. (fn. 33) King John was
also here in 1214 and 1215. (fn. 34) The first reference to
it as a manor is in 1244 when it was part of Isabel's
dower at the division of the lands of Hugh d'Aubigny. (fn. 35)
It seems to have been closely connected with Westbourne, of which manor it formed a part between 1302
and 1330, (fn. 36) and it was assessed on the Subsidy Roll of
1412 as 'the manor of Burne with Stansted . …' (fn. 37) The
manor was held in 1454 of the king in chief by Eleanor
widow of John, Earl of Arundel, as ½ knight's fee. (fn. 38)
During the minority of Richard FitzAlan, Earl of
Arundel (1272–89), the manor was in 1283 granted
with Westbourne to the abbey of Vale Royal in aid of
their works. (fn. 39) From 1422 (fn. 40) to 1455, Stansted was one
of the manors held in dower by Eleanor widow of
John, Earl of Arundel. (fn. 41)
At the death of Henry FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel,
in 1579, the manor of Stansted descended with Westbourne to John, Lord Lumley, in right of his wife
Jane, daughter of Henry, (fn. 42) and remained in the family
of Lumley (later Earls of Scarborough). Among the
estates of Richard, Viscount Lumley, in 1646 was
the manor of Stansted, worth
£156 6s. 8d. (fn. 43) In 1721 the manor
was settled by Richard, Earl of
Scarborough, on his seventh son,
James Lumley, and it passed in
1766, by will, to George Montagu Dunk, Earl of Halifax, son
of the eldest sister of James
Lumley. Lord Halifax left it by
will to his natural daughter A.
M. Donaldson, (fn. 44) who had married Richard Archdall. (fn. 45) About
1786 her trustees sold it to Richard Barwell, a wealthy Indian merchant, who enlarged
the house. He died in 1805, and Stansted was bought
by Lewis Way. The executors of Lewis Way sold it
to Charles Dixon, who left it to his widow Augustina
Ivens Mary. She settled Stansted on her grandson (by
her first husband) George Wilder, (fn. 46) whose son sold it
to G. C. Whitaker, from whom it was bought in 1924
by the Earl of Bessborough.
Lumley. Argent a fesse gules between three popinjays vert.
Attached to the manor were the Forest of Stansted (fn. 47)
and the park, first mentioned in 1302. (fn. 48) In 1587 the
Forest contained a little over 1,400 acres, the Great
Park 836 acres, and the Little Park 560 acres. (fn. 49)
Part of Stansted was held with Racton (q.v.) at the
beginning of the 13th century, when it was the subject
of suits between Ralph Sanzaver and William son of
Ilbert de Rakinton. (fn. 50)
The manor of WALDERTON was held by Hugh
d'Aubigny, last Earl of Arundel of his line, and after
his death was divided in 1244 between his four coheirs. (fn. 51) The portion which thus came to the FitzAlans
seems to have been attached to their manor of Westbourne, as in 1412 Walderton, like Stansted, was included in the valuation of Westbourne, then held by
Thomas, Earl of Arundel. (fn. 52)
The portion assigned to Cecily de Muhaut was conveyed by her in 1261 to John de Wyvill; (fn. 53) and that
of Mabel de Somery is not traceable. The remaining
quarter went to Robert de Tateshale and was held by
him of the honor of Arundel at his death in 1272. (fn. 54)
Robert's eventual coheirs were his three sisters, Emma
wife of Adam de Cailly, Joan wife of Simon de Driby,
and Isabel wife of John de Orreby, (fn. 55) and Walderton
was still held jointly by their representatives in 1359. (fn. 56)
Thomas de Cailly died in 1316 and his estate passed
to his sister's son Adam de Clifton, then aged 9. (fn. 57)
Adam's grandson Sir John died in 1388 (fn. 58) and his son
Constantine in 1396, (fn. 59) seised of tenements in Walderton. Constantine's daughter Elizabeth married Sir
John Knyvet, (fn. 60) and in 1448 John Knyvet sold to
Edmund Mille the 'manor' of Walderton. (fn. 61) His son
Richard Mille died seised of the manor in 1476, leaving
a son William, (fn. 62) then an infant and subsequently an
idiot. (fn. 63) The Mille property passed to Richard's sister
Anne and her husband William Apsley, (fn. 64) and their son
Nicholas held the manor at his death in 1547. (fn. 65) His
son John in 1560 sold it to John Newman, (fn. 66) whose son
William had livery of the manor in 1577 (fn. 67) and died
in 1593, leaving an infant son John. (fn. 68) The further
history of this estate is unknown.
