DIREOTOBY .J . ABBEY DO RE. 17 ABBEYDORE, or Dore, is a parish and village, in the Post Office.-John James, sub-postmaster. Letters re­ Golden Valley and on the river Dore, and from which ceived through at 8.35 a.m. -on monday & the parish derives its name, with a station on the 7.40 a.m. on other days; dispatched at 4·55 p.m.; Golden Valley railway, which forms a junction at no delivery on sundays. Harold, 2 miles station ou the Newport, . and distant, is the nearest money order office & Pontrilas, Hereford railway, 2~ miles nDrth-west, 13 south-west 3 miles distant, the nearest telegraph office from Hereford, 14 west from Ross, and is the head of a union, in the Southern division of the county, Webtree Railway Station, William Bowes, station master; & at Bacton hundred, Hereford county court district, rural deanery of Abbeydore and arcbdeaconry and . JUSTICES OF THE PEACE FOR THE PETTY The church of St. Mary is a large building of red and grey sandstone and hard limestone, in the Transition SESSIONAL DIVISION OF DORE. Norman and Early English styles, and formerly belonged Gilbert-Harris Lieut. -Col. John Henry, Gilbertstone, tn the Cistercian abbey founded here in II47 bv Robert Longtown, Abergavenny, chairman Ewias, Lord of Ewias Harold: of the conventual church, Clive Capt. Percy .Archer M.P., D.L. Whitfield, Treville, the choir, with its aisles and eastern processional path, Hereford containing five chapels; the presbytery and the transept, Gibbs Charles Frederick esq. Fairfield, Peterchurcb with two eastern chapels in each wing, remain; one of Head Francis Somerville esq the latter, the south-east chapel, was restored in 1894 by Kennard Herbert esq. , Pontrilas, Hereford Miss Hoskyns, the onlv surviving daughter of Chandos Lucas-Scudamore Col. Edward Scudamore D.L. Castle Wren Hoskyns esq. late of Harewood, Herefordshire, and Shane, eo. Monaghan contains a late tomb, with arms, to Mr. Serjeant Hos­ Manley Arthur Lambert esq. Bacton grange, Pontrilas, kyns: the nave was originally of nine bays, two of which, Hereford at the east end, were occupied by the monks' choir, the McMichael .A.rtbur William esq. The Croft, , part westward being probably used as the church of the Hereford lay-brothers: the orig-inal Transition-Norman church was Partridge Richard Crawsbay Bailey esq. The Green, enlarged during the Early English period, when the whole Bacton, Hereford of the eastern arm was rebuilt as it now stands : at the Pearce Thomas esq. Vowchurch court, Hereford east end, over the altar, are three lofty arches, opening Prescott-Decie Col. Richd. D.L. Pontrilas court,Hereford into the ambulatory, the graining of which is carried on Prosser George esq. Llancillo ball, Abergavenny four slender shafts: the present altar-slab was discovered Rankin Lieut.-Col. Reginald L. Lower house, Waiter- and set up anew on some fragments of clustered shafts stone, Pandy, A bergavenny in 1634: the font, a simple octagon, has on its step, in Sherratt James esq. Trenant, Peterehurch, Hereford Lombardic capitals, the inscription: "HVGO OLIM Trafford Edwd. Guy esq. D.L.Windham club,London SW DECCAN DE WEBBELE ME FECIT." Hugh Bishop, Tyrwhitt-Drake Capt. John Charles, Dulas court, Pont- dean of Weobley, was there buried, and this step is rilas, Hereford supposed to have formed part of a churchyard cross. Wood Herbert Howorth esq. M . .A.., D.L. White house, In the o;onth choir aisle are two lockers and a stone Vowchurch, Hereford coffin, and in the south-east ehapel an aumbry and a The Chairman of the Dore Rural District Council, for the piscina: in the chancel is a small figure of Bishop Breton time being, is an ex-officio justice of Hereford (r269-75), but this monument, as appears Clerk to the Justices, Stephen Waiter Watkins, from the inscription, ·covered his heart only ; in the same Pontrilas ambulatory, on roughly made-up tombs on the east side, are two figures of knights bearing shields, one of which Petty Sessions are held at the Police Station on alternate is commonly believed to represent Robert Ewias, the mondays at II.30 a.m. founder, and the other Roger de Clifford: there are four The