CHEAM
Ceighám (ix cent.); Cheham, Cegham (x cent.);
Cheyhem (xi cent.); Cheame, as early as 1571.
Cheam is a parish on the northern side of the
Chalk Downs, 3 miles north-east of Epsom, 5½ miles
south-west of Croydon. It measures about 3½ miles
from north-west to south-east, and is about a mile
wide, of a regular form, containing 1,909 acres. It is
chiefly agricultural, with nearly 800 acres of permanent pasture. It is of the usual type for parishes
on the north of the Downs. The old village and
church are on the Woolwich Sand, and the extremities of the parish reach southwards over the chalk and
northwards over the London Clay; Cheam Common
and North Cheam are on the latter. The common
fields were inclosed by an Act of 1806. (fn. 1) In the
village and south of it are large chalk-pits. Prehistoric remains seem to be confined to a few flint
flakes picked up on the Downs. The Beverley Brook
rises in the chalk in Cheam parish.
The London, Brighton and South Coast railway
to Epsom has a station at Cheam, and Belmont
station on the line to Epsom Downs is just on the
border of the parish. A new neighbourhood of villas
has grown up here upon the Chalk Downs. Worcester
Park station, on the London and South Western railway to Epsom, is just beyond the parish to the northwest. At this point the new residential district of
Worcester Park extends into Cheam parish.
The old village lies round the meeting-place of the
road running north and south from Malden to
Banstead with the Sutton and Ewell road, about a
mile west of the former town. Many of the cottages
are of some antiquity and are generally constructed
of timber framing, weather-boarded on the outside
and roofed with tiles, though some are built of brick.
The village is, however, fast becoming modernized,
and a modern settlement is growing up along the road
to Malden and on either side of the main Epsom road.
The church stands in the centre of the old village,
about 100 yards back on the east side of the Malden
road, while on the opposite side of the road is the
rectory, a two-story red brick building, with attics in
the tile roof. It was for the most part erected in
the 18th century, but the west wing is probably
of the 17th century, refaced with brick-sized tiles when
the main block was built. South of the rectory
stands 'Whitehall,' a two-story building with overhanging upper story and tiled roof, the residence of
Miss Killick, whose ancestors have occupied the
house for several generations. The original structure
was evidently a small rectangular farm-house half
timbered, and appears to have been built in the
16th century. In the latter part of the 18th
century most of the external walls were covered with
weather-boarding that has obliterated its original
Tudor detail. The house is entered from a timber
porch at the north end of the east wall, over
which is a room, with a central newelled staircase
occupying a corresponding position on the west.
Apparently in the 17th century the present drawingroom was added to the west of the northernmost
chamber, and in the 18th century a new kitchen was
built to the south-west of the old one. To the north
of the house is a large 16th-century cellar, entered by
a flight of steps from the garden of a small cottage.
The walls of this cellar are of stone, and it is covered
by a three-centre barrel vault of brick. To the
west of and leading out of the large cellar is a
smaller one, but much of this has fallen in. What
was the original purpose of these vaults is purely a
matter of conjecture.
The school, held in its early days in Whitehall House,
now in the Manor House, a large red brick house, has
been famous for a longer period than any other private
school in the country. In 1665, by reason of the
Plague in London, several sons of London gentlemen
were sent to Cheam, (fn. 2) and the school seems to have
continued ever since. It was in the hands of an
eminent clergyman and educational reformer, the
Rev. W. Gilpin, in the 18th century, and of Charles
Mayo, who conducted it on the Pestalozzian system,
in 1826. It is now a well-known preparatory school
in the hands of Mr. A. S. Tabor.
The isolation hospital of the Metropolitan Board
of Works is on Cheam Common, and near the
London road is the Croydon and Wimbledon joint
smallpox hospital, built in 1903.
The National school was founded in 1826. A
girls' school was added in 1869, and a school at
Cheam Common in 1878. Cheam Common
(infants') was built in 1906, Belmont school in 1902.
New school buildings are now being erected.
Cheam Park adjoins the modern Nonsuch Park.
The original Nonsuch parks were probably partly
within this parish, for the manor of West Cheam was
in the king's hands when he began to build Nonsuch.
The proximity of the royal palace of Nonsuch, and
the frequent residence of all of the kings and queens
there from Henry VIII to Charles II, involved considerable exactions and labours on the local inhabitants.
