• ~~VENOAKS. KEK:r. I [KELLYS . The churcl;t of St. Nicholas is a spacious edifice of Kentish north aisle, south porch and a western turret containing one rag, in the ,Perpendicular st.y~, consisting of chancel of two bell; and the aisle was added in 1878: there are fr~ sittings and a half bays, clerestoried nave of five bays, aisles extending for ~64 persons and appropriated sittings for 197. The nearly to the extreme east end, vestry attached on the north­ register dates from the year 1858. The living is a vicarage, east of the north aisle, south porch with parvise and octagonal tithe rent-charge £2oo, gross yearly value £246, in the stair turret, and an embattled western tower, 99 feet in gift of the Rev. Thomas Samuel Curteis M.A., F.s.A. and • height, with a turret at the north-east angle, and containing held since 1882 by the Rev. John Spencer Bartlett :M.A. of a elock and Jl bells ; the whole structure, including the vestry Durham University. 'l'he population of the district in I88I and porch, is embattled, and the tower affords a charming was 3,180. view over Knole park, and across the sandhills towards KIPPINGTON is an ecclesiastical parish, formed July 13th, Brasted, SUJ1dridge and Westerham. The stained east 1871, out of Sevenoaks: the church o( St. Mary. erected by window, representing eight subjects from Our Lord's William James Thompson esq. J.P. of Kippington and conse· Passion, designed and executed by C. E. Kempe esq. was a crated 7th June, t88o, is a cruciform building of Kentish rag, gift to the church in 1887; the chancel which is separated in the Early English style, from designs by Mr. John from the nave by a low stone wall, has a good modern, open, Marshall Hooker, architect, late of Sevenoaks, and consists hammer-beam roof of oak, the principals springing from bold of apsidal chancel, transepts, clerestoried nave of four bays, wood brackets, some of which bear demi-figures of angels, aisles and a tower at the west end of the south aisle, con­ on the south .side is a memorial window to Christopher taining one bell: the lower stage of the tower forms a Cook, of Ashgtove, and Elizabeth his wife : the oaken pulpit, porch: the aisles are separated from the nave by arcades dated 1628, is panelled ; the upper panels are separated by with circular columns of West wood stone : the pulpit is of pilasters, adorned with scroll work and inclosed f.rches alabaster with marble shafts : the font, executed in statuary much enriched withdentalornament; the brasseaglelectem marble, consists of a quatrefoil shaped bowl, supported on presented by J. M. Clabon esq. is a memorial to William cherubs' heads, and resting on a twisted shaft : the windows Montagu Robert Clabon, who was killed on the railway, 15 are stained : there are 409 sittings, about 70 being free. July, 1876: the organ, placed at the east end of the north The register dates from the year 188o. The living is a aisle, was presented by James Wright esq. and much en­ vicarage, net yearly value about £400, derived from pew larged about t8!Lf, at a cost of over £6oo: the font has an rents and an endowment of £150, with residence, in the gift octagonal basin, with sides panelled in quatrefoils, inclosing of William James Thompson esq. and held since 188o by some shieldS' of arms and 'fudor roses : in the north aisle the Rev. George Edward Tate M.A. of St. John's College, are a number of fine and interesting mural monuments, Cambridge, and prebendary of Wells Cathedral. There is including at the east end a very large rectangular monument an iron church seating 300 persons, in the Granville road. of white marble with fluted pilasters supporting an entab­ in connection with St. Mary's. The population in 1881 was lature and bust by Chantrey to Charles, first and only Earl 66o. Whitworth P.c., o.c.B. n.c.L. ambassador to Russia, and The Catholic church, dedicated to the Holy 'frinity, has sometime Viceroy of lreland,d. 13 May, 1825 i below are arms, sittings for :iOO persons. with supporters and crest: another large and elaborately The Congl't'gationalchurcb, on St John's hill, is a building wrought marble monument displays an oval tablet with in the Gothic style, erected in 1865, at a cost, including the scroll work and drapery, inclosed .by; -an arch on fluted site, of about £4,000, and will seat 450 persons. pilasters, at the foot of which are two figures of weeping St. John's Hall, Hollyhush lane (in connection with St. infants; there is an inscription to John Fermor esq. some­ John's Congregati<1nal church) was built in 1888 for Sunday time M.P. for Malmesbury, d. 29 Dec. 1722, and to Sir Henry school purposes, and for public meetings, and will hold 350 Fermol', hart. his elder brother, d. 2 Jan. 1734, and above, persons. , an achievement· of arms, richly em blazoned in gold and The Wesleyan chapel, a building in the Gothic style, colours: a third monument, also of marble, has thestandmg erected in 1852-3, at u. cost of about £rpo, exclusive of land, figure .of a lady under a· canopy with curtains held aside by has recently ( 1890) ·been renovated and enlarged at a cost of angels, over- which is a lozenge with arms, and below an about £450~ and will seat 400 persons. inscription to Margaret, relict. of Sir WiUiam Boswell, kt. The Particular Baptist chapel, on the Vine, seats 400 people. erected in ~92 bJ Eli~beth Green. ber executrix : there is There are also meeting-rooms for Plymouth and Christian another monument, of considerable interest, to Lady Margery Brethren, the former with 120, and the latter with 140 (Clerke) of Ford in Wrotham, and wife of Thomas Scott esq. sittings. of High Halden, ob. 1618 ; at the top of the monument is an The Local Board offices and stables, Argyle road, erected achievement of arms and on either side are three impaled or in 1872 at a cost of about .