 Robert Henry Hurst of Horsham Park was still Lord of Manor, and Sir Charles Raymond Burrell, 6th Baronet of Knepp Castle, then in Shipley, was one of seven chief landowners of the parish.St Andrew's Church in Nuthurst village was enlarged in 1898, during which a Norman window was discovered in the north wall of the chancel.The benefice of the ecclesiastical parish was again in the gift of the Bishop of London, at this time being Mandell Creighton.