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I893 by -the> Rev. Andrew O'Brien Brandon M.A. of and there are also various sums received as dividends on Trinity College, Dublin. compensation money for waste lands, invested by ordl!t' The Catholic church, near ·, dedicated of the vestry and the Inclosure Commissioners, and to S . .Francis de Sales, and erected in r881 for a school, amounting in all to about £224 yearly, which sum is but is used temporarily for Divine Worship pending the applied to difierent parochial purposes. erection of a permanent church, and will hold about 6oo , near Bruce Grove station, is an Eliza­ persons; adjoining is a convent of the .Marist order, be than mansion, probably rebuilt in 15 r4 by Sir William established in r888, with an orphanage and a middle Compton, and again in the latter part of the 17th cen­ class boarding and day school; and in St. Ann's road is tury. The original structure is said tu have been erected a convent of the Servite order, established in r87I, with by Earl Waltheof, who married Judith, niece of the .a chapel and school. Conqueror, and it subsequently descended, through the The Presbyterian church of St. John is in the High female line, to Robert Bruce, who, on his contention road; and there are Baptist chapels in the High road and with Baliol for the right of succession to the Scottish 'West Green road, a Congregational church at the High I throne being decided in favour of the latter, retired here, <::ross, Primitive Methodist chapels in Northumberland and after repairing the building named it "Le Bruses." park· and "\\'est green, and a Wesleyan chapel in the There, in rsr6, Henry VIII. visited Sir William Comp­ lligh road, erected in I 867. The Brethren and Christian ton, and met his sister Margaret, Queen of Scots; and Brethren have meeting rooms, and the Society of Friends Queen Elizabeth also appears to have come here on a a meeting house. visit to Henry, Lord Compton: the Comptons held the The Cemetery, consecrated December 30, 1857, and estattl till I63o, and it was next held by the Hares, lords opened January I, rBsB, at a cost of £s,ooo, occupies 5 Coleraine, but in I755 reverted tu the Crown, and was acres, of which two-thirds are consecrated and the re- granted to the Townsend family, and in r827 was pur­ mainder unconsecrated: it contains two chapels of chased by the father of Mr. afterwards Sir Kentish rag, with Bath stone dressings, in the Early kt. who, in conjunction with his sons, established a Gothic style, for the Church of England and Noncon- school here, which afterwards acquired considerable note, 1ormists respectively: the ground is under the control of but was finally closed in r8gr. The existing mansion, a burial board of nine members. which stands in grounds of 20 acl'es, is of brick with The High Cross, which gives its name to the southern stone dressings, and consists of a central block with 'end of the town, is an octagonal structure of brick, semi-octagonal embayed wings, and a large square clock erected about 16oo by Dean Wood, in place of a wooden tower rising in the centre, with external balustraded -cross, then much decayed: the second stage is panelled galleries, and surmounted by an octagonal turret with with arches and quatrefoils; the third stage is sur- cupola; the only remaining portion of the house erected rounded with gabled and crocketed niches, and is sur- by the Comptons is a detached tower of red brick cover­ mounted by a crocketed spire with vane: the ornamental ing a deep but disused well. The whole is now the pro· work is of stucco and was added in rSog, and the eight perty of the Local Board, and was opened in August sides bear each on a shield one letter of the word r8gz as a pnhlic recreation ground. '" Totenham." Seven Sisters' road, formed in r83I-3, The is partly in this parish: par· -at a cost of £4o,ooo, takes its name from seven elm trees ticulars are given under . formerly standing there; these having disappeared, The Park ranges on the banks of the Lee near the .seven new trees were planted near the site February 24, Park railway station, arc used by -.tho volunteers of 1852, by the seven daughters of J. McRae esq. of Middlesex, who shoot here up to 6oo yards, and several

OFFICIAL ESTABLISIDIE~TS, LOCAL IXSTIT"C'TIO:NS &c. Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Offices, Members. with the sub-postmasters. High Cross Ward. _.t346 High roa