places within the petty sessional division nre :-. stained windows, three of which date from 1634, in which A bbeydore, Bacton, Oraswall, Dulas, Ewyas Harold, vear the church was restored by John 1st Viscount • • Kenderchurch, Kentchurch, Kilpecl,, Kingstone, Llan­ Scudamore of Sligo, and on the north wall of the transept cillo, Llanveynoe, Longtown, Madlev, Michaelchurch is an mscribed tablet, giving an account of this work, Escley, Newton, Peterchurch, Rowlstone, St. Deve­ and placed by M. Gibson, xector in 1739: the embattled reux, St. Margaret's, 1'hruxton, Tyberton, Treville, tower, entirely rebuilt in 1634, contains 6 bells: of the Turnastone, Vowchurch, , nave, the only remains above ground are the eastern responds, and the first pair of columns at that end, with Police Sergeant, Thomas Wright one arch: in 1907 the roof of the great transept was re-tiled, boarded and re-felt·ed, and further restoration is now ( I9I3) in progress; the total cost is estimated DORE RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. at about £3,500. In the autumn of 1895 the site was The townships in the District are the same as in the '\IV . 'Cnion, with the ex·ception of Grosmont and Llangua carefullv• excavated under the direction of Mr. R. Paul F.S.A. with the result that the whole plan of the in Monmoutbshire. The area is 68,057 acres; the nave, and the buildings on the east and west sides of population in 19II was 6,491. the cloister garth, were made out: at the second Council meets at Workhouse, Abbeydore, on every column from the east end of the nave traces were fourth monday at 12.30 p.m. found of the great screen, or pulpitum, five feet thick, Chairman, J. T. Powell, Town house, Madley, Hereford which divided the monastic choir from the nave proper: the foundations of the chapter house, a twelve-sided Officials. building, 42 feet in diameter, with a central shaft, Clerk, Richard Moore, 8 St. John street, Hereford were also uncovered, and various interesting remains, Treasurer, Edward Bellerby, National Provincial Bank of including portions of a shrine and other carved work, , HerPford and floor and roofing tiles were met with. The total Medical Officer of Health, Herbert Jones L.R.C.S.I., interior length of the church after its enlargment was D.P.H. St. Owen street, Hereford r 86 feet : the cloisters, on the north side, formed a Sanitary Inspectors, John Lewis, Pontrilas & Philip square of about 95 feet. The register dates from the Gwillim, Cwm Dulas year 1634. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £476, including 9 acres of glebe, with residence, in the DORE UNION. gift of R. C. B. Partridge esq. and held since rgu by the Rev. George Edward Philip Cave-Moyle M.A. of The union comprises the following parishes & townships Caius College, Cambridge. The charities are of about in Herefordshire, viz. : -~\ bbeydore, Bacton, Craswall, £6o yearlv value. Abbeydore Court, the residence of Dulas, Ewyas Harold, Kenderchurch, Kentchurch, , KingstDne, Llancillo, Llanveyno, Longtown, Capt. Henry B. Partridge, is a plain modern building of stone, pleasantly situated. Capt. Percy Archer Olive Madley, Michaelchurch Escley, Newton, , Peter­ M.P. of Treville, and Richard Crawshay Bailey Partridge church, Rowlstone, St. Devereux, St. Margaret's, Thruxton, Tyberton, Treville, Turnastone, Vowchureh, esq. J.P. of The Green, Bacton, are the principal land· 1Valterstone & Wormbridge & Grosmont & Llangua in owners. The soil is clayey and loamy ; the subsoil is Monmouthshire. The population of the union in 19II clay and sandstone. The chief crops are wheat, barley was 7,220; area, 75,567 acres; rateable value in 1913, and oats. The area is ;;,491 acres of land and 12 of £72,6!4 water; rateable value, £4,158; the population in I9II was 470, including 7 officers and 68 inmates of the Board day, monday, fortnightly, at the Workhouse workhouse. Chairman to the Board of Guardians, C. B. Lee Warner, Upper and Lower .Jury or Jewry, in this parish, are Tiberton court, near Hereford distorted forms of Gaelic for "Yew Wood." Clerk tD the Guardians, Richard Moore, 8 St. John st Hereford HEREFOlWSHT BE 2