Binstead - Kelly 1935 - Commercial and Private entries- Page 1

Bouvet Very Rev. Dom Emile O.S.B. (Roman Catholic) (prior), Quarr Abbey

Campbell Capt. J. H. D. M., Quarrhurst

Clarke Col. Stephenson Robert C.B., J.P. (Sussex), Binstead house

Colledge Mrs. Constance Ethel, Fishbourne

Dorrien-Smith Misses, Fishbourne house, Fishbourne

Fox George Frederick, The Cottage, Fishbourne

Grimes Mrs. Helen, Quarrthorpe

Newland Miss Mabel, The Pitts

Orlebar Mrs. Agnes Dorothy Vere, Crossways

Pollard Evelyn William, The Quarry

Sinanian Miss, Quarrwood

Stooks Rev. Cecil Sumner M.A. (rector), The Rectory

Tattnall Misses I. H. & M. H., Wellwood

Ward Arthur Bartlett, Oakdene, Fishbourne

Burden Sydney V. A. grocer

Cemetery (Thomas J. Fawdry, clerk; L. De L. Venus, supt)

Chatfield William, motor engineer, Fishbourne garage, Fishbourne lane, Fishb ourne

Cleaver Thomas Alfred, farmer & valuation officer to Isle of Wight Rural District Council, Newnham farm

Cooper F. T. & Son, bakers

Fleming Albert Edward, shopkeeper & post office

Fleming Henry Alfred, farmer, Quarr Abbey farm

Glover H. & G. farmers, Puckhouse farm

Gosden Frederick, motor cycle repairer, King's Road garage

Gosden Jane (Mrs.), newsagent. Rossway

Hapgood Bros., boat builders, Fishbourne

Hayles William & Charles, boat builders, Fishbourne

Herrington William, shopkeeper

James Henry builder, Glenroy & farmer, Binstead Lodge farm

Lowe Wallace, dairyman

Marshall George, Fleming Arms P.H.

Parnell Margaret (Miss), upholstress, 7 Chapel road

Perkis Reginald Leslie, butcher, Binstead road

Pickering Frederick, Fishbourne inn, Fishbourne

Ratcliffe William, boot repairer, Binstead hill

Reading Room & Workmen's club (T. A. Cleaver, hon. sec.)

Salter Charles, farmer, Ashlake farm

Squibb Daniel, builder

Tuck Gordon, blacksmith

Venus Ernest De Leacey, builder

White Charles, oil merchant, 6 King's road

BINSTEAD is a parish on the coast, 1 mile west from Ryde and about 6 miles east-north-east from Newport.

The church of the Holy Cross, rebuilt in 1844, is an edifice of stone in the Early Decorated style, there is a brass memorial tablet bearing the names of the men connected with the parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-18 : the church affords 240 sittings. In the churchyard is a tombstone carved with the representation of a boat in chase of a sloop, and an inscription to Thomas Sivell, a smuggler, who was cruelly shot on board his sloop by the Customs officers of Portsmouth, 15 June, 1785.

There is a Methodist chapel here.

A cemetery, containing about an acre, with mortuary chapel, was formed in 1856; the land was presented by John B. Willis-Fleming esq. (d. 1872) ; it is under the control of the Parish Council.

A reading room was erected in 1893 by Lt. H. Gartside Tipping, in memory of his uncle.

Quarr Abbey, the scanty ruins of which stand in this parish, was founded by Baldwin de Redvers in 1131 (32 Hen. I.) for monks of the Cistercian order, and dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin. In 1340, ..The whole site was almost completely excavated in 1891 by Mr. Percy Goddard Stone F.R.I.B.A. ; and the foundations of the buildings on the east and south sides of the cloisters were readily made out, some part of their fabric remaining in situ. The abbey was surrendered, c. 1535, by William Rippon, the last abbot, the revenues being then estimated at about GBP184, and it was sold in 37 Hen. VIII. (1545-6) to the Mills family, who demolished the buildings and sold the materials; the site was purchased, temp. Jas. 1. by Sir Thomas Fleming kt. Chief Justice of the King's Bench, who died 7 Aug. 1613, and was buried at North Stoneham ; the male branch of this family failed in the last century; the property then passed to the descendants of the distinguished antiquary, Browne Willis LL.D., F.S.A. and is now held by John E. A. Willis-Fleming esq. D.L., J.P. Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane K.C.B. purchased in 1858 a part of the property, and erected there a stone house, which, considerably enlarged with brick buildings in 1908, is now occupied by about 40 monks of the Benedictine order from Solesmes, France. Named St. Mary's Priory of Quarr, it is commonly called Quarr Abbey because of its proximity to the ancient monastery. The monastery church, which is of architectural interest on account of its broad pointed arches, is open to the public. The monks use only the old Gregorian plain-song in their daily offices. The Very Rev. Dom Emile Bouvet O.S.B. is prior.

John E. A. Willis-Fleming esq. D.L., J.P. is lord of the manor and chief landowner.

At the top of Binstead hill is a cross, on the base of which are engraved the names of the Binstead men who fell in the Great War, 1914-18.

The population in 1931 was 906.

By the Isle of Wight Review Order, 1933, part of this parish was transferred to the parish and borough of Ryde and the remainder to the parish and borough of Newport.