St. Michael's Churchyard, Mickleham

St. Michael's Church, Mickleham
51°16′03″N0°19′24″W / 51.2675°N 0.3233°W / 51.2675; -0.3233
Location	near Old London Road and Swanworth Lane, Mickleham, RH5-6
Country	England
Denomination	Church of England
History
Consecrated	around 950 to 1180
Architecture
Style	Norman
Years built	950–1180 (original structure)
Specifications
Number of towers	1
Number of spires	1
Administration
Province	Canterbury
Diocese	Guildford
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official name	Church of St Michael
Designated	28 November 1951
Reference no.	1028835

St. Michael's Churchyard is the church and graveyard located in Mickleham, Surrey, England, belonging to the Church of England parish of Mickleham.

History

The church building dates back to the Anglo-Saxon and Norman period from 950 to 1180, but some changes to the building were made in 1823, 1842, 1872 and 1891. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Notable burials

There are 867 recorded burials, but more are accounted for since 1891, not including those from 950 to 1891. The graveyard is the final resting place of

• Philippa Walton (1674/5–1749), businesswoman and gunpowder factory owner ^[4]
• Thomas Grissell (1801–1874), public works contractor ^[5]
• Anne Manning (1807–1879), novelist ^[6]
• Maria Kinnaird (1810–1891), widow of Thomas Drummond.
• Trefor Jones (1908 - 1984), Headmaster of The Latymer School
• Trevor Lawrence (1831–1913), had famous orchid houses at Burford Lodge in the parish. He was the grandfather of Cyril Hare's wife. ^[7]
• Richard Bedford Bennett (1870–1947), Prime Minister of Canada and a member of the House of Lords. Bennett's grave is located steps from the front of the church doors and has a marker from the Government of Canada signifying the important figure buried there. ^[8]
• John Norton-Griffiths (1871–1930), "Empire Jack", the driving force behind the Tunnelling companies of the Royal Engineers in WW1, was buried here on 18 October 1930.
• James Jeans (1877–1946), physicist, astronomer, mathematician ^[9]
• Graham Gilmour (1885–1912), pioneer aviator. Killed in a plane crash in Richmond Park.
• Cyril Hare (1900–1958), detective story writer, who was born in Mickleham Hall in 1900 and died at Westhumble in the parish in 1958.
• Janet Gladys Aitken (1908–1988), socialite
• John Junor (1919–1997), controversial editor of the Sunday Express and The Mail on Sunday.

References

1. "Leatherhead, Surrey websites – a selection".
2. Historic England. "Church of St Michael (1028835)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 14 November 2019.
3. "History". St. Michael and All Angels Church.
4. Fairclough, K. R. "Walton [née Bourchier], Philippa (1674/5–1749), gunpowder manufacturer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/48262.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
5. Port, M. H. "Grissell, Thomas (1801–1874), public works contractor". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/49437.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
6. Armstrong, Mary A. "Major-generals (act. 1655–1657)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/17969.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
7. Curthoys, M. C. "Lawrence [née Senior], Louisa (1803/4–1855), horticulturist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
8. "Leatherhead, Surrey websites – a selection".
9. Meadows, A. J. "Jeans, Sir James Hopwood (1877–1946), mathematician and astronomer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34164.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)

External links

• St. Michael's Churchyard, Mickleham at Find a Grave