Nottinghamshire. [Kelly's

1310 RETFORD. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. [KELLY'S containing 6 bells: arcades of five bays divide the nave from plan, and consists of separate dwellings for the 16 brethren, the aisles: the chancel arch is of fine proportions, springing an audit room, matron's apartments and a chapel for the from clustered shafts, with carved corbels : the pulpit is of use of the inmates, in which prayers are said daily: over the oak, as are the chancel, benches, reading desks and lectern: audit room, in bold relief, are t.he arms of the founder : this the stained east window is a memorial to the Rev. Charles room, together with matron's apartments and a clock tower, D. But.terfield, a former rector, and there are other stained were erected in 1872: Mr. Wilmshurst, of Retford, is the windows: the chancel was lengthened by the rector in 1890, bailiff or steward of the estates; and the Rev. Watkin Horn and a new reredos and ornaments for the altar were pre fray M.A. rector of West Retford, chaplain. Dr. Darrel sented by individual parishioners : there are 400 sittings. also gave to trustees, by the same will, all the lands he him The register dates from the year 1770. The living is a dis self purchased, the income of which should be applied to charged rectory, net yearly value £2sr, derived from 163 the maintenance of some ingenious scholar, whose father's acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Sinclair Frank income, at the time, should not exceed 1,;30 yearly, from land Hood esq. B.A., J.P. Nettleham Hall, Lmcoln, and held land or estate ; the said scholar to be chosen out of Lincoln since 1866 by the Rev. Watkin Homfray M.A. of Exeter Col shire aud Nottinghamshire alternately, and to be educated lege, Oxford. in Exeter College, Oxford : this portion of the estate has Ho!y Trinity Hospital was founded by John Darrel M.D. considerably increased in yearly value ; the present allowance {If West Retford, who, by will dated Nov. uth, 1664, to the scholar is £6o yearly, tenable for four years. The devised all property inherited by him to trustees for the church and poor's land is 27 acres, the rent of which is purpose of founding a hospital or almshouse, to have con divided equally between the poor and the church. tinuance for ever, for the sustenance of I6 poor bachelors or A Cemetery of SA. 2R. 24P. on the Great North road, was widowers, of good character, to be elected from places within formed in I8S4 at a cost of about [1,8oo; it contains one a radius of ten miles from the parish church of West Retford, mortuary chapel; it is under the control of a Burial Board and by the same .will appointed the sub-dean of Lincoln of six members, chosen from East Retford Town Council; Cathedral, and his successors, master and governor thereof ; the cemetery, although locally in this parish, is generally desiring that the said hospital should be incorporated by the known as East Retford Cemelery. name of " The Master and Governor and Brethren of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in West Retford, in the county Edward Evelyn Harcourt-Vernon esq. D.L., J.P. of Gro\·e of Nottingham : " in 168o, owing to a falling off of rents and Hall, is lord of the manor. The principal landowners are insufficiency of income, the number of brethren on the Rev. W. Bridgeman-Simpson, Lieut.-Col. Denison RE., J.P. foundation was reduced to ten, each receiving £10 yearly: Benjamin Huntsman esq. D.L., J.P. of West Retford Hall about the year 1776, during the mastership of Dr. Payling, and of Attercliffe, Yorks, the Holy Trinity Hospital and the value of the estates increased, and by economy in the Rector. The area is 930 acres; rateable value, i,6,297; expenditure, the trust was enabled to raise the number as and the population in r88r was 816. originally to 16 and also to add to their annual allowance ; Parish Clerk, Henry Burrows. of late years, by improved and judicious management of the MooRGATE and SPITAL Hn.L are hamlets of Clarborough, estate, as also by the sales of lands and the purchase of others, forming part of the borough of East Retford. St. Saviour's under the sanction of the Charity Commissioners, the yearly chapel, erected in 1828, in the hamlet of Moorgate, is a revenue of the charity has been considerably increased : in building of white brick, in the Gothic style, consisting of conformity with an order made by the Board of Charity Com chancel, aisles and two octagonal turrets on the west front, missioners in 1863, it was directed that each of the brethren and one bell : it was re-pewed throughout in 1878, and a should receive £3 4s. per lunar month, and the master and new organ placed in the chancel. This chapel, attached to governor £84 yearly: the hospital occupies a healthy position the vicarage of Clarborough, has no endowment, the income near the south-west verge of the parish, and was erected on being exclusively derived from pew rents : there are goo the site of the previous building in 1833 ; it is rectangular in sittings. Official Establishments, Local Institutions &c. Po:>T, M. 0. & T. 0., S. 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