Surrey Churches Index



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Dormansland, Baptist Chapel

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image of Baptist chapel



There were a group of worshipers in Dormansland from around 1775. The first chapel opened around 1786. It was subsequanrlty enlarged and then in 1817 rebuilt on the same site.
  • Chambers, Ralph (1952). The Strict Baptist Chapels of England: Surrey and Hampshire. Vol. 1.; and
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_of_worship_in_Tandridge_District consulted 8 July 2025
WSFHS has war grave information for the Dormansland Baptist Chapel.

There was a small graveyard attached to the chapel. The registers are held, along with other records, at the Surrey History Centre


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Older burials may also have taken place in the Church of England burial grounds.

The Baptist Church stands in the Anglican ecclesiastical parishesan ecclesiastical parish is an administrative area within the Church of England or Roman Catholic church. It is distinct from the civil parish, a local government unit in England of Dormansland, St. John the Evangelist.

Until 1885 Dormansland was part of the Ancient Parishan Ancient Parish is a Church of England parish which, until the 19th century, had both ecclesiastical and civil functions of Lingfield St Peter & St Paul

West Surrey Family History Society CD10(Surrey Burial Index) has burial records for Lingfield St Peter & St Paul from 1561 to 1865.

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West Surrey FHS CD15(Surrey Baptisms Not in the IGI) has baptismal records for Lingfield St Peter & St Paul from 1813 to 1840.

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Dormansland is a (civil) parisha Civil Parish is the bottom most tier of local government in England Sometimes called Town Councils in urban areas

[NB Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have different systems of local government]
in the Tandridge 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.




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