1808 – 1878
The large tabletop tomb commemorates James King, the founding member of a family firm of brewers. Although he originally worked as a farmer in Capel, in the 1860s he began trading as a maltster (a person who prepares malt from grain for the purpose of brewing) in Horsham’s Bishopric.
In 1870 he joined his business with an existing Horsham brewery, Satchell’s, and began brewing under the name King and Sons. Following James’s death his wife Mary continued the business and later, under the leadership of her sons, the brewery went into partnership with Horsham’s G.H. Barnes, becoming King and Barnes.
The King and Barnes brewery operated in Bishopric until 2000 when it was taken over by Hall and Woodhouse. The brewery site is now housing.
Bill King, the fifth-generation brewer in the family, then started a micro-brewery in Horsham, and now runs the Firebird brewery in Rudgwick.
King & Barnes Ltd Brewers