DIRECTORY.] , LITTLE. LEIGHS. 183 Spenc& John,. farmer, Lapwater hall Thompson John, ba~ } . V'u:tcnU Pottery Co.L;m. (George Mil18, SUlTidge Benjamin,. shopkeeper Thorp William, builder managerat 'Works), potters 8urridge David, 'COwkeeper. Tomlin Daniel & Thomas, coal .t.. salt Watson Charles Edward, grocer Surridge Henry Ellis, Peter Boat J. merchants YOWlg George, post office , Thompsoo Emma (Mrs.), shopkeeper Turnidge Thomas, fishmonger , GREAT or MUCH LEIGHS, mentioned in Domes.- bell-ropes{sold. by'order of the Poor La1t 'Commissioners;; day ~t1.rvey, lies on the River 'fer and is a parish of scattered also an acre of land, afterwards exchanged for 2 acres, known houses-in the Eastern and Western divillions of t.he county, aa" Cole Hill Mead," to find a load of pea-straw to litter the union; -Chelmsford and Witham hundreds, Brain- chul'ch in winter. There are two charities: a benefaction of tree county court district, rural deanery of Chelmsford, £25 annuallY,left by Mrs. Fortune Watts, of Great Leighs, archdeaconry of Essex and diocese of St. Albans, t mile east in 1698 foi'the poor and another of about £6, left by MrS. of the road from Chelmsford to Sudbury, 7 miles north east Beadle, of Great Leighs, in t822, for seven poor persons who from Chelmsford, 5 south west from Braintree, 7 west from mostly attend public worship: it has been recently decided Witham and 36 from London. The church of St. Mary the (I8gr) to build two ~lmshou~in the parish. The Rev. G. Virgin is an ancient edifice, consistingof chancel, nave, south H. Bowman and Joseph Tritton esq. are lords of the manot-: porch and a round tower of fiint and stone, surmounted by the latter is the principal landowner : John Corsbie Browh an octagonal shingled spire, containing 5 bells and a clock; Corsbie ~sq. of Beyton, Suffolk, is also' a 'Considerable- land­ the nave-; the "Oldest part of 'the- church, is Norman 'With owner. The soil is mixed; ~ubsoil, clay and gravel. The Perpendicular Windows and there are three Norman win- ~hief crops are wheat, barley, beang &c. The area is 3,055 dows with wide splay; the inner doorway of the porch is acres; gross rateable 'talue, £4.831; and the "pOpulation in Nomian and there is a fine Norman doorway at the west end '1881 was 753. of the tower, with zig-zag mouldings; the chancel is Deco- , -ClfATLEY is ft hamlet of Great Leighs, on the high road to rated: in the head of the east window, instainedglass,is a 14th Colchester, extending towards Braintree~ f2; miles north'­ century shield of" France ancient :" on north of chancel is west. . an Easter sepulchre and on the south side are four rich Parish Cle'rk, WiHiam Newman. f sedilia: in the chancel is the mutilated brass effigy of a priest POST OFFICE, Chatley.-Joseph Collard, receiver. Lettel"B c. 1370 and the brass of Ralph Shelley, rector of this church arrive through Chelmsford at 9.40 a.m.; dispatched at '1414, also imperfect: in 1867 the church was restored at 11. 5.25 p.m. ' The nearest money order & telegraplt- ~ffices cost of £720. The Tegister dates from the yel"l\- 1578. The are at Great WaItham • living is a rectory, yearly value £878, with residence, in the SCHOOLS ;-• gift of Lincoln College, Oxford and held by the Rev. William Bo«rd School (mixed), under the Great Leighs School Board, Kay D.D. formerly fellow of that college. The rectory house, built in :r845 for 120 children, with an attendance' of , rebuilt in 1869, is a large white building, with stone dress- 85:J the buildings were originally erected for III British ings, standing in its own grounds and is pleasantly situated, school, at a eost of about- £350, but are now leased to A School Board for the united district of -Great and Little the School Board ~ George Rhodes, master: & Mrs. Leighs,'Composed of five members, was formed here in March, Rhodes, mistress ,1875. The Baptist chapel was erected at tile 501e expense of National (mixed), Miss BaileY, mistress, fol" about 90 Joseph Tritton esq. of Norwood, Surrey. A hotlse was given children, with an average attendance of 66 & supported by by an unknown donor, at a period not recorded, to bur .'Voluntary Bubscriptions, government grant & schoolfees • Great Leighs. " Chatley.