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SUNDON, a parish in the hundred of FLITT, county of BEDFORD, 4¾ miles (N.W. by N.) from Luton, containing 387 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Bedford, and diocese of Lincoln, rated in the king's books at £8. 6. 8., endowed with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of J. R. Cuthbert, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is partly in the decorated style of architecture. A market and fair, formerly held by royal grant in 1316, have been long disused.
[A Topographical Dictionary of England - Samuel Lewis - 1831]
The 1851 Census Index for Sundon can be found in the 1851 Index to Census of Bedfordshire, Volume 7, Book 1 available from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.
Church of England
The church of St. Mary is an ancient edifice, chiefly in the Decorated style, and consisting of Perpendicular chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, south chapel or transept and a western tower containing one bell: the font is Early English, and there is an interesting Decorated chest, and on the south door a lock of the same date: there are stone seats round the north aisle, and in part round the south aisle: there are a few marble tablets, inscribed to Catherine Faldo, 1697; Thomas Cheyne esq. 1717; Elizabeth Cheyne, 1700; and Thomas Cheyne, 1677-8 : during some repairs to the floor of the south transept an arched vault was discovered, containing two velvet-covered coffins, respectively inscribed, on silver plates, to the Right Hon. William Clayton, Baron Sundon, of Ardagh, and M.P. for St. Mawes, who died April 29, 1752; and to Lady Charlotte, his wife, who died Jan. 1, 1741: in 1897 these plates were erected as mural tablets: there are 300 sittings. The register dates from the year 1582.
[Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
Non-conformist
Here are Wesleyan and Baptist chapels.
[Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
Church of England
The parish record transcripts for St. Mary, are available on microfiche for the period 1582-1812 from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.
LOWER SUNDON consists of the vicarage, a handsome house in the Elizabethan style, two farm-houses and a few cottages.
[Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
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