Horley Objects

Not the most inspiring of titles for a blog but this is a miscellany of objects that do not seem to fit into any other category.

First three old post boxes - most in Horley date from Queen Elizabeth's reign but here are a few older ones from George V, this one on Horley Row:

this one built into the station,

and this one on Massetts Road just before the junction with Brighton Road.

There are a couple of milestones that I know about in Horley on the A23.

First is on Bonehurst Road just north of the junction with Ladbroke Road opposite the now defunct Chequers Hotel. According to the Milestone Society  http://www.milestonesociety.co.uk/aboutmilestones.html it is a Reigate iron casting.

The second is opposite the Lych Gate to St Barts - another Reigate iron casting - it could do with a clean!

The Horley Millennium Mosaic is in the High Street pedestrianised area. It was commissioned by Horley Town Council to commemorate the Millennium and unveiled on 2 December 2000.The mosaic was designed and made by the Mosaic Workshop in Holloway Road, London, and paid for by Mitchells, who were celebrating their centenary that year. 

This is a view from the north looking south with Gatwick's runway in the distance.

A closer look at Horley, the railway clearly visible and Yattendon School near the centre.

Almost lost in the grass verge at the junction of Russells Crescent with Victoria Road in front of the hoarding to the new Russell Square development, a George V gas main marker (I think).

This is a photograph of the sculpture at entrance to the  Langshott Estate which I took five years ago on 30 January 2010, see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1686147

When I uploaded it to the Geograph website I said 'The sculpture, called 'In The Park', is a by Sydney Harpley RA. It was commissioned by Wates Homes, the builders of the estate. Originally it included a small dog at the feet of the family but in the way of all good things it was stolen many years ago!'

The same view today is a little different, the plaque is still there -

but that is all....

Idyllic Countryside - soon to become houses?

Coming Soon – An exciting development of forty (TBC) plots in idyllic countryside surroundings off Meath Green Lane - so says Marden Homes Ltd website http://www.mardenhomes.co.uk/meath-green-lane-horley-surrey/

The numbers refer to the pictures below which show the view as of January 2015.

 

LOCATION: Landens Buildings Meath Green Lane Horley Surrey RH6 8HZ
PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT: Refurbishment and conservation of existing farm buildings to form 9 new dwellings; demolition of existing bungalow, other outbuildings and structures; construction of 29 new dwellings, with associated garaging, boundary treatments, hard and soft landscaping. Application for Listed Building Consent for demolition of outbuildings and removal of haha wall.

Landens Farm House was Grade II listed on 2 December 2014. According to the British Listed Buildings website http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-361748-landen-s-horley-surrey
the north west wing of the building is late  C16  and marked on the 1602 map of Horley as the property of John Bayall of London, which gave the name Landen's (a corruption of London).

Lee Street and St Barts

This is the first entry in what I hope will be a record of places and some events in Horley in 2015 together with some photos taken in earlier years. This first set of photos was taken on 2 January 2015 during a walk with Skye (Labrador, soon to be 9 years old, who will no doubt feature in later blogs).
Quotes are put in italics and I have referenced website where appropriate. 

Lee Street Burial Ground

There is a plaque which gives the history of the Burial Ground.

It reads:

"LEE STREET BURIAL GROUND 

In 1846 six members of the Strict and Particular Baptists built a chapel at the southern end of this site. The remainder of the site was used as a burial ground for worshippers at the chapel and commenced with the burial of Emma Pollard on 6 June 1852. The last burial was that of Jessie Nicol Jones on 14 November 1969. In November 1994 Reigate and Banstead Borough Council acquired the site and designated it as a garden of remembrance for those buried here to enable their decendants (sic), relatives and friends to sit and remember them."

St Bartholomew's Church

Parts of the church date from the fourteenth century although it was heavily restored by A W Blomfield in 1881-2 and the south aisle, west porch and organ chamber and vestry were added in 1900. It now consists of an aisled nave, chancel, south east organ chamber and vestry, north west tower with shingled spire, and north and west porches. http://www.southwark.anglican.org/parishes/123l1  St Bartholomew’s is a Grade 1 Listed Building

The lychgate opens out onto the main A23 and commemorates those killed in the Boer War - a carved inscription on the south side reads "To the glory of God and in memory of our fellow parishioners who fell in the South African War 1899-1902", with names inscribed on both sides of the lychgate.

To the south of the church is the Old Horley Churchyard which contains a number of wonderfully evocative memorials.