• DIRECTORY .J ESSEX. HORNCHl RCH. 3!5 piscina in the south wall. The charities are of £35 owners are Lord Lucas and Dingwall, and Mr. 'P8l'ly value, arising from a. messuage and lands, Herbert Page. The soil is mixed loam; subsoil, par'i. called "Engli8h," in Elmsted, left in 1509 by John gravel and part clay. The ehief crops are wheat, barley~ Guyon, and from a charity left in 1564 by Thomas oats, turnips and mangold wurtzel. The area is 3,197 Love, of Littler Horkesley. The Great Horkesley Club acres of land and 7 of water; rateable· val~e, £4,045 ;: Room, opened in 1878 and enlarged in r88o and 1887, the population in rgn was 779 in the civil parish and is a. plain structure of brick, formerly a Primitive 754 in the ecclesiastical parish. _\fethodist chapel, a.nd is also used as a parochial Under the provisions of the " Divided Parishes Act. hbrary ; there are about 150 members, who elect a 1!.'82," a part of Bergholt Road has been transferred committee of management annually; the property is from Little Horkesley to Great Horkesley. 'rested in twG trustees. Horkesley Park is the resi Post, M. 0. & T. Office. Joseph "'homas Smith, sub dence of Commander Edward Barrington Purvis Kelso p
LITTLE HORKE'SLEY is a parish, 4 miles north led, Langham, Worruingford, Fordham Dedham, Lexden~ from Colchester, in the North Eastern division of the West Bergholt, Nayland, Mount Bures and Hedley; the county, Lexden hundred, Lexden and Winstree onion charity for this parish now amounts to about £13 yearly,. and petty sessional division, Colchester, Clacton and and is distributed among the poor. Here was formerly Harwich Joint county court district, rural deanery of a priory of Cluniac monks belonging to the monastery De-dham, archdeaconry of Colchester and diocese of of Thetford, said to have been founded in the time C'ht>lmsford. The church of SS. Peter and Paul, erected of King Stephen, circ. I ISO, by Robert Fitz Godebold ln the Isth century, is an edifice of stone in the Perpen- and Beatrix, his wife, and dedicated to SS. Peter and dicnllrr style, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, Paul: the revenues at the Dissolution were £27 7s. ud. l!outh porch and an· embattled western tower containing Henry and Charles Grimwade, of Hadleigh, Suffolk, are 5 bells and a clock: a vestry and organ chamber were lords of the manor and the principal landowners. The added in 1878 and the church thoroughly restored at a soil is loam; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, cost uf between £2,ooo and £3,ooo: there are 250 sit- barley, beans and turnips. The area is 1,026 acres ; tings: there are several very ancient monumental effigies I"ateable value, £1,351; the population in 19II was 184 in the church, and some ancient brasses, including in the civil parish and 209 in the ecclesiastical parish. a brass shield. The register dates from the year 1568, Under the provisions of the "Divided Parishes Act, bnt has been inaccurately kept. The living is a vicar- 1882," a part of Bergholt Road has been transferred agt>, net yearly va~ue £63, in the gift of trustees, and from this parish to Great Horkesley. held since 1897 by the Rev. John Storr B.A. of Corpus Post Office.-.Ml'S. Eliza Southernwood, sub-postmistress. f'hristi College, Cambridge, who is also rector of and Letters arrive through C
HORNCHURCH is a large village and parish, on the recast in 1778, 2 being added in 1901 : the chancel was road from Romford to Upminster, and bounded on the restored in r869 and a stained east window erected as a east and west by the rivers Ingrebonrn and Rom, with memorial to Thomas Mashiter esq. of Horn()hurch Lodge. a station {ID the London, Tllbury and Southend railway, d. 1862; and there are five others: the chancel has a 2 miles north-west, and the junction of the line to Rom reredos of carved stone, a piscina and sedilia; on the ford and 14 from London. The parish is in the Romford north wall of the tower is a curiously carved marble division of the county, Romford petty sessional division, tablet to Thomas Witherings esq. chief postmaster of nnion and county court district, and in the rural deanery Great Britain, ob. 1651: the church was restored in of Chafford, archdeaconry of Essex and Chelmsford 1871, at a cost of about £2,ooo, and again iu Ig<>o, at. a diocese. The village is lighted with gas supplied from further cost of £goo, and there are soo sittings. The Romford. The church of St. Andrew is an ancient register, which is in good condition, dates from the year building of stone in the Early Decorated and Perpen 1576. The living is a vicarage temporal, or chaplaincy,. dicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave with clerestory, and was formerly exempt from ecclesiastical jurisdic B1sles, north po:rch and a large embattled western towe.r tion, net yearly value £6oo, with residence, in the gift 1rith a turret and spire, the whole rising to a height of 120 of the Warden and Fellows of New College, Oxford, who feet and containing a clock and 8 bells, 6 of which were grant the benefice to the vicar by a special form of