Hence 'the Council to the Lords of the Admiralty
understand that divers persons claim exemption from
land carriage of timber for the navy by reason of their
personal attendance' (fn. 3) ; and among these were the
inhabitants of Cheam and Ewell in regard of service
for the king's house at Nonsuch. On many subsequent
occasions (fn. 4) the privilege seems regularly to have been
impugned, and as constantly to be re-established until
it was discontinued in the time of the Civil War.
After the Church Settlement of Elizabeth Cheam
still remained a great recusant centre. Sir John
Lumley, Lord Lumley (1534–1609), lord of the
manor of Cheam, was accused of participation in the
scheme to marry Mary to the Duke of Norfolk in
1570, and the Fromonds, who held a lease of the
manor and a capital messuage in it, were from about
1615 to 1680 involved in criminal proceedings for
recusancy. Thomas Fromond (fn. 5) was granted a lease
of the site of the manor of East Cheam for thirty
years on 8 October 1530 at a rent of £7, and
Bartholomew Fromond surrendered it for a regrant
at a rent of £7 for twenty-one years. In 1579
Bartholomew died, (fn. 6) and his son William succeeded
him. In 1607 William died, (fn. 7) and Bartholomew
inherited the estates which are delimited in a
grant by William Fromond to Bartholomew his son. (fn. 8)
Besides these the Lloyds or Floods (who inherited
the manor) certainly had Romanist sympathies.
In 1615 an information was laid against Bartholomew Fromond of Cheyme or Cheam (fn. 9) for lodging a Jesuit for three nights, one Henry Flood. In
1621 (fn. 10) there was a grant to Sir John Leigh of
Burstow Lodge as long as the estates remained in the
king's hands for the recusancy of Bartholomew
Fromondes or Furmens 'who retained his one third
in East and West Cheam and Mitcham.' Again
in 1633 (fn. 11) there is another information against
Bartholomew Fromond for harbouring one Henry
Flood, alias Francis Smith, alias Rivers, alias Seymour,
a Jesuit; in 1638 (fn. 12) Francis Smith, 'aged almost four
score years,' was released from a long imprisonment
and at once went to Fromond's house. Fromond
endeavoured to bribe the pursuivants off, but had to
avert proceedings by petitioning the council. By
1650 (fn. 13) Bartholomew Fromond was dead; in 1652
his widow's second husband William Howard of East
Cheam begged discharge of lands in East Cheam held
in right of Elizabeth his wife, widow of Bartholomew
Fromond, who was a Protestant. In 1654 William
Baggs (her third husband) still had to beg leave to
contract for the sequestrated two thirds. Again we
have in 1650 Mary Flood (the widow of the lord of
the manor) petitioning against sequestration of two
thirds, and on 1 August 1650 the oath of abjuration was administered to her. In 1680 a similar
claim was still made on William Fromond.
W. S. Rockstro the musician (1823–95) was born
in Cheam. Charles Davenant, LL.D., son of the
poet, was educated there.
There are several old place-names recorded, some
still extant. In a grant from William Fromond
to Bartholomew dated 12 July 1560 we find
'Hasdell Close, Lamp Close, The Gate, Pyghtell,
Bassetland, Little Bassett, Bassett Lane, Bell Yard,
Hackard's Close, Pylford's Bridge (now Pulford
Bridge), Dobbescroft Pit, Little Moreland, Fylsefeld,
Rythe, Shepehack's feld, Longlands, Mareland.'
Other names are Spensares, Swynkers, (fn. 14) a close of
land called Cockfeld, (fn. 15) and Spasfeld. (fn. 16) Two mills are
mentioned in a fine of 1583. (fn. 17)
MANORS
The earliest mention of Cheam is
in the alleged charter of 727, (fn. 18) by
which Frithwald, subregulus of Surrey,
with Bishop Erkenwald, confirmed to the monastery of
Chertsey '20 hides of land at Cheam, with the swine
pasture in Danewald.' The original grant was said
to be in 675 A.D. Next we have on December 15
933 (fn. 19) Athelstan confirming to the ' venerable family
which is in Chertsey' the lands formerly possessed by
that abbey, including Cheam. A little later, 946–55, (fn. 20)
we find Athelwold leaving his brother Edric 'Cheam'
by will; but this can hardly refer to the same
extent of territory. Again in 967 (fn. 21) Edgar confirmed
the donation of 727 made by Frithwald to
Chertsey.
