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Headley Church and Rectory in 1931
The front of the old Rectory taken from the Rectory Field, where the current Church Centre and Rectory now stand. |
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All Saints' Church and Rectory, 1931 |
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All Saints' Rectory in the 1920s |
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The back of the old Rectory, taken in the 1920s
The extension on the left was added by Mr Ballantine Dykes (Rector 1848-1872), who said he intended to have a large family. It was taken down in 1965. The conservatory has also been removed. |
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Pond in front of the Tithe Barn, c.1903
The Tithe Barn is out of shot to the right of the picture. The Rectory can be seen in the background, behind the smaller building.
A valuation of 1783 describes the Rectory as: "A very good house, consisting of two parlours and hall, a kitchen and pantry on the ground floor; four bed-chambers, six garrets, four underground cellars, with a brew-house, milk-house, and other convenient offices; also of two spacious barns, a stable, cow-pens, granary, waggon-house, fuel-house, ash-house, etc. The gardens, yard and rick-yard amount to about one and three-quarter acres." |
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Tithe Barn pond, about 1903 |
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Loading at the Tithe Barn, c.1903
A tithe barn was originally used to store the tenth of their produce that the farmers had to pay to the Rector as part of his stipend. After payment in kind was commuted to money, the barn was used for storage and market gardening purposes.
Sold in 1965, along with the kitchen garden behind it, to raise money for the modernisation of the rectory, the Tithe Barn has now been sympathetically converted into a dwelling house. |
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There is a stone let into the wall over what was the stable door, with the date 1680 and the letters S.W.M. These are thought to be the initials of William and Mary Sympson. He was Rector from 1673 to 1695.
We have a record of the names of the rectors of Headley going back to the year 1314, when Walter de Brolnesbourne was presented with the living by the Priory of Merton, replacing one Geoffrey de Hoville.
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Tithe Barn, about 1903 |
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Among other rectors of the parish:-
Dr George Holme, 1718-1765, endowed the village with its school in 1755.
Robert Dickinson-'a jolly big old farmer who suffered from ill-health'-was mobbed by rioters in 1830.
Wallis Hay Laverty has been our longest-serving rector, holding the office for 56 years from 1872 until his death in December 1928. |
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Introduction
Rectory and Tithe Barn
