Chapel, in Burgess Street, Was Erected on the Site of an Old Chapel Dating Back for 200 Years

LEOMINSTER. The Congregational (or Independe1zt) Chapel, in Burgess street, was erected on the site of an old chapel dating back for 200 years. The chapel was opened for service in I 867. It is a brick building, with frees tone dressings, in the Decorated style of Gothic architecture. A tower with spire rises on the north-west angle to a height of nearly So feet, and forms a prominent object from all parts of the town. The total cost of the building was about £1,600. The Wesleyan Chapel, also in Burgess street, was erected in 1861 near the site of a former· structure. It has accommodation for 300 persons. The total cost of building (including site) was about £1 ,ooo. There is a mission room and Sunday school in Rain bow street. The Morav£an Chapel, in South street, was erected in 1759. The schools, which adjoin the chapel, were almost entirely rebuilt in 1874 at a cost of about £250. They are built of red-brick with Bath stone facings. The F1·£ends' Meet-ing House, in South street, is a plain building of red brick. The Baptist Chapel, in Etnam street, was erected in 1771, and further restored in 1857 and I 884. There is a burial-ground attached. The Pr£m£tz"ve Methodist Chapel, in Green lane, was erected in 1873 near the site of a former building. It is built of red brick with Bath stone dressings, and cost about £soo. The Plymouth Brethren meet at the Waterloo House, at the bottom of Broad street, where they have a large room for public worship, with a number of smaller rooms, furnished for the accommodation of the brethren from a distance who attend the various conferences. St. Ethelberfs Roman Catholic Church, Bargates, of which the Rev. Athanasius Rogers is priest, is a handsome Gothic structure in the Perpendicular style, designed by Messrs. Pugin & Pugin, of London. The building, which cost over £2,300, is of Godsall stone, with dressings of Bromsgrove stone. It consists of entrance porch, nave, sanctuary, side chapel, and sacristy. It is lit by twelve windows filled with tinted glass. The south window has four lights with richly traceried head ; the finely carved label beneath bearing the words "Ad Majorem De£ glon·am." The high altar, designed by Mr. Peter Paul Pugin, is of Runcorn stone. The reredos contains statues of the Blessed Virgin Mary with the Divine· Infant, and of St. Joseph. They are the work of Mr. A. B. Wall, of Chelten ham, and Mayer & Co., of Munich. The porch is of oak and glass. The church has accommodation for 200 persons, and all the seats are free. The cost of the church itself was defrayed by Mrs. Herbert, of Buckfield, who also gave the land. The side-chapel was erected by public subscription as a memorial to the Venerable Roger Cadwallador, who was executed for conscience sake, at Leominster, in 1610. ScHooLs AND CHARITIES. For many years an old-established middle-class school existed at the S.E. corner of the Grange, having, in its day, given more or less satisfaction to the tradesmen and farmers of the town and neighbourhood. Some two or three years since, Miss Davis having closed the servants' home in Corn square, Mr. Lees, the principal of the Grange school, took the premises, and, having fitted up a large school-room with suitable class-rooms, changed the old name of the school to that of" The Grange College." .

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