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in the church in 1871. It is thus probable that Brindley & Foster took the instrument over from its original builder, enlarged and renovated it. The organ was removed in 1885 from its original location in the gallery at the back of the nave and re-installed on the ground behind the choir stalls.
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organ, thought to date from the early 1870s, was dismantled for restoration in 1973. After examining the mechanical action, the restorers, Bishop and Sons, determined that the organ was built before 1830. However, an account in a church magazine from the 1870s indicates that the organ was installed
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removed them from the tower, repaired the cracked bells and then sent them all to the Whitechapel Bell Foundry for re-tuning. Thereafter the bells were rehung with new wheels, headstocks and other fittings, and reconsecrated by Bishop
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in the 16th century the rectory passed into lay hands, and from 1725 to 1844 belonged to the Coussmaker family of Westwood, Surrey. In 1842, when Staines parishioners commuted (ended the main financial liability for and converted) the
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There is a misconception that the first church on this site was built in AD 685. The earliest written evidence of a church building is dated 1179, but it may have existed by 1100.
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remains have been found at Church Island 200 metres (660 ft) south of the church, which before the navigability of the Thames was accessible in times of low flow by a ford.
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was passed allowing what remained of the old church to be blown up. In 1827 the last remnants of the earlier St Mary's were destroyed. The present
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the stone pinnacles of the tower were removed as unsafe, possibly due to a bomb landing in Wraysbury Road during the war.
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and built in 1631. A large part of the body of the church collapsed in the 1820s, so a new chancel was begun after a
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The mound on which the church stands commands views over its wide spur of land between the discharge of the
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with three windows was added to the chancel and the organ was moved to its current position. After the
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nave was designed by John Burges Watson and building began the following year. In 1885 a semicircular
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The oldest surviving part of the church is the tower, on which a plaque says it was designed by
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The chest tomb of George Hawkins (died 1761) and his wife Elizabeth is
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on the parish's landowners has been since, technically, apportioned.
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A 1999 survey revealed cracks in three of the bells, so in 2002
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Fiscal history of the church until the commutation of the tithes
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One of the 19th-century windows in the apse was given by the
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18th-century chest tomb of George and Elizabeth Hawkins
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St Mary's, Staines is located in Surrey
51°26′11″N 0°31′08″W / 51.4364°N 0.5188°W / 51.4364; -0.5188
United Kingdom
Denomination
Church of England
St. Mary
Dedication
St Mary
Architect(s)
Style
Gothic Revival
Diocese
London
Kensington
Archdeaconry
Middlesex
Parish
Vicar(s)
Church of England parish church
Staines-upon-Thames
Spelthorne
Surrey
Greater London Urban Area
Archdeaconry of Middlesex
Diocese of London
Thames
Grade II* listed building
Colne
Thames

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