Isfield, Sussex

Description
Isfield, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village stands near the river Onse, 2 miles SW by S of Uckfield, and has a station on the LB. & S.C.R., 49 from London. It has a post and telegraph office under Uckfield; money order office, Uckfield. Acreage, 1895; population, 423. Isfield Place was once a beautiful mansion, the seat of the Shurleys, was surrounded by a moat and by a lofty wall, with a kind of watch-tower at each corner, and still has the Shurley arms and mottoes over the door. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Chichester; net value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is Early Decorated English, was restored in 1876, and comprises nave and chancel. The tower was restored and raised and a spire added in 1894. On the S side of the church there is a chapel of the Shurleys, containing an elaborate altar-tomb of Sir John Shurley of 1631, and interesting monuments and brasses of other Shurleys.