The authenticity of these early Chertsey charters
is, as is well known, very doubtful, and in 1018 the
two vills of Mesteham (Merstham) and Cheam are
said to have been granted to Christchurch, Canterbury,
by Athelstan or Lifing, Archbishop of Canterbury. (fn. 22)
In 1086 Cheam (assessed for 20 hides in the time of
King Edward and then for 4) was held by the
archbishop for the sustenance of the monks. Later
there were apparently two estates, for West Cheam
appears in the possession of Christchurch, Canterbury,
and East Cheam as belonging to the archbishop.
WEST CHEAM.
—In 1291 the estates of Christchurch in Cheam were valued at £6 13s. 4d. (fn. 23) In
1316 the Prior of Christchurch received a grant
of free warren in his demesne lands there. (fn. 24) The
Valor Ecclesiasticus gives the farm of the manor as
£5, the rent of assize £6 6s. 8d. and the perquisites
of court as of no value. (fn. 25) Christchurch surrendered
to the king in 1540, and
West Cheam was annexed to
Hampton Court. (fn. 26)
Lumley. Or a fesse gules between three parrots vert with collars gules.
In 1563 Elizabeth for
£885 sold to the Earl of
Arundel West Cheam and
some other lands in that
neighbourhood. (fn. 27) On the
death of the Earl of Arundel his
son-in-law Sir John Lumley,
Lord Lumley, inherited the
Arundel estates in his wife's
right, and in 1609 died without issue, thus terminating
the new barony in tail-male
which had been created in his favour by the patent
of 1547, (fn. 28) when he petitioned Edward VI to reverse
the attainder of his father, who had been executed
for high treason in 1538.
The two manors then devolved on John Lord
Lumley's sister's son Splandian Lloyd, in whose family
they remained for two generations, when they were inherited by Robert Lumley
Lloyd, the famous archaeologist. He set up a claim to
the barony of 1547 (which,
however, had been granted in
tail-male), as against Viscount
Lumley, Earl of Scarborough,
the descendant of a younger
brother of the great-grandfather of John Lord Lumley
who died in 1609.
Northey. Or a fesse azure between three panthers powdered with stars argent with a rose or between two lilies argent on the fesse.
Robert Lumley Lloyd by
his will dated 29 December
1729 left the manors to the
Duke of Bedford, who sold
them inter alia on 10 May 1755 (fn. 29) for £22,340 to
Edward Northey, son of Sir Edward Northey,
attorney-general in 1710, in whose family they have
since remained. The Rev. Edward W. Northey is
now lord of the manor.
EAST CHEAM.
—The archbishop's estate at
Cheam was taxed at £10 in 1291. (fn. 30) An inquisition
taken on the lands of Archbishop Thomas in the
reign of Richard II mentions the manor of Cheam
among his possessions. (fn. 31) This manor was included
in the archbishop's bailiwick of Croydon. In 1535
the farm of the manor was £7; the perquisites of
court were of no value because no court was held. (fn. 32)
In 1538 Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, sold
the manor of East Cheam to the king, (fn. 33) who in 1540
annexed this manor amongst others (fn. 34) to the honour
of Hampton Court.
On 2 September 1554 Mary created Sir Antony
Browne Viscount Montagu and granted him lands
to sustain the dignity, amongst them East Cheam, (fn. 35)
parcel of the honour of Hampton Court. In 1575 (fn. 36)
Viscount Montagu sold the manor with view of
frankpledge pertaining to it for £200 to the Earl
of Arundel, with which the separate history of this
division closed.
The archbishop claimed return of writs, view of
frankpledge, pleas of withernam and assize of bread and
ale at Cheam. View of frankpledge is mentioned as
appurtenant to the manor in 1575. Manning and
Bray, (fn. 37) however, quoting from court rolls, say that the
tithingman, aletaster and constable were appointed at
Merstham Court, and that a common fine and borghsilver were also paid by Cheam.
The manor or reputed manor of WIGHTS is only
very occasionally mentioned. In 1523 Sir John Leigh
died seised of this manor in West Cheam. (fn. 38) In 1544
it was conveyed by Sir John Leigh to the king, (fn. 39) who
granted it with West Cheam to Henry Earl of
Arundel, and it appears in all subsequent dealings by
the Arundels and Lumleys, and follows the line of
descent of the two other manors, in which it became
merged.
