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St. Michael's Churchyard, Mickleham

Graveyard in Surrey, England

Church in Mickleham, England

51°16′03″N 0°19′24″W / 51.2675°N 0.3233°W / 51.2675; -0.3233Locationnear Old London Road and Swanworth Lane, Mickleham, RH5-6CountryEnglandDenominationChurch of EnglandHistoryConsecratedaround 950 to 1180ArchitectureStyleNormanYears built950–1180 (original structure)SpecificationsNumber of towers1Number of spires1AdministrationProvinceCanterburyDioceseGuildford

Listed Building – Grade II*

Official nameChurch of St MichaelDesignated28 November 1951Reference 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 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.
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

^ "Leatherhead, Surrey websites – a selection".
^ Historic England. "Church of St Michael (1028835)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
^ "History". St. Michael and All Angels Church.
^ 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 or UK public library membership required.)
^ 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 or UK public library membership required.)
^ 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 or UK public library membership required.)
^ Curthoys, M. C. "Lawrence [née Senior], Louisa (1803/4–1855), horticulturist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Leatherhead, Surrey websites – a selection".
^ 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 or UK public library membership required.)