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126 HEDON. HULL. [KELLY'S of St. Augustine is a magnificent cruciform structure £7s.ooo, under the superintendence of C. J. Bentley esq. of in the Early English and later styles, with some remains Old Broad street, London E c : the one-mile course is dead of the Transition Nor man period, the earliest portions level all the way, except a slight elevation at the starting dating from II9I, and consists of choir, transepts, cleres point ; there is also a 2-mile circular course and three stands, toried nave of five bays, aisles, north porl:h, vestry and holding s,ooo persons, and a ring with accommodation for a central tower containing a clock with chimes and 6 bells: 2,500 people: the main entrance is from the Hedon the choir and transepts, with the exception of the Perpendi road, close to the grand stand, but the greater number of cular east window, are Early English, and have a triforium, visitors reach the course from a siding with station (only serving as a clerestory, which is approached by staircases in open at race meetings) on the North Eastern railway. Race the angles, and was originally continued round the east end, meetings have not been held here since )fay, r89o, and the but both here and in the south transept it has been inter property is now (1893) in the hands of mortgagees. There rupted by the insertion of windows : the south side of the is a brick and tile manufactory, carried on by Mr. George choir retains sedilia and two walled-up arches, formerly Handley. In the garden of Ilolyrood House here, now the opening into a chantry; on the north side are three low residence of James Watson esq. is an ancient cross, removed arches ; the transepts have tall gabled buttresses at the iu 18r8 by the late Francis Constable esq. from Kilnsea to angles, and the doorway in the north transept exhibits a Burton Constable : it is said that this cross was originally profusion of the dog-tooth ornament; the nave, built on the erected at Ravenspnrn, or Ravenser, near Kilnsea, to com lines of an Early English nave, of which traces remain, is memorate the landing at that place of the Duke of Lancaster, Decorated, and has windows with geometrical and reticu afterwards Henry IV. in 1399, and on it are sculptured lated tracery, and in the clerestory small windows of two emblems of Our Saviour and the Blessed Virgin. The Mayor lights; the west end is supported by massive buttresses, and Corporation claim to be lords of the manor by virtue of and has a fine doorway, and there are others in the aisles; the payment of a penalty of£30. The principal landowners the tower, a graceful work of the Perpendicular period, is are the Corporatwn, Christopher Sykes esq. l.P., D.L. of 129 feet in height, with two tiers of large traceried windows, Brantmgham Thorpe; William HcnryHarrison-Broadleyesq. a light pierced parapet and eight crocketed pinnacles; on n.L., J.P. of Welton Brough; William Lambert White esq. the floor of the choir is a mutilated effigy of the 14th and John Thornhill esq. The acreage of the parish is 312; century removed from the churchyard, and in the south rateable value, £3,327; the population in r881 was 966 and transept a slab of da-rk stone· or marble carved with a in I 89 I was 979· floriated cross ; there are other stones with matrices of Parish Clerk, Frederick John Batty. brasses and an ancient font of carved stone: the east PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & .Annuity & Insurance window is stained, and there are memorial windows to Otfice.-Thomas Boyes Johnson, postmaster. Letters William Watson and .Mary, his wife, and to the Colley through Hull arrive at 7.50 a. m. & 2.-40 p.m.; dispatched family, besides two stained windows given by the late at u.25 a.m. & 6.30 p.m. ; sunday ,letters arrive at 9 a. m.; W. T. White esq. : the brass lectern was the gift of dispatched at s.4op.m. The money order otfice &savings William Rawson esq. of Hull, and the church plate includes bank is open from 9 a. m. to 8 p.m a silver flagon, given by Mr. and .Mrs. A.lbert I veson, of the WALL LETTER Box, Railway station, cleared at 6 p.m. &; Hollie9, Gainsboro', in 1892; the south transept was new has no sunday collection roofed and restored in r868 under the dire.ction of G. E. CocNTY MAGISTRATES FOR THE MIDDLE HOLDERNESS PEITY Street esq. R.A. ; the north transept and nave in 1871, the SESSIONAL DIVISION. choir in 1876, and the tower more recently; the total cost, Sir Frederick A.ugustus Talbot Clifford-Constable hart. defrayed by subscription, being £7,000 : the extreme length Burton Constable (chairman) of the churl:h is r64 feet 6 inches, and across