A-Z Challenge 2024 - Cuckfield, my One Place Study

This marks my inaugural participation in the #AtoZChallenge for bloggers. Commencing on April 1st, readers will encounter daily posts (excluding Sundays) centered around my One Place Study of Cuckfield.

Each post will delve into the rich tapestry of people, places, events, local history, and family heritage associated with Cuckfield in the county of Sussex, England.

Throughout the month, we will navigate the alphabet, embarking on a journey from A on the 1st to Z on the 30th. Brace yourselves! I anticipate that the more challenging letters will prompt both your creativity in conjuring blog ideas I might use and my own quest to find intriguing content for you.

Once the event concludes, I may pen a reflective post.

I hope you find the posts enjoyable and informative and please, do comment and follow my blog and visit my website, Cuckfield Compendium

I shall be tweeting these on X (also known as Twitter).

Vicar of Holy Trinity

Canon James H Cooper was born August 1841 and died July 1909. He is buried in the churchyard.

He served his first curacy, for five years in HT Cuckfield. He had been Rector of Tarporly in Cheshire prior to him becoming the incumbent of Holy Trinity. He took up his duties as vicarin 1888 until 1909 during which time the church renovation continued with Kempe glazing some of the windows; the Gensis window in the north west of the north aisle and the St Richard window in the north tower.

During his incumbency there had been 13 Assistant Curates and a fund was set up to provide stipends for them as previously this had been paid by the vicar. The curates were largely responsible for the mission churches in Brook St and Ansty. An appeal was set up for providing and residence for the curates.

He was a great historian and transcribed many of the ancient parish registers and other papers which eventually formed the basis of the book “A History of the Parish of Cuckfield” by his son, Wilbraham.

More details about the Vicars at Holy Trinity, Cuckfield can be found here.