Strict Baptist chapels within a short distance in the village centre; Providence Chapel is now closed. Cranbrook Congregational Church was built in Neo-Gothic style in 1857, replacing an earlier chapel. It remains Congregational, having stayed outside the United Reformed Church denomination. The Catholic St Theodore's Church opened in 1958. Sport In 1652, a court case brought at Cranbrook by church authorities against John Rabson and others refers to "a certain unlawful game called cricket", one of the sport's earliest references. The court, however, ruled that the game was not unlawful. Kent County Cricket Club played two first-class cricket matches on School Field, Cranbrook in the 1850s and two on Swifts Park, an estate just north-east of the town, in the 1860s. Cranbrook Juniors Football Club (CJFC) play in the Crowborough & District Junior Football League. Home matches are played on the Rammell Field, Cranbrook on Saturday mornings. Cranbrook Rugby Club (CRFC) play their home matches on the various rugby pitches situated around the town, including the Jaeger and Scott fields. The clubhouse is based at the Cranbrook Rugby Club, on Angley Road. Age groups range from Under 7s to the senior adult teams. The Weald Sports Centre has indoor and outdoor facilities, including tennis courts, an indoor sports hall, a swimming pool and a dance studio. Cranbrook joggers club runs routes around Angley Woods and Bedgebury Forest. There was an open-air swimming pool on the Frythe Estate, which closed when the Weald Sports Centre opened in 2000. Notable people Rev William Robert Fountains Addison VC, (1883–1962), recipient of the Victoria Cross in the First World War Robert Triall, Presbyterian minister and prisoner on the Bass Rock Boyd Alexander, (1873–1910), British Army officer, explorer and ornithologist Giles Cooper, (1968–), entertainment producer & promoter. Best known as chairman of the annual Royal Variety Performance Frederick Daniel Hardy, (1827–1911), genre painter and member of the Cranbrook Colony Harry Hill, (1964–), comedian, born Matthew Hall, educated in Cranbrook William Huntington S.S., (1745–1813), preacher and eccentric Chris Langham, (1949–), actor and writer Kevin Lygo, (1957–), Head of ITV Piers Sellers, (1955–2016), first British-born astronaut Tim Smit, (1954–), founder of the Eden Project Robert Tooth, (1821–1893), prominent Sydney businessman and brewer Arthur Tooth, (1839–1931), Church of England priest imprisoned under the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874 Thomas Webster, (1800–1886), genre painter Peter West, (1920–2003), TV presenter and sports commentator, born, brought up and educated in Cranbrook