Another part of Walderton was held by the family
of Tregoz of Goring, apparently
as a subinfeudation of the FitzAlan manor. In 1331 Thomas
Tregoz had a grant of free warren
in his demesnes in various places
including Walderton. (fn. 69) From
him it descended to Henry
Tregoz, whose widow Joan
married Sir Edward St. John and
died in 1387 seised of lands in
Walderton, held of the Earl of
Arundel as of his manor of Westbourne. (fn. 70) Their heir was their
grandson Edward, who died in
1400 holding the manor of Goring with its members,
including Walderton, said to be held of the Prince of
Wales as of the honor of Wallingford; his heir was
his uncle John Tregoz, (fn. 71) to whom Edward's widow
Alice released her claims. (fn. 72) John Tregoz died without
issue in 1404 and 'the manor' of Walderton passed to
Thomas Lewkenor, son of Roger son of Joan daughter
of Margaret sister of Henry Tregoz father of the said
John. (fn. 73) This estate was probably absorbed in the extensive property of the Lewkenors.
Tregoz. Azure two gimel bars or with a lion passant or in chief.
The portion of Walderton assigned to Joan and
Simon de Driby passed in marriage with their daughter
Alice to Sir William Bernak, who died in 1339 seised
of ⅓ of the manor. (fn. 74) His son John Bernak died in
1346, holding of the king as of the barony of Tateshale,
leaving a son John, aged 3, (fn. 75) and a widow Joan, to
whom this estate in Walderton was assigned in dower. (fn. 76)
This may perhaps be the manor of Walderton which
was recovered against William Scardevyle in 1510 by
Thomas Fayremanner and John Sone. (fn. 77) William
Fayremanner left this manor to his wife Alice in 1550, (fn. 78)
and his son William in 1558 left the reversion of it
after his mother's death to John son of his uncle
Nicholas Fayremanner. (fn. 79) In 1574 William Fayremanner of Idsworth (Hants) sold the manor, late in
the tenure of Margaret Fayremanner, widow, to John
Colpys. (fn. 80) John died in 1580, seised of the manor,
leaving an infant son John, (fn. 81) who came of age in 1596,
when he had livery of what is then called ⅓ of the
manor of Walderton. (fn. 82) In 1607 he sold the manor to
William Colman, (fn. 83) who in 1610 conveyed it to Hugh
Speke and Matthew Woodward. (fn. 84) They in 1622 sold
it to Bartholomew Sone, (fn. 85) who in 1623 bequeathed to
his eldest son Thomas 'my two manors of Walderton,
namely the manor which I bought of Adrian Stoughton,
sometime of Queen Elizabeth, and the manor which
I bought of Hugh Speke and Matthew Woodward,
sometime Colpas'. (fn. 86) The manor which Sone had
bought from Adrian Stoughton in May 1602 (fn. 87) had
been bought by the latter on the previous 8 January
from Henry Best and Edward Britten, to whom the
Queen had granted it the day before. (fn. 88) It appears to
have come to the Crown as part of the possessions of
Tortington Priory. (fn. 89) Thomas Sone died seised of the
two manors in 1633, leaving a son Wood Sone, then
aged 8½. (fn. 90) In 1658 Francis Sone sold 'the manor' of
Walderton to Richard Peckham, (fn. 91) and it subsequently
descended with Lordington (q.v.) in Racton.
Part of Walderton was for a time attached to the
manors of Old Shoreham and Madeherst, with lands
in Stoughton. In 1539, Robert Southwell alienated the
holding to Thomas Bowyer, grocer, of London. (fn. 92) In
1552 it passed to Stephen Boorde, (fn. 93) who settled it on
his younger son Thomas in 1557. (fn. 94)
In 1244 tenements in NORTHWOOD were held
of the honor of Arundel by John Rumyn, and his
service of 1/10 fee in Northwood was assigned to Roger
de Somery and Nicholaa his wife, third coheir of Hugh
d'Aubigny. (fn. 95) Another John Romyn in 1300 claimed
haybote in Stoughton and Stansted in right of his manor
of Northwood. (fn. 96) In 1314 William Romyn died holding this estate of the Earl of Arundel and leaving an
infant son Henry, (fn. 97) who settled land in Stoughton on
himself and his wife Joan in 1346 (fn. 98) and died in possession of the 1/10 fee in Northwood in 1349, leaving a son
Edmund, aged 8. (fn. 99) It is not improbable that Edmund
may have died about the same time, when the Black
Death was raging, and that the holding reverted to the
overlord.
