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area. Its design is architecturally important as a well proportioned example of a small Church of its style. It is valued for its aesthetic contribution to the townscape. For well over a century the Church had religious associations with the local
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two five acres)o from the family land closer to his own home, "Stonehaven", and on the north of
Marsden Road; access to the burial ground being made by a lane leading from Marsden Road. This explains why the cemetery of St Paul's Church is so far from the building itself. William Mobbs himself was first person laid to rest in the cemetery on 14 July 1851.
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Anglican church bounded on the north by Marsden Road. The land was conveyed to Reverend George Edward Weaver Turner, then the incumbent of St. Anne's Church at
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