CHURCH
The church of ST. DUNSTAN, erected
in 1864, stands on a new site to the north
of the former church, the east end of the
chancel of which has been preserved as a sepulchral
chapel (fn. 40) to contain the monuments and brasses of the
demolished structure. Two plans of the old church
are still extant, one made early in the 18th century,
the other in 1862. From these it would appear that
the original building consisted of a chancel with a
south chapel, a nave, a south aisle the same width as
the chapel, and a west tower; but in the 18th century—the date 1746 on a rib in the ceiling probably
gives the exact year—the south wall of the old nave
and south aisle were pulled down and a wider nave
was erected with a north aisle and south porch. The
church stood thus until the erection of the present
building, and had galleries over the aisle, the west end
and south side of the nave and along the south side
of the chapel.
What the date of the original building was is
purely a matter of conjecture, but that it was not
later than c. 1230 is testified by the arcade opening
from the chancel into the south chapel, portions of
which are still to be seen built into the west end of
the south wall of the remaining piece of the chancel.
The east window is of the 15th century and has
three cinquefoiled lights with vertical tracery under a
pointed head and splayed inner jambs. The centre
light is wider than the side lights and the foliations
are subcusped. Internally, at the east end of the
south wall the jambs of a window are visible, to the
west of which was the arcade opening into the south
chapel with pointed arches on an octagonal pier with
a respond of the same section and moulded capitals.
The easternmost of these arches is partly visible from
the outside, but the east respond is embedded in the
wall, only a small portion of a mutilated capital being
now visible; more of the capital of the first pier can
be discerned although much decayed. The lower
part of the arcade is under the ground.
Along the north and south walls is a plaster entablature with a frieze ornamented with bunches of
fruit and foliage in bold relief, while from the cornice
springs an elaborate late 16th-century plaster barrel
vault with intersecting ribs and moulded pendants,
spaced alternately in three rows, one row along the
ridge and one on either side. Towards the west
end of the chapel is a plastered tie-beam having the
main cornice returned along its sides, and a panelled
soffit enriched with vine ornament and bearing the
date 1746. The upper part of the beam above the
cornice is chamfered back, and has modelled on its
chamfers winged amorini and sea monsters. The
walls, with the exception of the modern brick west
wall, are rough-cast on the outside and plastered
internally.
Let in a stone slab in the south-east corner of the
chapel are several brasses. The earliest is set in the
head of the stone and inscribed in black letter to
John Compton, who died 16 January 1450 and Joan
his wife, 6 September 1458. Below is a brass to
William Wodeward, 'frater Rectoris hui' eccliē,'
9 January 1459. Immediately under this is the brass
figure of a late 15th or early 16th-century knight
in plate armour. The brass, which is only 6 in.
high, is very much worn. In the slab on the dexter
side of this small figure is the upper part of a woman,
and on the sinister side the head and shoulders of
a man, both with their hands in prayer and of the
early 15th century. Another brass is inscribed to
Bartholomew son and heir of Thomas Fromond,
formerly of Cheam, Surrey, who died 7 July 1579.
The brass in the foot of this slab has an inscription
to Michael Denys, who died 15 January 1578.
To the east of the large slab are two smaller ones;
the dexter slab contains four brass shields—(1) and
(2) party cheveronwise, the upper part ermine, a
cheveron between three fleurs de lis; (3) three
roundels with a label of three points over, impaling
a cheveron between three yard-sticks (Yarde); and
(4) the same impaling a checky coat. In the other
slab are two brasses, one the head and shoulders of a
man, the other of a boy, both of early 15th-century
date. At the west end of the chapel are two Purbeck
floor slabs with indents for brasses. One shows
indents for three shields and two inscriptions, and the
other for the figure of a woman with an inscription
under and four shields. Another Purbeck slab, in
the middle of the floor, has matrices for the heads
and shoulders of a man and woman and an inscription, while a much-worn slab in the east end of the
chapel has matrices for shields and what were probably
two sets of kneeling figures and an inscription. Hung
in an iron stand are several palimpsests. On the
centre brass is a shield with the arms of the see
of Lincoln, while on the reverse are the arms of
Fromond, party cheveronwise ermine and gules, a
cheveron between three fleurs de lis or quartered
with Checky argent and sable, for Ellingbridge;
impaling Gules a cheveron or between three yardsticks argent, tipped gold, for Yarde. On another
fragment are engraved two hands holding a heart,
on which is incised 'Jh[esu] est amor me'?' while above
the heart is 'Jhu . . . m'cy,' with a scroll under
inscribed 'libera me dñe de morte'; on the reverse
is a small 15th-century representation of the Trinity.
