page_title: Francis Hill Sewell
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Francis Hill Sewell / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: The Anglican Church in Lindfield, Haywards Heath.
context_page_description: The Reverend Francis Hill Sewell was a clergyman and philanthropist who was largely responsible for the rebuilding and restoration of All Saints Church, Lindfield in the parish of Lindfield, Sussex, today a Grade II* Listed Building. In 1848 Sewell graduated from Caius College Cambridge and became the Curate of All Saints, where he contributed more than £650 of his own money towards the estimated £2,000 total needed, engaging the architect John Henry Taylor to oversee the restoration of the building to its 14th Century splendour. Sewell was also responsible for the foundation of the National School in Lindfield in 1851.
context_section_description: Sewell was intended for the army but instead he pursued a career in the church, owing to his "gentleness of disposition". 
  After graduating from Cambridge in 1839 he was ordained into the clergy and was appointed curate of All Saints Church, Lindfield, where he remained the incumbent until his death in 1862.  Lindfield at this time was "utterly neglected" and "no part of England was more desolate". 
  Shortly after arriving in Lindfield, Sewell's elder brother died, and Francis Sewell came into "possession of a moderate fortune", an income of "many tens of thousands of pounds" as well as an estate bordering Ashdown Forest comprising several farms of around 600 acres, as well as a substantial house at Twyford.
caption: All Saints Church viewed from Lindfield High St
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