All Saints, Lindfield (1919-1930)
After a period of recouperation, possibly at Sidmouth, Devon, Dr. Pringuer was appointed organist in the small parish church of All Saints, Lindfield, West Sussex.
On 26 October 1930, Dr. Pringuer was in the vestry preparing for the evening service at All Saints, Lindfield. The Vicar, Rev. Sidney Swann MA had just congratuled Dr. Pringuer on his rendering of the hymn 'When morning gilds the skies' at the morning service, and then while talking to a choirboy, Dr. Pringuer suddenly collapsed. Dr. Christopher William Lumley Dodd MRCS LRCP was summoned, but was only able to pronounce life to be extinct. The body was taken to Dr. Pringuer's home at Priory Cottage, and speaking at the service afterwards, Rev. Swann said that in the death, the parish had sustained a "great loss" although there was "some consolation in the fact that Dr. Pringuer had died as he would have wished to die - in his cassock, ready to go to the organ he loved so well".
Dr. Pringuer's funeral took place on 30 October 1930 leaving the residence at 'The Priory', Lindfield for an impressive choral service at the parish church, and then burial at Horsted Keynes. There was "universal mourning", the event casting "a gloom over the whole hamlet"
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