The manor of Northwood is mentioned among the
lands of the Earls of Arundel in 1397 (fn. 100) and 1398. (fn. 101)
One-third of the manor was among the property
assigned to Beatrice, Countess of Arundel, in dower
(d. 1440), while the other two-thirds belonged to the
Hospital of Holy Trinity, Arundel. (fn. 102) The whole manor
continued to belong to the Hospital and was granted
in 1547 with its other property to Sir Richard Lee, (fn. 103)
who granted it at once to Henry, Earl of Arundel. (fn. 104)
Philip, Earl of Arundel, conveyed the manor in 1582
to William and John Leefe, (fn. 105) and it was held by William
Leefe in 1606. (fn. 106)
In 1695 Edward Madgwick, and others, made a
conveyance of the manor to Sir Thomas Miller. (fn. 107) However, the interest of the Madgwick family in the manor
continued through the 18th century, for in 1713
Edward Madgwick gave the manor to his son John,
charged with a rent of £20 for his daughter Mary and
her heirs, (fn. 108) and in 1793 the Rev. William, Edward, and
Elizabeth Madgwick were called to vouch in the recovery which gave this rent to Richard Barwell of
Stansted, (fn. 109) who had bought the manor and manor-house
from Martha Woods of Chidham, widow, in 1782. (fn. 110)
CHURCH
The church of ST. MARY
(fn. 111) stands in
a graveyard that appears originally to have
been circular on a spur of the Downs north
of the village; it consists of chancel, nave flanked to
north and south by transepts, and south porch. It is
built of flint rubble which, except in the case of the
chancel and the porch, is plastered; the porch is largely
of brick; the roofs of the chancel, north transept, and
porch are tiled, those of the nave and south transept
are covered with blue Welsh slates. The eastern part
of the church is probably the very building mentioned
in Domesday Book, (fn. 112) the nave was built or reconditioned in the 13th century, the porch dates from the
17th.
The east window is of one semicircular-headed light
with concentric splay; the rear-arch is moulded and has
a hood-mould; the jambs have nook-shafts (solid with
them, not detached) with moulded caps, neckings, and
bases. In each of the north and south walls is a similar
window, but the chancel roof has been lowered (fn. 113) to
such an extent that the whole of the arches of these
have disappeared, the roof plate now forming a lintel
to a square-headed window; these three windows are
of the 13th century, but are somewhat reminiscent of
12th-century forms. In the east wall, on the south side,
is a piscina with pointed trefoil head, and a squareheaded aumbry. At the east end of the south wall is
a lancet window with plain pointed rear-arch; this
is originally of the 13th century, (fn. 114) but its stonework is
almost entirely a modern renewal. West of the second
window on this side is a priest's door, with pointed arch
of two chamfered orders and hood-mould, imposts,
jambs of like section to the arch, and semicircular reararch, also 13th-century. West of this is a square-headed
window of two trefoiled lights, without tracery, having
an external square label stopped with carved heads of
a man and a pig-like monster; this is of the late 14th
century, its sill is at a much lower level than that of
any other chancel window, but it is doubtful whether
it should be classed as a 'low side window'; perhaps it
was inserted to light a reading-desk. The chancel arch
is semicircular, of two orders, each having a bold torus
moulding; the capitals of the respond shafts have rather
thick abaci of the usual Romanesque section, continued
along both faces of the west wall of the chancel as
string-courses. The capital bearing the inner order on
the south side is of crude Corinthian form, that on the
north has volutes but, instead of foliage, a representation of drapery; the capitals of the shafts bearing the
outer orders are of simpler form; all the bases are
moulded. The jointing of this work is noticeably wide,
the tooling is diagonal, not random; its date is 11thcentury. The trussed rafter roof of the chancel is
wholly modern.
