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All Saints Church, Benhilton

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in 2001. The southern chapel and northern vestry/organ chamber lie under their own gables and have florid three-light fenestration similar to that in the aisles. Both porches have moulded outer doorways. The northern porch is vaulted. An unusual feature of the exterior walls is the widespread traces
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style, and has a tower containing a clock and 8 bells: the stained east window is a memorial to Thomas Alcock esq.: there are 874 sittings, one half being free. The register dates from the year 1866. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £375, with 1 acre of glebe and residence, in the gift of E.G.
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style, was laid in the same year. The building owed much to Thomas Alcock who was then lord of the manor, and who gave £18,000 towards the building, the land for the church, the vicarage and a school. The church was conceived as an amenity for an estate of upper class Victorian housing which Alcock
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stage the opening on each face is a two-light reticulated window. The tower has diagonal buttresses to its west face, and a NE stair turret which rises above the plain parapets of the top of the tower. The aisles have lean-to roofs and above these, sandwiched in a narrow band below the eaves of the
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holes, no doubt used for the scaffolding during the construction of the building. These are often found on medieval buildings but were usually carefully filled in and obliterated on Victorian ones. Here they are made a feature of with the side pieces and cappings clearly evident. The hood stops of
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The nave and south aisle were finished first, the tower and chancel were added in 1867, while the north aisle was not fully roofed until 1906. The church has always been noted for its bells; the first was the tenor bell, which was presented by Thomas Alcock and was rung on the day the church was
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town centre, to the east of Angel Hill on All Saints Road and looking down towards Sutton Green. It stands on an artificial platform built up on a south-facing slope. The hill on which the church stands was partially formed as a result of earth moved there during the building of the Angel Hill
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contains the following entry: "Benhilton ecclesiastical parish was formed out of the parish of Sutton, September 15, 1863. The church of All Saints, erected in 1865, at a cost, including site, house, schools and endowment, of £24,000, is of flint, in the
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infilling. The aisle windows are broad and have flowing tracery in the three lights, alternating in design in each bay. The windows in the Lady Chapel depict Our Lady with the infant Jesus, and were designed by John Lawson of
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consecrated. The framework for a complete peal was fixed in the tower in 1877. Another bell was added the same year, and a third the year after. By 1882 there were six and all eight were inaugurated on 1 November 1893 (
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with organ chamber above, imposing west tower, and north and south porches. It is brick built with flint facing externally, natural stone dressings with trussed timber roof covered with plain clay tiles.
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The All Saints Benhilton Society of Change Ringers was formed in 1896 and regular practice and service ringing has been carried out since then, except for a brief interlude during the
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The church has a large four-stage tower at its western end. The tower features a doorway and a four-light window which has, like the other principal windows of the church, flowing
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There is a historic churchyard around the church, which includes several significant tombs. It is wooded, including
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was created on 15 September 1863, and the foundation stone of the Grade II* listed church, designed by
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Extracts from Kelly's Directory of Surrey, Surrey Sheet 13.11 Sutton (North) & Benhilton 1910
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At the south western corner of the church is a memorial to men of the parish who died during the
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Coles esq." The entry goes on to state that the population of the parish in 1901 was 3,503.
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cutting in the 1770s. Its large size and prominent location makes it a local landmark.
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nave, is a clerestory with circular windows with alternating
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All Saints Church, Benhilton is located in London Borough of Sutton
51°22′21″N 0°11′35″W / 51.37250°N 0.19306°W / 51.37250; -0.19306
Denomination
Church of England
Churchmanship
Anglo-Catholic
Architect(s)
Samuel Teulon
Diocese
Diocese of Southwark
Bishop(s)
Bishop of Fulham
Vicar(s)
Churchwarden(s)
Listed Building
parish church
Anglican Diocese of Southwark
Church of England
Sutton
Greater London
Benhilton
Grade II*
listed
church
Historic England
Victorian
Gothic Revival
Samuel Sanders Teulon
Sutton

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