£"3,500, are of white gault brick quartered shields, all bearing traces of colour: at the west end with Bath stone dressings : the fire engine station is in of this aisle &re several monuments to the Lam barde family ; Eardley road. these include one of ma.rble, pa.inted and gilt, with arms Sevenoaks Horticultural and Floral Society usuaiiy holds and crest, to William Lambardet founder, in 1588, of Queen an annual show in the month of August. Elizabeth's College or HospitaJ a.t Greenwich, and author Tl;le Sevenoaks and West Kent Gardeners' and Amateur (1576) of the" Perambulation of Kent," ob. 19 August, t6oi; So<>iety holds a chrysanthemum show in November, as well the inscription also .commemorates Sir Multon ~mbarde, kt. as fOTtnightly competitions. , his son and heir ob, 7 August, .1634 and there are memorials The London and County Banking Co. Limited have a to Sir ldulton Lambarde, kt. ob. 1676, and Jane, his wife, branch here in the High street. erected by Carolina Pery, and to others of this family, A stock market is held the thid Wednesday in the , 1808-26: here also is a stained window ~ected to Francis month. James Holcroft, killed in the disastrous fight at Isandlwhana, The County Police Station, in High street, was erected in Zululand, 22 Jan. 1879, and over the north door is anothsr 1864, at a cost of £3,000. given by the children of th~ Sunday school : the south aisle The Constitutional Club, situated at the junction of the retains a piscina at the east end1 and has two monuments of Maidstone and Dartford roads, was er~cted in I81J0, under similar design, in white and grey marble, adorned with the superintendence of Mr. Thomas Pott-er, at a cost of shields of arms, and carvings of weapons of war and standards £s,ooo, raised in shares, and is a structure of red brick, to Field Marshal Jeffery, first baron Amherst, K.B. d. 3 attached to which is a large ball, holding 6oo people, and August, 1797, and to other members of this family, 1781; used for public entertainments and meetings ; and there are there are memorial windows in this aisle to Susan Frances, also reading, billiard, smoking and other rooms. wife of Frederick Tooth esq. d. I July, 1882 ; William Pitt The G Company 1st Volunteer Battalion, Queen's Own (Amherst), first Earl Amherst, d. 13 March, 1857, and Royal West Regiment, have bead quarters in High street. William Pitt, 2nd Earl, d. 26 March, 1886, and another There are several first-class hotels: Pawley's Royal Crown stained window erected a~ Easter, ,1886, in honour of the hotel ~ in London roa.tl ; the Royal. Oak hotel is situated at holy apostles and especially St. Paul : iu ~be tower is a large the top of the town, close to the entrance to Knole park ; monument,. with arms, to tbe Lake. family 1788-1834; the the Hose and Crown hotel is in the High street ; !Jligh's stained west window was inserted in 1887; the nave roof is private hotel is a large and comfortable house, the grounds groined in plaster, those of the aisles are flat and .of plain are attractive and afford a pleasant prospect of the surround­ plaster work: there are Boo sittings. The earliest date of the ing country; the Sennocke Arms hotel faces the South register is 1559. The living, formerly a sinecure rectory Eastern railway station, Tub's hill, and a vicarage, the former valued in the King's .Books at ,Between the old town and St. John's portion of the district £13 os. 8d. the latter at £15 3s. old· is now a rectory and is an open space called "Sevenoaks Vine," which is used by vicarage, yearly value from rent-charge£ I, n6 Igs. 6d. nett thQ public and the Vine club as 11- cricket ground. The £664, with residence and rs acre$ of glebe, in the gift of and Local Board have recently (1890) purchased the cottages held since 1874 by the Rev. Thomas Samuel Curteis :M.A., and ground adjoining the Vine and extending to the of Trinity College, Cambridge, F.S.A. boundary of the Constitutional club, and this land is also to , ST. JoHN's is an ecclesiastical parish, formed September be reserved as an open space. 27th, 1878, from that of Sevenoaks 2 the church, consecrated The Almshouses, founded by Sir William Sennocke in October, 1858, is a building of stone in the Gothic style (Sevenoak) kt. in connection with his school, contain :ao of the 14th century, consisting of chancel, nave of five bays inmates, each of whom receives 6s. p:~r week:. there are •