In the south wall of the nave a pointed arch of two
orders, the outer chamfered, the inner having a triple
roll moulding, opens into the transept; the outer order
rests on square responds, the inner on an attached shaft
with square abacus (continued to form an impost for
the outer order), capital with palm-leaf foliage, and
moulded base. This is of the late 12th century, and is
reminiscent of work done in Chichester Cathedral to
repair the damage of the fire of 1187. West of the
transept arch is a single-light window, set high in the
wall, with semicircular head, concentric splay, and
exterior rebate, apparently 13th-century work influenced by older forms. The south door has a plain
pointed arch of one order resting on plain jambs without imposts, also 13th-century. At the south-west
corner is a buttress of three stages with sloping offsets,
of uncertain date. The north wall of the nave is of
the same design as the south, but there is no buttress
at the north-west corner; the north door is blocked by
a modern heating chamber. In the west wall is a
pointed doorway of two chamfered orders of similar
design and date to the chancel door; over this is a
window of two lights with pointed cinquefoiled heads
surmounted by an oval-headed quatrefoil, of the 15th
or 16th century. There are six roof trusses, ancient,
but of uncertain date; each consists of tie-beam, kingpost, double principals, and struts; between the trusses
are timbers of rafter scantling set purlinwise; the space
between them is ceiled with plaster.
The south transept, now used as a vestry, has in the
south wall a window of lancet form with pointed reararch but semicircular arch in the glazing plane, probably early-13th-century; in the west wall is a single-light
window with semicircular head and double concentric
splay, of the 11th century. In about the later 14th
century an additional stage was added to the transept
to form a bell-chamber; this has on both east and west
faces a square-headed window of two trefoil lights with
no tracery; the roof is pyramidal. A massive oak bellframe, perhaps coeval with the bell-chamber, rises from
the ground floor.
The PARISH CHVRCH of ST MARY STOUGHTON
The north transept has a single 13th-century lancet
in the north wall, and a double splay window like that
of the south transept in the west. In the east wall is
a 13th-century piscina (drain missing) with roundheaded trefoil head and nail-head moulding; its hoodmould has the heads of a priest and a widow as stops;
immediately over this, perhaps not in its original position, is a plain corbel. There is no upper stage; the
roof has two ancient tie-beams, the underside of the
rafters is ceiled in plaster.
The porch was constructed of brick in the 17th
century, but was remodelled in the 19th, when an
outer doorway in stone was inserted.
The altar-rails have slender turned balusters, the
alternate ones having spiral fluting, the upper and
lower rails are moulded, the styles next to the opening
have the form of unfluted Ionic columns, there are no
gates; this is of the 18th century. Two oblong panels,
with the Ten Commandments, are on the east wall of
the nave; similar panels of smaller size with the Creed
and the Lord's Prayer have been relegated to the vestry;
these are perhaps early-19th-century. The font is a
copy of a 12th-century form with square bowl and five
shafts, but is, like the other fittings, modern.
There are three bells inscribed: 1. 'Praise the Lord
1597 A. W.'; 2. '+AUE GRACIA PLENA'; 3. 'Prais God
1602 A. W.'. (fn. 115)
Near the gate of the churchyard are two semicircular stones, perhaps the base of a former churchyard
cross.
The communion plate includes a silver cup of
1670. (fn. 116)
The registers of baptisms begin in 1671, those of
marriages in 1675, and burials in 1674.
ADVOWSON
At the time of the Domesday Survey, Stoughton church held 1½ hides
of land. The church was granted with
those of Racton and Up Marden before 1121 to Lewes
Priory by Savaric fitz-Cane, (fn. 117) and it was confirmed to
the priory by Bishop Seffrid II in about 1200. (fn. 118) In
or shortly before 1249 it was transferred to the Bishop
of Chichester, who assigned it to the common fund of
the canons. (fn. 119) A vicarage was ordained in 1256, (fn. 120) but is
not mentioned in the Taxation of 1291, when the rectory was valued at £20 and stated to belong to the 'community' of Chichester. (fn. 121) In 1341 the rector was said
to have certain lands and rents and 'the perquisites of
the court', (fn. 122) which suggests a rectorial manor, not elsewhere referred to. In 1428 the church was entered
twice as assessed for subsidy, at 30 marks and 12
marks, (fn. 123) the latter presumably referring to the vicarage,
which was valued at £8 9s. 2d. in 1535, (fn. 124) when the
rectory was farmed by the Dean and Chapter for £16. (fn. 125)
The Dean and Chapter were the patrons at the time
of Dallaway, (fn. 126) but in 1822, although they retained the
rectory, the gift of the vicarage was in the hands of
the Bishop of Chichester, (fn. 127) and now the advowson
belongs to the Bishop of London.
A vicarage of Stansted and Forest Side was created
and Christ Church built by Charles Dixon in 1856.
The advowson goes with the ownership of Stansted
Park (now owned by the Earl of Bessborough). There
is a Primitive Methodist Chapel at Walderton. (fn. 128)