So it was that in 1835 the church of St. Paul's was erected here at Salisbury, to serve the spiritual needs of a population of some 1100 people. The building was initially termed a Chapel of Ease within the Titchfield Parish, and was built on land formally known as Titchfield Common. In a conveyance dated the 1st September 1833 the Lord of the Manor of Titchfield, Henry Peter Delme conveyed to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners sufficient area of the Common to establish a Chapel, Burial Ground, Parsonage house with Glebe land, to be situated along the Eastern edge of Sarisbury Green.
The original District assigned to the Chapel at Sarisbury in 1837 included the additional villages of Hook, Warsash, Locksheath, Swanwick, Burridge and Curbridge. However as the population in these areas increased over the years, it was decided that the District would be sub-divided into smaller parishes; firstly in 1871 Hook with Warsash, where the church of St. Mary's was built, and then in 1895 the parish of Locksheath, following the building of the church of St John the Baptist. Burridge and Curbridge remained in the Parish of Sarisbury with Swanwick. However in 1892 following a bequest from Charlotte Hornby, the small mission church of St. Barnabas was erected at Curbridge and this church continues in use to the present day.
The original cost of St. Paul's Church, Sarisbury was £1650, the money being raised mainly from public subscriptions, farther assisted by grants from the Diocese of Winchester, and also the Incorporated Society for Promoting the Building and Enlarging of Churches. Seating was provisioned for a congregation of 440 people. The original Chapel was designed by a Southampton architect, George Guillaume and consisted of an open aspect Nave with North and South Transepts. A bell tower incorporating a small gallery was positioned at the Western end of the Nave, with the main door facing onto the Village Green.
At the published coordinates there is a sign (no longer in place see final waypoint for GZ,
Revd. Sandy Matheson's phone number is ABCDE FGHJKL
The cache is located at (See final waypoint)
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