Editing Cheam (section)

==Places of worship==
[[File:St Dunstan's church (4), Cheam, London Borough of Sutton.jpg|thumb|St Dunstan's Church]]
St Dunstan's Church is the area's [[parish church]], situated in Cheam Village, next to Lumley Chapel. St Paul's Howell Hill is on Northey Avenue at the far west of the town, although it is actually in the borough of Epsom and Ewell. It is known locally due to its prominent presence on a roundabout and its contemporary design. Towards the eastern end of Northey Avenue is St Andrew's United Reformed Church, a grade II listed<ref>{{NHLE|num=1246136|desc=St Andrew's United Reformed Church|access-date=12 January 2023|mode=cs2|fewer-links=yes}}</ref> building designed by [[Maxwell Ayrton]] in 1933. Cheam Baptist Church, founded by [[Charles Spurgeon]] in 1862,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Local Church: Cheam Baptist Church - Cheered by Gospel Growth and the Compelling Evidence for Jesus |url=http://www.john-stevens.com/2013/05/local-church-cheam-baptist-church.html |access-date=2025-03-14 |language=en-GB}}</ref> is located next to St Dunstan's Church. Cheam Methodist Church is in the east of the town just off the A217 and is also home to Sutton Schoolswork, the local Christian schools charity working in the borough of Sutton.

===St Dunstan's Church===
The parish church of [[Dunstan|St. Dunstan]] is Grade II* listed.<ref>{{NHLE|num=1065676|desc=Church of St Dunstan|access-date=28 March 2016|mode=cs2|fewer-links=yes}}</ref> It was built in Cheam Village in 1864 next to [[Lumley Chapel]] on the site of a medieval church. It was built with [[Kentish ragstone]] below pitched slate roofs, with dressings to windows and doors in [[Bath Stone]]. It was designed by [[F. H. Pownall]] in the [[Gothic revival]] architectural style, and features [[polychrome brickwork]] decoration internally.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About the church - Cheam, St Dunstan - A Church Near You |url=https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/589/page/230/view/ |access-date=2023-04-02 |website=www.achurchnearyou.com |language=en}}</ref> The [[lychgate]], dated 1891, at the entrance to the churchyard, is listed Grade&nbsp;II.<ref>{{NHLE |num= 1357594|desc= Lychgate in the Churchyard of St Dunstan's, Sutton|access-date= 20 August 2013|mode=cs2|fewer-links=yes}}</ref> In the churchyard are three tombs which are Grade&nbsp;II listed.
<ref>{{NHLE |num= 1382344|desc= The tomb of Fleetwood Dormer d. 1736 in the Churchyard of St Dunstan's, Sutton|access-date= 20 August 2013|mode=cs2|fewer-links=yes}}</ref><ref>{{NHLE |num= 1382345|desc= The tomb of William Farmer c.1815 in the Churchyard of St Dunstan's, Sutton|access-date= 20 August 2013|mode=cs2|fewer-links=yes}}</ref><ref>{{NHLE |num= 1382351|desc= The tomb of Christian and Henry Neale d. 1675 and Eliza Dutton d. 1687 in the Churchyard of St Dunstan's, Sutton|access-date= 20 August 2013|mode=cs2|fewer-links=yes}}</ref>

The graveyard attached to this church was twice subject to a {{convert|6|ft|m|adj=on}} archaeological excavation by the police, first between June and September 2012, and again from April 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/graveyard-searched-for-signs-of-lee-boxell-who-went-missing-in-sutton-24-years-ago-8162602.html|title=Graveyard searched for signs of Lee Boxell, who went missing in Sutton|date=2012-09-21|website=Evening Standard|language=en|access-date=2019-05-11}}</ref> This excavation was conducted in order to uncover evidence in the investigation into the unsolved [[disappearance of Lee Boxell]], a fifteen-year-old local schoolboy, in 1988. The church was home to an informal youth club in the 1980s, known as 'The Shed'.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-21469464|title=Paedophiles active when boy vanished|date=2013-02-15|access-date=2019-05-11|language=en-GB}}</ref>

===Lumley Chapel===
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[[File:The Lumley Chapel, Cheam - geograph.org.uk - 915125.jpg|thumb|left|Lumley Chapel]]
Situated next to St Dunstan's Church, [[Lumley Chapel]] is the oldest standing building in the [[London Borough of Sutton]], and contains many notable monuments to local families.

Following the construction of the new St Dunstan's church in 1864, the older church on the site was demolished, other than the east end of the chancel, which was retained to contain the monuments and [[monumental brasses|brasses]] from the old church. This remnant of the former church is now known as the Lumley Chapel.<ref name=vch>{{citation |url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43051#s5|title= Parishes: Cheam|access-date= 30 March 2011|editor1-last= Malden|editor1-first= H. E.|work= A History of the County of Surrey|volume = 4|year=1912 |series = [[Victoria County History]] |publisher= University of London & History of Parliament Trust |pages= 194–199}}</ref><ref name=hg>{{NHLE|num=1183440 |desc=Remains of Old Church of St Dunstan, Now known as the Lumley Chapel, Sutton |year=2011 |access-date=18 April 2011 |mode=cs2|fewer-links=yes}}</ref> It is constructed in partly [[roughcast]] [[rubble]] stone and brick, and has a gabled tile roof.<ref name=hg/> The east window dates from the 15th&nbsp;century and has three lights. In the south wall is the blocked [[arcade (architecture)|arcade]] that formerly led into the south chapel.<ref name=vch/>

The remnant was declared "[[Redundant church|redundant]]" in 2002,<ref>{{Citation |title=Schemes |url=http://www.churchofengland.org/media/35537/southwark.doc |access-date=30 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316083719/http://www.churchofengland.org/media/35537/southwark.doc |url-status=dead |publisher=[[Diocese of Southwark]] |format=DOC |archive-date=16 March 2012}}</ref> and [[vesting|vested]] in the Churches Conservation Trust.<ref>{{Citation|year = 2011|title = Diocese of Southwark: All Schemes|series = Church Commissioners/Statistics|publisher = [[Church of England]]|page = 8|url = http://www.churchofengland.org/media/811123/southwark%20-%20all%20schemes.pdf|access-date = 30 March 2011|archive-date = 16 March 2012|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120316083739/http://www.churchofengland.org/media/811123/southwark%20-%20all%20schemes.pdf|url-status = dead}}</ref> It has been designated by [[English Heritage]] as a Grade&nbsp;II* [[listed building]],<ref name=hg/> and is under the care of a national charity, the [[Churches Conservation Trust]].<ref name=cct>{{Citation |url = http://www.visitchurches.org.uk/Ourchurches/Completelistofchurches/Lumley-Chapel-St-Dunstans-Cheam-Surrey/|title = Lumley Chapel (St Dunstan's), Cheam, Surrey|access-date = 30 March 2011|publisher = [[Churches Conservation Trust]]}}</ref>
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