Worthing St George, Sussex Genealogy

England Sussex

Parish History
The church of ST. GEORGE, off Church Walk, was consecrated in 1868, and a district assigned to it from Broadwater. The patronage of the vicarage was sold in 1903 by the rector of Broadwater to the Patronage Trust of the National Protestant Church Union, later merged in the Church Society, which held it in 1976. A vicarage house recorded c. 1876 had been lost by 1884, but a new vicarage was provided in Selden Road before 1907.

In 1884 St. George's had two Sunday services and a monthly children's service, afternoon communion, and regular baptisms. Communion was celebrated thrice monthly in 1903. The church remained largely isolated until the development of the surrounding area for building was completed in the 20th century. A mission room opened in Newland Road in 1883 was recorded until c. 1925. Another mission room in Ham Road was recorded from c. 1891 to 1910. The Emmanuel mission church in Brougham Road was licensed in 1911 and became a church hall in 1976, when the new Emmanuel church was dedicated next to it.

St. George's church was built to the design of George Truefitt, and is of stone. At first it comprised an apsidal chancel and nave, on a northsouth axis, and a bell-turret. A new vestry and two new porches were added in 1875, and a transept had been added by 1884.

Civil Registration
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Church records
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Census records
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Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Sussex Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

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Web sites
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