A guide to Churches and Graveyards in Surrey for family historians
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The Church of the Epiphany was built ca. 1950 as a Chapel of EaseA daughter church within an ecclesiastical Parish, or a chapel in an outlying area of the parish that is more convenient for parishioners to attend in the Ancient Parishan Ancient Parish is a Church of England parish which, until the 19th century, had both ecclesiastical and civil functions of Merstham St Katherine
The church closed ca 2015 because of structural problems. The was no graveyard at the Church of the Epiphany. West Surrey Family History Society holds war grave information for Merstham St Katherine plus from a single page from Cockayne's notebook of 1878. The East Surrey Family History Society has the monumental inscriptions in their bookstall; go to their web site for more information .
Search for any references to your ancestor in the Surrey Index of Names:
https://www.wsfhs.co.uk/pages/sindex/siSearch.php (opens in new browser window) or use our contact form to find out which Monumental Inscription collections might be available: https://surreychurches.org.uk/contact WSFHS CD10(Surrey Burial Index) has burial records for Merstham St. Katherine from 1541 to 1865. See our sales page for more information (opens in a new page). The church is in the Church of England Diocese of Southwark. The Southwark Diocesan Record Office for churches and parishes in the modern administrative county of Surrey, and those London Boroughs that were in Surrey until 1965, is the Surrey History Centre. This is where you should find any surviving parish registers, Merstham is a village in the Reigate and Banstead district of Surrey
Unless otherwise stated the dates for the creation of parishes are taken from Youngs, Frederick. A., Guide to the Administrative Units of England; Royal Historical Society: London, 1979 volume 1 Southern England.
The Reigate and Banstead Index will show you all the churches and cemeteries we know of in the Reigate and Banstead District. If we have missed any or you are looking for a church or graveyard that might no longer exist do please let us know using the email at the bottom of this page If you came to this page from our main index to churchyards If you came from the Reigate and Banstead page use the button at the top of this page to close the page and go back to the Reigate and Banstead index. |
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