STAFFORDSHIRE. Once a Year on the Drakelow Waters

8Q BURTON -UPON-T~EN'J\ STAFFORDSHIRE. once a year on the Drakelow waters. The Burton-on-Trent in number, and though not mitred sometimes sat in Parlia. Cricket Club has a practising ground in Burton meadow ; ment; after it» surrender the abbey church was made col and the Anglesey Cricket Club in the Hay. legiate, with a dean and four Canons, and endowed with the The Infirmary and Dispensary stands between Duke street greater part of the property belonging to the previous and New street, on a site held partly on lease for 99 years, foundation, but this establishment was suppressed in from the sth April, x868, from the Marquess of Anglesey, January, 1549, and granted with all its possessions to Sir and is a structure of brick, from designs by Mr. Holmes, William Paget, ancestor of the present Marquess of Angle. erected in 1869, at an estimated cost of £2,300; it is sey: in the abbey grounds are several stone coffins, and divided into (our wards, and is available for so patients; lying within one of the arches is an alabaster effigy in chain the dispensary is supported by voluntary subscriptions. and plate armour: there are now but few other remains in The charities bequeathed to the poor at various times are Burton coeval with the abbey, and of these, the homestead at Seyney (commonly called Sinai) Park is the only huilding very• numerous and valuable, and are now invested in land and stocks, producing in the aggregate £3,346 yearly ; by which has been fairly preserved : this is a half-timbered a scheme of the Charity Commissioners, dated January structure on stone foundations, forming three sides of a 22nd, 1884, the care and distribution of these funds are quadrangle, and surrounded by a moat, and has some rooms vested in a body of 17 trustees. For convenience the floored and wainscotted with oak: it was probably built charities are arranged into three divisions : viz. Almshouses, during the latter part of the 15th century, and was used by Poors' and Town branches. The Almshouses' branch com the abbots as a summer residence. prises-Ellen Parker's Almshouses, Dame Elizabeth Paulet's The Marquess of Anglesey is lord of the manor (which is Almshouses, Elizabeth Wilkins's Charity, Isaac Hawkins's governed by a high bailiff) and principal landowner. The Charity, the Johnson Almshouses, and the York Street, or manor possesses its own coroner. The ancient halberds of Matthew Muckleston's Almshouses, the total yearly value the six manor constables, called "Deciners" or "Dozeners," being £988 4s. 7d. with the addition of a subscription of are still preserved, as well as two other curious staves of £120 from the Town branch, devoted to the Wellington office. Street Almshouses, for 20 poor women, and the York Street Almshouses for 4 poor men, who receive 7s. per week and The area of the Staffordshire portion of the parish is 6,580 medical attendance, any remaining residue being devoted to acres; rateable value of Burton-on-Trent, £n9,826; and pensions to poor men. The Poor's branch comprises of Burton Extra, £65,598 ; the population in 1891 was-of Almond's, Dame Watson's, William Hawkins's, Richard the parish of Burton-on-Trent, 8,245; and of Eurton Extra, Steele's and Robinson's Charities, the total yearly value 14,244· being £137 48· sd, which is devoted to the support of the The population of the muni<:ipal wards in 1891 was : soup kitchen, bread, fuel, and a subscription of £I 1os. Burton Extra, 14,773; Burton-on-Trent, 8,245; Horninglow, each to the ministers of Horninglow, Stretton, and Bran 14,747 and Stapenhill and Winshill, 8,282 ; total, 46,047· stone, for distribution. The Town branch comprises the The population of the ecclesiastical parishes in r8g1 Town Lands, New Closes and Pavement House Charities, was :-St. Mod wen, 2,169 ; Christ Church, 14,624 ; Holy the total yearly value being £2,220 liS. 2d. apportioned as Trinity, 3,191; St. Paul, 8,725. follows, viz. :-Annual subscriptions to the Burton Endowed Schools for scholarships, any sum not exceeding [,xso and Horninglow is a considerable hamlet in the civil parish £250 for general expenses; to the Burton Infirmary, any and borough of Burton-upon-Trent, and is seated upon an sum not exceeding £150; Birmingham Eye Hospital, [,6 6s.; eminence overlooking the vale of the Trent. A district taken Devonshire Hospital, £10 108. ; Burton Institute, £8o ; from the parish of Holy Trinity, Burton, by Order in Southport Convalescent Home, [,3o 12s. ; to elementary Council, dated 24th October, 1866, and gazetted May 2rst, schools for educational purposes, £xso; to the Almshouse 1867, now forms a separate ecclesiastical parish. The branch [, 120 ; for university exhibitions for boys and girls, church of St. John the Evangelist, consecrated in 1866, is £150; for exhibitions for technical education, any sum not an edifice of brick and Ancaster stone, with Bath stone exceeding [, 150 ; and for the maintenance of recreation dressings, in the Geometrical