Sutton, Essex

Sutton is a village and civil parish in the District of Rochford in Essex, England. It is located between the River Roach and the adjoining Borough of Southend-on-Sea, and includes the hamlet of Shopland. It has a population of 127,[1] increasing at the 2011 Census to 135,[2] the smallest in the District, although at the time of the Domesday Book (1086) it had a flourishing village with its own market and fair.[3]

Sutton

Sutton with Shopland village sign
Sutton
Location within Essex
Population136 (2011)
OS grid referenceTQ887893
Civil parish
  • Sutton
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townRochford
Postcode districtSS4
Dialling code01702
PoliceEssex
FireEssex
AmbulanceEast of England

The area is known locally as Sutton with Shopland. Most of the civil parish of Shopland was amalgamated with Sutton in 1933.[4] When St Mary Magdalene's church in Shopland was demolished in 1957 following wartime bomb damage, artifacts were removed and went to Sutton Church and others. Shopland churchyard is rededicated every year.[5]

All Saints' church, Sutton

Sutton Road (B1015) is approximately 3 miles (5 km) long and runs from the Anne Boleyn Public House on Southend Road in Rochford to Southchurch Road in Southend-on-Sea.

Sutton is rural with large farms, and is bordered by industrial estates on its northern (Purdeys Industrial Estate) and southern (Chandlers Way/Temple Farm Industrial Estate) borders.

Church

All Saints' Church is of Norman origin[3] and is listed at Grade II* on the National Historic List for England (NHLE).[6]

The chancel and nave dates to the early 17th century. The bell turret, to the 14th and 15th century. There are various c. 1869 and later repairs and restorations. The church is built of ragstone rubble, with Reigate and Barnack stone dressings. It has a red plain tiled roof and a cedar shingled bell turret and spirelet. Them church is unique among Essex churches inasmuch that its south door is of a rare type, with only five other churches in the county having similar doors. This door was faced to south 1869. The other examples can be found at the churches located in Castle Hedingham and Elmstead.[6]

When the nearby Shopland church was demolished in 1957, due to partial ruin from the Second World War, a medieval coffin lid and brass, dated to 1371, of Sir Thomas Stapel, Sergeant at Arms to Edward III, was moved to All Saints church in 1971.[7] The brass shows Stapel dressed in armour he would have worn at the Battle of Crecy.[3] All Saints church was declared redundant and permissible for secular use in around 2017, and the brass and slab were moved to St. Andrew's Church, Rochford, in 2018, where it was set into the north wall of the tower.[8]

References
  1. Census 2001
  2. "Civil Parish population". Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  3. Rochford District Council : District Tour
  4. A Vision of Britain Through Time : Shopland Civil Parish
  5. Barry Summerfield : Clerk to Sutton Parish Council (2009)
  6. Historic England. "CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS  (Grade II*) (1113355)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
  7. Listed Building Consent Application, Rochford District Council, 25 August 2017, pp.1–7.
  8. Monthly Bulletin, Monumental Brass Society, October 2018, pp. 764–65.

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