· Neville William, shoe maker Kay Rev. William D.D. Rectory Brown Miss, hall . Newman Henry, beer retailer Tritton Joseph, Lions hall COMMERCIAL.' Revell Thomas, manure agent Browq William, jun. farmer, Old farm Archer Charles, St. Ann's Castle Smith Henry, coal dealer Gowers Samuel, gardener to Joseph Arnold Richard,farmer,Goodman'sfrm I Smith Samuel, general dealer Tritton esq. . Brown John (exors. of), farmer & land- Smith Wm. shoe maker &: beer retailer Holland Thomas, grocer owner, Moulsham hall', Stokes Peter, farmer Quilter Thomas, farmer, Whitehouse Conard Joseph, shopkeeper,& post office 1Taylor Henry. wheelwright Riley Alfred, farmer, Allsteads CousiJ;ls George, farmer, Gate house Taylor WiHiam, wheelwright Smith John, farmer, BishopshalI . GoodayThos.farmer&maltster,Fulborne Whitney George, farmer Smith Wqliam, far\ner Hawkes George, carpenter , Willis Waiter, blacksmith Stockes Samuel, blacksmith \ Itolland George, builder &. carpenter Worrin Wm. Nathan, implement a~enl Worrin Charles, miller Joslip~ Samuel, farmer, Poors land. Wright Sarah (Mrs.), butcher is a pleasant parish in the octangular fon1l, placed on clustered shafting, but no brasses; Western di\'\sion !Of the county~ Chelmsford union and there are a few mural tablets; a few OpeB benches of r41h hundred, Braintree county court district, rural i deanery century. work are still left, as also some panels. of Tudor of Chelmsford, archdea.conry ~ Essex and diocese of St. linen pa.ttern; at about 8i~ feet from the east end of the Albans, close to the Chelmsford and Sudbury road and on south wall is a fine monumental memo~i:d in good presel'l­ the , 7 miles north-east from Chelmsford and 5 vation,. consisting !Of an arch,enclosing a recumbent effigy south-west from Braintree. I The church of St. John within a niche, Bix fee~ six inches long, by two feet wide, the Evangelist, situated on rising ground, ahout half a mile built into the wall: the tomb is decorated IIIld appears to to the west of the high road from Braintl1ee to Chelmsford, date from about the middle of Edward Ill.'s reign, .A.D. is in the Early Norman style, possibly about 1085 and 13.50: the head of the niche is formed by a fine lC8nopiell which, judging by later insertions" lVas repaired about the ogee arch, 6 feet high, exquisitely carved into a cinquefoil, years 1220 and 1350 and again at the- eommencement each foil being double cusped; an elaborate finial surmounts of the present century; the building is a plain 'oblong, the arch and lofty pinnacle:l, .richly carved, rise at the about 60 feet long by I,7 feet broad, all under one extremities, the crocketing consists. of leaves and acomJI roof; there is a wooden tower, with shingled spire contain· and the sparulrils betweeB the cusps are delicately worked ing 'I bell, at the west end and .a south porch; the walls into heads and foliage,the material is clunch,stillsoft and IlQW are of flint and stone ~nd are verv thick;. the ca5tern end through the lapse of time toned down to a heautiful cream was probably in the first instaD(:e pierced by It round colour~ which gives all the details. of the workmanship the headed triplet; but it has now a modem casement and. its appearance of being cut out of thefinest Caen stone; Within upper portion, at a height of about 1:1 feetfrom the ground, 'this canopied niche lies the full-length recumbent has been destroyed, with possibly the ~riginal chancel rrof; figure of It priest. life-size<4 appropriately vested, a thin, modern wall supports the existing window, but there the head resting on a cushion placed lozenge-wise,' are portion! of the< old wall which project botn ways, with the face upwards and supported by ..IIOme figures now the outside being of such thickness as to require roofing; undistinguishable and the-figure, together with itsaccessories~ there is no chancel arch, but the wood..work of the roof are carved out of a solid block of oo~, the figure generally .and a beam 'Of 'too old 'Food-loft in the flOOi' sufficiently and especially the folds of the draper}"~ being exceedingly. indicate the distinctien I in tha north,. wall is..a: 1mlall well executed ~ the hands are crossed o.ver the- breast and Decorated window of two lights,with a quatrefoilabove, while joined at the palms, the fingers pointing toward "the face t; towa:rd.s th~ west in both walls are the original small round- the feet aro point~ but without any mark of shoes and headed Norman windows, with the glass close to the OUUlr rest upon & round cushion, which is supported.. by two wall and the- inside .splay Vel',! deeply formed:.. iwo. marked figures;. the whole is for the most part in excellent preser4 characteristics of their early date; in the. south wall is a vation and although the history of this monument is priest's doorway, neaT to which is a la.ncet window, ~layed entirely unknown, it possesses a special archleological value internally at different angles a.nd shortened bJ the.lower .a8 being one Df -the J/ery few 'Specimens of the wooden part b6ing made -into Jo.6 -square compart.ment ~ ahIo an effigies existinginEngland and the only known eDlllple of

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