Decorated style, from designs grounds, £100 ; and any residue may be devoted to town by Mr. Edwin Holmes, of Birmingham, and was erected at improvements and embellishments. a total cost of £5,936 ; it consists of chancel, nave, aisles, Fronting the cemetery is a tract of land held on lease from and a western tower w1th spire 120 feet in height, containing the Marquess of Anglesey for 45 years from April 5, 1865, a clock and 6 bells: the east and west windows are stained: and laid out with ornamental walks and gardens as a place there are 458 sittings, of which 296 are free. The register of public recreation. dates from the year 1866. The living is a vicarage, endowed In 1884 the Corporation acquired the lease of 25 acres of with £3,000 by John Hopkins esq. gross yearly value £302, land, comprising the Oxhay, St. Modwen's Garden and the net £297, in the gift of Mrs. John Auden, and held since Fleet, lying within the two arms of the river Trent (which 1877 by the Rev. Sydney Orpwood Miller li!.A. of Magdalene College, Cambridge. There is a Wesleyan chapel here. The is crossed by a small iron bridge) ; and also a piece nf 20 acres, known as "The Outwoods," at the west side of the Grand Trunk canal passes through, and has wharfs and town, and these sites have now been laid out as pleasure and warehouses for carriers. The Marquess of Anglesey is lord recreation grounds. of the manor and principal landowner. The soil, which in The country around Burton is exceedingly picturesque: the hilly part is gravel, contains large quantities of rich east of the Trent the hills slope towards the Ashby Wolds, mar!, variegated with white veins, and produces excellent and from the eminences of Scalpcliff, Winshill, and Bladon crops of wheat and beans; there is also a good portion of may be seen, stretching forth in all their beauty, the valleys pasture and meadow land. The area is 2,167 acres; rate of the Trent and Dove. Looking westward across the river, able value, [, so,649 ; the population of the parish in I89t from the same heights, the Atherstone Outwoods and was 15,376, including 427 officers and inmates in Burton Needwood Forest diversify the view, and in the distance the on-Trent Union Workhouse; the population of St. John the mouldering keep of Tutbury Castle is dimly visible. Evangelist ecclesiastical parish in 1 8g1 was 8,6oo. The Benedictine Abbey of SS. Mary and Mod wen, founded Parish Clerk, Henry Bullock. in the year 1002 by Wulfric Spot, Earl of Mercia, occupied Stapenhtll is a parish, including the townships of the site of the present church of St . .Mod wen: it was in iLs ~TAPENHILL, STANTON and NEWHALL and CAULDWELL, in most flourishing condition in the 13th and 14th centuries, the ~outhern division of the county of Derby, hundred of and in 1260 had 30 monks : the land occupied by the abbey Repton and GrP.sley, petty sessional division of Swadlincote, was 14 acres in extent, inclosed by a stone wall with three union and county court district of Burton-upon-Trent, gateways, of .which the west gate still remains; but the rural deanery of Repton, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese present inclosing wall is a modern work raised on the ancient of Southwell, and is now included in the municipal borough foundations. According to Shaw (Hist. Staff.) the abbey of Burton-on-Trent. Stapenhill village is pleasantly seated church was 228 by about 52 feet, with cloisters on the south on the south-east bank of the river Trent, 1 mile east-by side roo feet square, a common room adjoining, 196 by 30 south from Burton-npon-Trent railway station, and is con feet, and on the east side a dormitory, 100 by 10 feet, with nected with Hurton by the bridge built in 1863-64 by the other chambers: few vestiges of the abbey now remain, but Midland Railway Company. The church of St. Peter, re the entrance gate and porter's lodge still exist, and in the built in 188o-81 from designs by Messrs. Evans and Jolly, abbey gardens, in the wall dividing the abbey and priory of Nottingham and Burton-on-Trent, at a cost of about grounds, is a. beautiful doorway of the Decorated period, £I 3,500, is a plain edifice of Derbyshire stone with Ancaster discovered and laid open by the late Mr. Thornewill, which Htone dressings, in the Late Decorated and Perpendicular is ornamented with elaborate and unique can'ing: there are styles, consisting of chancel, transepts, clerestoried nave, also two semi-circular arches of apparently Early English aisles, south porch and an embattled tower on the south date, and three other arches in the wall fronting the priory west, IO"~ feet in height, with angle pinnacles 21 feet high grounds, one of which is Transition and the other Gothic, and containing one bell : in the porch is an alabaster tomb but these are evidently re-C()nstructed portions removed stone with incised effigies, and a Latin inscription to Williaru from some differ«;Jnt site: the abbots of Burton, from Wul DethJCk esq.

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