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given by the Incorporated Society, £2000 by the late . Francis Barrow, Esq., is the Rector of All Saints (Rev. W. Holme. B.D.), £1000 Judge. The County Court office is in Rectory place. by the patrons; and £500 by the late Miss Tate. Mr. AIr. G. H. Woolley is the registrar, and Mr. John S. Rickman, of Birmingham, author of "Gothic Archi­ J ones, high bailiff. tecture," was the architect. In 1871 the church was 'rHE CHAPEL, a gothic stone building, with schools, re.seated, fitted with gas, painted and decorated, at a was built in 1864" at a cost of £1500, raised by sub­ cost of £500, and an organ, by Nicholson, of scription. 'l'hough professedly of no sect, it is Worcester, has been added, at a cost, of £300. The attended chiefly by Unitarians. The Friends' Meet­ living is a rectory, of the annual value of £722, in the ing house, in Dead lane, is an old building now used patronage of the Master and Fellows of Emmanuel by the Plymouth Brethren. The Wesleyan Chapel, Collel,{e, Cambridge. A handsome rectory house, on in road, was erected in 1828, at a cost of the Forest road, was erected in 1851, at a cost of £2000, and will seat about 1200. A neat and com­ £2000 ; of which £800 was given by the late rector, modious Sunday School, with class rooms, has been and £1200 borrowed from the Court of Queen Anne's erected on the other side of the road. There are Bounty. A third district has been formed on the libraries both for the congregation and children. south-eastern si de of the town, where many new streets The New Connexion Chapel, in Wood gate, was built have been formed. Mr. Warner purchased the site, in 1851 at a cost of £1000. The Primitive Metho­ which cost £800, and presented it to the trustees. dist Chapel, in the Rushes, which was erected in The building cost £4700. It is a handsome Early 1856, was rebuilt, with Sunday School at the rear, in English structure, constructed of the local granite with 1870, at an expense of over £1000. The Indepen­ Bath stone dressings. It is cruciform in shape, com­ dent Chapel, in Ashby place, was erected in 1828, at prising chancel, nave, aisles, transepts, vestry, organ a cost of £1600, and enlarged in 1853. New school chamber, bell turret, and one bell. There are seats rooms were built in 1860, at a cost of £480. There for £500 persons, of open pitch pine. The architect is an excellent library. The General Baptist Chapel, was Mr. Blomfield, of London; the builder, Mr. in W oodgate, was first built in 1792; but it has re­ Clipsham, of Norwel1. It was consecrated on the 7th cently been reconstructed, and is one of the handsomest October, 1878. The Bishop of Peterborough is the buildings in the town. It will accommodate over 1000 patron. The living is of the annual value of about persons. The school rooms were erected in 1856, at a £300. cost of £700. '1'he General Baptist Chapel, Baxter LOUGHBOROUGH UNION comprises 25 parishes !tnu gate, was built in 1828 at a cost of .£3300 ; a lecture townships, viz. : Belton, CharIey, Dishley-cum-Thorpe room was added in 1854, at a further outlay of £620. Acre, Garenuon, Hathern, Long Whatton, Lough­ The chapel contains accommodation for 1250 persons. borough, Knightthorpe, Woodthorpe, Sheepshed, The Particular Baptist Chapel, built in 1817, is now , , N ormanton-on-Soar, Prestwold, used by the United Methodist Free Church. The Burton-on-the-Wolds, Cotes, , & , Roman Catholic Chapel, in Ashby road, was built in in ; Rempstone, Stanford-on-Soar, 1833, and with schools, priest's house, and burial Sutton Bonnington, Thorpe-in-the-Glebe, West ground, involved an expense of £5000. The Con­ Leake, Willoughby-on-the-Wolds, and , in vent, ill Park lane, dedicateu to our Lady of Dolors, Notts. The acreage is about 43,840; the population was erected in 1850, and enlarged in 1856. It is the ovel· 26,000. The Workhouse is a brick structure on mother order of the order in , and from it the Derby r03.d, erected in 1838, at a cost of about nuns are sent to Rugby, Cardiff, and Newport, in £7000. There is accommodation for about 375 in­ 'Vales, where there are other convents of the same mates; the average number however is only about 150. order. Here there are upwards of 30 nuns, who Six guardians are elected for Loughborough township, teach gratuitously about 200 children, under Govern­ three for Sheepshed, and one for each of the other ment inspection. They also conduct a middle class places. Chairman, H. Packe, Esq., J. P.; Vice­ boarding school. Chairmen, Messrs. J. Burrows and Henry Bowman; THE SCHOOL BOARD was formed in 1875, and con­ Ex-qtficio Guardians, G. E. Paget, W. B. Paget, E. sists of Messrs. W. A. Cartwright (chairman), B. H. Warner, H. Packe, E. W. C. Middleton, and C. Baldwin (vice-chairman), A. Paget, J. Hunt, J. Till, L. Dashwood, Esqrs.; Clerk and Supt. Registrar, and Rev. M. Garellia. Mr. John J arratt is clerk, Mr. John Jarratt; Relieving O./ficers, John Riley, anu the meetings are held on the first Tuesday in the Cherry Tree place, Loughboro', and John Tunnicliffe, month at the Town offices. School Attendance Office?·, East Leake; J£edical Officers, Messrs. W. G. Palmer, Sergt. Wm. Parsons. Loughborough, J. Wood, Sheepshed, S. Chapman, The BURTON CHARITY helps to maintain six Costock, and J. ·W. Brown, Wymeswold; Registration schools, of which the first in importance is the Boys' Ojfic,ers, Mr. S. Lee, Holland st, and Mr. Rt. Coates, Grammar School, on the Leicester road, a handsome East Leake; Sanitary Inspector, Mr. J. Martin, building of brick and stone, in the Elizabethan style. \ CoMen st; School Attendance Officer, Sergt. Jas. There are about 40 boarders in the school, and 26 Parrott, 37 Baxter gt. The Guardians meet every more at the Burton house. The charge for them is Tuesday morning at 11. Mr. John Ashwood and about 52 guineas a year. There are also about 70 day Mrs. Emma Wright are master and matron of the scholars, for whom the terms are £6 a year. Head workhouse, Miss Annie Thompson, schoolmistress. Master, Mr. J. B. Colgrove, M.A., F.R.A.S. ; Second The County Court is held at the Police Court every Master, R. M. Hugh-Jones, l\LA. ; English Master, month, except September. The district comprises all Mr. J. J. W. Knowles ; French and Ge1"man Master, the places in Loughborough union, with the addition Mr. C. Lowenstein, PH.D. ; Schoolhouse Master, :Mr. of the following :-Barrow, Bardon, Beaumanor, Stanton; Drawing and jJfltsic .Waster, Mr. W. H. Breedon, Castle Donnington, Cavendish Bridge, Bowden. The Girls' Grammar School, in Victoria Cotes, Diseworth, Grace Dieu, Hemington, Isley street, was built in 1879 from the plans of Mr. Walton, Kegworth, Langley, Lockington, Mapple­ Stevenson, architect, of . The interior well, Mountsorrel, Quorndon, Seagrave, Sileby, is very conveniently arranged. It includes large Thorpe, 'ronge, Walton-on-the-Wolds, Wilson, schoolroom, four classrooms, and accommodation for Barrow-on-Soar, Woodhouse, and Woodhouse Eaves, 15 boarders. The terms for day pupils is £4 per in Leicestershire, and Kingstoll allq Wysall, :ill annum) anq for boarqers about £44, and there is