All Saints Churchyard in Newmarket, Suffolk

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Newmarket, Forest Heath District, Suffolk CB8 8ES England

Coordinates: 52.24309, 0.40717
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The Church of ALL SAINTS 1877-1977.
The land on which All Saints is built was first used for worship from around the 13th century, but to understand the origin of All Saints, the origins of Newmarket and St Mary's must be understood.
At the end of 12th century Newmarket began its life as a market town after a "shrewd Lord of the Manor" saw the area was ideally placed on the main road from London to Norwich being more or less equally distant from Cambridge, Ely, Bury St Edmunds, and Mildenhall.
Newmarket was originally carved out of the parishes of Exning and Woodditton.
Around 1280 The Lords of the Manor on the Exning side, the Argenteins, built their chapel of ease, on the St Mary's site. The monks of Thetford were the parish priests of St Mary's. "Somewhat" later The Lords of the Manor of Ditton Valens built a similar chapel of ease, on the All Saints site.
Early in the 14th century Maria de Sancto Paulo, Countess of Pembroke, obtained a papal license for one of the monks of Thetford to say mass at her chapel of ease on the site of All Saints, then called St Simon and St Jude.
In 1650 A Parliamentary Commission recommended its (All Saints) fusion with St Mary's in Suffolk, a recommendation which fortunately was not carried out.
In 1834 All Saints began to exist as a parish in its own right from the appointment of Reverend G. Otter as perpetual curate and 1868 Legally recognised as a parish when the Reverend Romaine Govette became the first Vicar.