The largest brass in this frame has an English
inscription in black letter to Thomas Fromond
(21 March 1513) and Elizabeth his wife, daughter
and heiress of John Yarde. Above the inscription
are figures of the man kneeling at a desk with six
sons behind him, while on the opposite side are the
figures of his wife and four daughters. On the reverse
of the inscription is a shrouded man, while the man
with his sons and the woman with her daughters are
each made up of two earlier brasses. The reverse of
the man is the lower part of a woman kneeling at a
desk, apparently of late 15th-century date, and a
piece of canopy work with the upper part of a figure
of St. John the Evangelist with the poisoned cup.
On the reverse of the woman is a portion of the
lower part of a woman kneeling at a desk and a part
of a rudely-cut man's face.
On the north wall is an elaborate marble monument to Lord Lumley, who died in 1609. The
monument consists of a white marble base inlaid
with black marble panels and supporting at either end
black marble columns, above which is an entablature.
In the centre of the monument above the cornice is
a shield with (1) Lumley, (2) the old coat of
Lumley, Gules six martlets argent supported by
two popinjays and the crest a pelican, while over
the columns this device is repeated.
Arranged alternately on either side of the inscription are sixteen shields showing the Lumley
descents as follows:—(1) Old Lumley impaling a
saltire; (2) the same impaling a blank shield; (3)
and (4) as (2); (5) the same impaling three cups;
(6) the same impaling a saltire vair (Wallington);
(7) the same impaling Thweng; (8) to (16) new
Lumley (i.e. the new arms founded on the Thweng
coat) impaling Holland, Nevill, Reedham, Harrington, Thornton, Edward IV, Conyers, Scrope, and
Knightley. In the centre of the monument is
a panel of red-veined marble with a long Latin
inscription. Another Latin inscription below traces
the descent of the Lumleys from Liulph the Saxon.
Below the inscription are three shields : the
centre one, John Lord Lumley; the dexter,
Lumley impaling his first wife Joan Fitz Alan; the
sinister, Lumley impaling his second wife Elizabeth
Darcy.
Against the south wall is a marble monument to
Joan daughter and co-heir of Henry Earl of Arundel
and first wife of John Lord Lumley. The lower
part of the monument is rectangular on plan, with
the sides divided into panels by small Ionic pilasters,
and is covered by a flat slab. Above this base against
the wall is a panel carved in relief, with a lady in late
16th-century costume kneeling, while on either side
of the panel are short pilasters of the Corinthian
order supporting an entablature surmounted by
elaborate scrolls having popinjays as supports at
either end and crowned by a horse. In the end
panels are carved the Lumley arms with their supporters : the dexter one a popinjay, the sinister a
horse rampant holding a sprig of oak leaves in his
mouth for Arundel, while on the dexter front panels
are the figures of a boy and girl with a background
in perspective, and in the sinister that of a girl only.
The edge of the slab has an inscription in Roman
capitals.
On the north wall is an elaborate monument to Elizabeth daughter of Lord Darcy of Chich, second wife of
John Lord Lumley. It consists of two white marble
pilasters of the Doric order, standing on a base and
supporting an entablature surmounted by a panelled
frieze flanked at either end by pedestals supporting
obelisks, while over the panel are shields of arms.
Between the pilasters is a deep recess in which is the
recumbent effigy of Elizabeth daughter of Lord
Darcy. The sides and soffit of the recess are faced
with Purbeck marble, damasked with squares charged
alternately with popinjays and cinquefoils. Incised
on the west side of the recess are the arms of Lumley,
and on the east those of Darcy, while in a panel on
the back is an inscription. In the panel above the
entablature is an inscription in Roman capitals,
while on the base of the monument between an
enrichment of strapwork and foliage is another like
inscription : 'Vita est umbra brevis, qd mors nisi
mortis imago vita, morte bona vivis, Eliza Deo.'
