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Description: | 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.
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.
Among other rectors of the parish:
· Dr George Holme, 1718-1765, endowed the village with its school in 1755.
· Robert Dickinsona 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. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | John Owen Smith | Subjects: | William Sympson Wallis Hay Laverty Mary Sympson tithe barn Robert Dickinson All Saints' Church house George Holme | Temporal: | start=1900-01-01; end=1904-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | John Owen Smith | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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