the transepts Owcn Daly B.A., M.D. 23 A.lbion street, Hull 102 feet : there are soo sittings. The register dates from Arthur Knocker Dibb esq. Kirkella, Hull the year 1549. The living is a vicarage, average tithe Waiter C. Jalland esq. Holderness house, Hull rent-charge £48, net yearly value £169, with an acre of Edmund P. Maxsted esq. The Cliff, Hessle glebe and residence, in the gift of the Archbishop of York, John Edward Wade esq. Rrantingham Thorpe, Park, Hull and held since 1883 by the Rev. John Horsfall Richardson William Lambert White esq. Lambert house, Hedon M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. There is a Catholic Clerk to the Magistrates, Godfrey Richd. Park, Market hi chapel, dedicated to SS . .Mary and Joseph, erected in 1804; Petty Sessions are held in the Town hall once a month, last a Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1801 ; a Wcsleyan thursday, at 12.30 p.m chapel, erected in r8r8, and rebuilt in 1875, and a Baptist The following places are included in the Middle Holderness chapel. petty sessional division :-Aldbrough (including Bewick, The Town Hall, in St. Augustine gate, was erected by Carlton, Fosham & Tansterne), Benningholme, Bilton, }Ienry Guy esq. one of the parliamentary representatives of Hurton Pidsea, Coniston, Cowdens Ambo, Danthorpe, the borough for many years: it contains full-length portraits East Newton, Ellerby, Elstronwick, Fitling, Flinton, Gan· of Henry Guy esq. and William Pulteney esq. afterwards stead, Garton & Grimston, Hedon, Humbleton, Lelley, created (r4th July, 1742) Baron Hedon and Earl of Bath; .Marfleet, Marton, Owstwick, Preston, Roos, South Skirk· there is also a portrait of the late James lveson esq. town laugh, Sproatley, Sutton (part of), Stoneferry, Swine, clerk, presented to the Corporation by the late John Collins Thirtleby, Tunstall, West Newton, Wyton esq. of Danthorpe Hall, and one of the late William Kirk CORPORATION. esq. five times mayor of Hedon. The Corporation possess a !892 -93- silver gilt mace, 23 inches in length, of remarkable form, and Mayor, Councillor Robert;A.lan Park" esq. probably the earliest civic mace now remaining in England, Aldermen. dating from the time of Henry VI. ; the head bears Retire. Retire. three lions rampant between corded bands rising from James Watson, 1894 Godfrey Rchd. Park, 1898 a coronet, and is encircled by a cresting of roses and William Beal, 1896 I branches, above which four crocketed segments, meeting in Councillors. the centre, form a crown; on the flat surface of the head Retire. Retire. are the royal arms-France and England quarterly-between Thomas B. Johnson, 1893 James Soutter, 1894 the initials " b. b." and crowned; the shaft ha.s longitu William .Marshall, 1893 Wm. Lambert ,White, 1895 dinal cabled headings, and iron grip of six flanges. There is Robert Alan Park, 1893 John Heron, jun. r895 also a silver mace, r foot 6 inches long, of the time of Queen Arthur Fewson, 1894 I George Hoyles, r895 Elizabeth, with three fleurs-de-lis round the head, and on the John Gibson, r894 top the royal arms, between the initials ''E. R." ; the grip is OFFICERS OF THE CORPORATION & URBAN SANITARY srmilar to the preceding. AUTHORITY. In the town are three dwelling-houses or hospitals for Town Clerk & Clerk to the Urban Sanitary Authority, six poor widows, and eight houses belonging to the A.rthur Percival Iveson Corporation, occupied by poor burgesses. A. sum of £3 Treasurer, James Stewa.rt Soutter is yearly paid to the vicar by the trustees of the late Medical Officer of Health, Henry Robinson M.B., c.M. Mrs. Watson, of Stoneferry, due on the 3rd day of August; Beverley road, Hull £r of this money is r~>iJ towards the education. of some Inspector of Nuisances, Robert Leak, George street poor child in the pari:S11; £I 6s. for bread to be distri Collector of Rates, Charles Lawrence Robinson, Hull New rd buted every Sunday to the poor of the parish, and the Town Crier, R. Whitaker remainder to the vicar, for preaching a sermon on the 3rd Sergeant-at-Mace, Howard Markham day of August in St. Augustine's church, and £2 12s. is PuBLIC EsTAELISHMl'NTs :- distributed in bread every Sunday, from Cockerill's charity. County Court, His Honor Francis A. Bed well M.A. judge; The Holderness Agricultural Society, established in 1796, Arthur .Mills, registrar & high bailiff; office at Fletcher hold their meetings in the town half-yearly and have cattle gate. The court is held once in two months, at the Town shows twice a year, in March and September. A. racecourse, hall, St. Augustine gate. The district comprises the situated between the Hed.on m11in road and the North following places, viz.