On the east wall is a brass with a long
inscription to 'Edmund Barret Serjant of ye
wine cellar to King Charles who died in his
65th year, Augst 17° 1631, and his wife Dorothie
Apsley who bore him 3 sons, Thoms Edmund &
John, & one daughtr Constance. His second wife
Ruth Causten bore him 3 sonns, Robert, Francis &
Edward, and 2 daughtr Ruth & Margaret; also his
eldest sonn Thomas Barret Clerk of ye wardrobe to
King Charles April 28 1632 aged 36 s.p.'
On the east end of the south wall is a marble
cartouche to Frances daughter of Samuel and Ann
Peirson. She was born 30 September 1690, and
died 31 May 1693. Another elaborately carved
cartouche on this wall is to James Bovey, who died
in 1695, and Margareta his wife, who died in 1714.
The modern church consists of a chancel with an
apsidal end, north and south vestries, a nave in five
bays, north and south aisles, a tower at the west end
of the north aisle surmounted by a broach spire, and
a south porch. The building is in eclectic Gothic,
with pointed windows and arcades with columns
having capitals carved in a manner reminiscent of
early French work. The walls are externally of
rough-axed rubble with ashlar dressings, but on the
inside are faced with red bricks relieved with bands
of brick of a purple blue colour. The columns of
the arcades are of a fine grained grey stone, and the
pointed arches have stone voussoirs introduced into the
brickwork. The roofs are of pitch pine and are slated.
There is a peal of six bells. The treble is by
John Warner, 1870; the second by Thomas Mears
of London, 1835; the third and fourth by Richard
Phelps, 1714; the fifth by John Warner, 1870;
and the tenor by Pack & Chapman, 1778.
The plate consists of two silver cups, a silver paten,
a silver plate and a flagon, all of 1755, and inscribed
'The Gift of Mrs. Jane Pattenson, waiting woman
to her late Grace Diana first Wife of the Most
Noble John Duke of Bedford 1755,' and two modern
silver patens.
The registers previous to 1813 are in four volumes :
(i) from 1538 to 1728, all entries; (ii) baptisms
and burials 1729 to 1789, marriages 1729 to
1760; (iii) marriages 1760 to 1812; (iv) baptisms
and burials 1790 to 1812.
The church of ST. PHILIP, Cheam Common,
was built in 1876, and a parish was formed for it in
1906 from Cheam and Cuddington. It is of red
brick, with Bath stone dressing in quasi 13th-century
style.
There is a Roman Catholic church in the north
of the parish, a convent, St. Antony's, and a
Hospital of the Daughters of the Cross. There are
two Baptist chapels and an unsectarian missionroom.
ADVOWSON
There was a church in Cheam on
the archbishop's land at the time
of the Survey. The church seems
to have been generally called Cheam, sometimes
West Cheam. It was in the diocese of Winchester,
but was a peculiar of Canterbury, the archbishops
having the advowson. In 1538 (fn. 41) Cranmer sold to
Henry VIII the manor of East Cheam, and this
grant probably included the advowson. The Crown,
in the grant to Sir Anthony Browne, reserved the
advowson, which was granted by Elizabeth to the
Earl of Arundel, (fn. 42) and it devolved on the Lloyds
together with the manors. It was conveyed by
Henry Lloyd, alias Flood, and Henry his son to
Benjamin Holford on 1 October 1638. A fine for
this purpose was levied Michaelmas 14 Charles I.
On 22 November 1638 Laud acquitted St. John's
College, Oxford, of £400 paid by it for the purchase
of the living. On 19 December Holford conveyed
the advowson to the college for £380. (fn. 43)
It may be observed that five of the post-Reformation clergy of Cheam attained episcopal rank, viz.
Anthony Watson, rector in 1605, who became Bishop
of Chichester; Richard Senhouse, rector in 1607,
afterwards Bishop of Carlisle; Lancelot Andrewes,
rector in 1609, who became Bishop of Winchester;
George Mountain, rector in 1609, afterwards Archbishop of York; John Hackett, rector in 1609, who
became Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.
CHARITIES
Smith's charity is distributed as in
other Surrey parishes.
In 1719 Mr. Peirson left a cottage
and 3 acres of land for the relief of the poor.
In 1824 Sir Edward Antrobus gave £1,000 for
poor relief, subject to a charge for maintaining monuments. In 1872 J. T. Martin left £107 for poor
relief. There is church land producing £15 a year
for repair of the church.
The Lumley chapel fund is invested until it shall
reach £100, the income then to be devoted to the
repairs of the Lumley chapel and to poor relief.