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RINGMER is a village and parish, on the road from Lewes to Hailsham,
3 miles from Lewes and 48 by road from London, in the Southern division
of the county, Ringmer hundred, Lewes petty sessional division and county
court district, Pevensey rape, Lewes union, rural deanery of Lewes (first
division) and archdeaconry of Lewes and diocese of Chichester. The church
of St. Mary the Virgin is of stone in the Perpendicular style, and has
a tower, containing 8 bells and a clock; the church was restored in 1884-5,
at a cost £3,002 and the tower re-built at the same date, W. F. Martin,
of Ringmer, being the builder; the edifice contains numerous monuments
and several brasses, and affords 400 sittings. The register commences
in the year 1560. The living is a vicarage; net yearly value £250, with
residence, in the gift of the archbishop of Canterbury, and held since
1891 by the Rev. Frank Barrow Gribbell B.D. Cantuar. Col. Duncan is the
lay rector and impropriator of the great tithes. Here is a Congregational
chapel. Miss Hays' charity, 1787, producing about £336 yearly, is divided
between the poor of Ringmer and Glynde; about £30 from Cheney's charity
is expended yearly in the maintenance of an almshouse, and Thomas's and
Stapeley's charity of £10 yearly is applied to educational purposes. Delves
House, an ancient building, the property of Aubrey Balliol de Putron esq.
is at present occupied by the Rev. Walter Alfred Errington M.A. (curate).
Oaklands, the property of W.L. Christie esq. is at present occupied by
Henry S. Cotton esq. Broyle Place, an ancient mansion, of which only a
portion now remains, is occupied as a farmhouse. The South Down Hunt Steeplechases
are held here in April, and are well attended; the course is near Broyle
mill. Here are also the kennels of the South Down fox hounds, consisting
of upwards of 50 couples, of which the Hon. Charles Brand is master. The
pack hunts four times a week. Brighton, Uckfield and Lewes are convenient
places for hunting visitors. William Langham Christie esq. of Glyndebourne,
who is lord of the manor, Lord Monk Bretton and Sir James Duke bart. of
Laughton, are the principal landowners. The soil is clay; subsoil, chalk.
The chief crops are wheat and beans. The area is 5,626 acres; rateable
value, £7,875 ; the population in 1891 was 1,497. Post, M.O. & T.O., T.M.O., Express Delivery, Parcel Post, S.B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. - William John Wilmshurst, sub-postmaster, Ringmer green. Letters arrive through Lewes 7 a.m. & 4 p.m.; dispatched at 1 & 6.30 & 8 p.m. on week days, & 11 a.m. on sundays & 11 a.m. & 8 p.m. on Bank holidays A School Board of 5 members was formed 16 Dec. 1875 : John Miles, 73 High street, Lewes, clerk to the board ; Frank Washer, attendance officer Board School, built in 1879, for 230 children, & enlarged in 1893 for an additional 70 children; average attendance, mixed department, 179; infants' department, 79; Martin Luther Jackson, master; Mrs. M.L. Jackson, infants' mistress Carrier to Lewes.- William Turner, daily; others pass through |
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PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Benbow Hy. D.S.O., R.N. Merton ho COMMERCIAL. Andrew George Lovering, farmer, Plashett farm |