The Banstead Image Library
The Old Vicarage, Banstead
This is a postcard view of the Old Vicarage in Banstead High Street, and you can see the spire of All Saints Church on the right.
BHRG’s book ‘Banstead: A History’ (1993) provides some interesting details about the Old Vicarage. It had three floors, nine bedrooms, a drawing room, study, dining room, kitchen, larder, parlour and scullery.
In the end, it was way too large for its purpose, so in the 1930s the house and grounds were sold off and a new vicarage was built in Garratts Lane. Both properties are now long gone, of course, and 1930 is an estimated date for the postcard; it may have been a little earlier.
Picture added on 19 July 2022 at 10:35
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Thank you, I am piecing together some family history and it would be great to have a photo of our home back then. I believe the old building probably doesn't even exist now but maybe someone in the parish would have an old photo.
Reply from LNW: Rosemary, I have sent you some information via email. Please confirm when you have received it.
We also have film of the laying of the foundation stone on 3 April 1937.
Reply from LNW: Rosemary, I have sent you some information via email. Please confirm when you have received it.
We also have film of the laying of the foundation stone on 3 April 1937.
Added by Rosemary Houghton on 08 April 2025
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My father was Frederick Schofield, vicar at All Saints Banstead, during the 1960s.
Note from LNW: Hi Rosemary. That's an interesting question, as I don't think I have ever seen one, but I will ask our members. In the meantime, someone here might come up with one. Your father was the Vicar between 1954 and 1972 and is listed in our History of All Saints Church publication.