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DIRECTORY.] :MIDDLESEX. EALii~G. 67 DRAYTON, see WEsT DRAYTON. EALING is a metropolitan suburban parish on the road with 68 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the to Uxbridge, 9 miles south-ea,st from that town, r~ Bishop of London, and held since 1886 by the Rev. north from Brentford, 6~ from umdon by road, and 5~ William Elliott Oliver LL.D. of Trinity College, Dublin. by rail on the main line of the Great Western railway, Christ Church is an ecclesia&tical parish, formed 19 which ha~ two stations here, viz. Ealing Broadway and Oct. 1852: the church, which adjoins the Broadway Castle Hill: the Metropolitan District Railway Co. has in the Uxbridge road, was erected for Miss Lewis in also stations at Ealing- Common and at the Broadway r852, at a cost of £ IO,ooo, from designs by the late adjoining the Great Western station, and another at Sir G. G. Scott R.A. and is a building of Kentish rag South Ealing- on their extension line to Hounslow, and Bath stone in the Geometrical Decorated style, 'Ealing gives its name to the Ealing division of the consisting of chancel, with south aisle, clerestoried county, and is in the Kensington division of the hundred nave, aisles, south porch and a western tower with of Ossulstone, Brentford petty sessional division, union crocketed pinnacles, and a. lofty octagonal spire, con and county court district, 'Vestern \Ietropolitan postal taining a peal of bells and a clock with three illuminated district, within the jurisdiation of the Central Criminal dials, striking the hours and Cambridge quarters: the Court and Metropolitan police, rural deanery of Ealing, stained east window is a. memorial to G. Wood esq. d. archdeaconry of Middlesex and diocese of London. The r865 and there are several other stained windowl'l: the "Local Government Act, r858" (2r & 22 Vict. c. church affords ooo sittings, of which 350 are appropri g8) was adopted 17 l\Iarch, r863, the board con- ated. The register dates from the year r852. The sisting of twelve members. The town is lighted living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £450, with with gas, but the Local Board has laid down wires residence, in the gift "pro hac vice" of Miss Lewis, for the lighting of the streets and of the shops and but afterwards of the Bishop of London, and held private houses by electricity, and the works have since r859 by the Rev. Joseph Stephen Hilliard M.A. been completed and are now (r8g4) in operation, and of St. John's College, Oxford. C{)nnected with this water is supplied by the Grand Junction Water Works church is the Mission Church of St. Saviour, built in Co. The parish of Ealing extends from the river the year r88r, at a cost of £2,ooo, and opened 2nd Brent, in the valley north of Castlebar Hill, to the February, r88r, and affording 650 sittings. Thames, forming a rough parallelogram of about 3~ St. John'~ parish, Ealing Dean, was first formed 27 miles long by 2 or 2~ broad, aud consists of the Oct. r876; by a subsequent order, 27 Jan, r885, the upper side, or Ealing proper, sometimes called Great boundary of the parish was extended by including parts Ealing, traversed by the "Cxbridge road or great road of the mother paris'h of St. Mary, and the ecclesiastical from London to Oxford; and the iower side, or Old parish of Christ Church: the church, built in r876, at Brentford, traversed by the other great_ road from a cost of abourt £8,ooo, from designs by :Mr. Edward London to Staines and the West of England. Ealing Horne, is a cruciform 'structure of brick with stone proper is divided ecclesiastically into seven parishes : and terra-cotta dressings, in the Early English style, the churches of St. George and St. Paul, Old Brent- consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, sastern and eentral ford, to which par~s of Ealing have been assigned, are transepts and a tower ove-r the chancel with angle described under Brentford. turrets and pinnacles and a. high pyramidal-crested roof, The p:ari~h church of St. Mary, built about 1770, and and contains r bell: there are several stained windows, reconstructed and enlarged in r866, at a total cost of including a memorial window to Admiral Sir Richard upwards of £g,ooo, is a. structure of brick in the Roman- Collinson K.C.B., F.R.G.S. the well-known navigator of esqne or Early French Gothic style, from designs by the the Polar Seas, d. 1882: there are sittings for r,rr5 late S. S. Teulon esq. and may be said to incorporate persons, sso being free. The register dates from the the old church, bui1t in 1739; it consists of apsidal year 1876. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value chancel, nave, baptistery, western narthex, north porch £5 ro, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of and a lofty western tower with circular stair turret, London, and held since 1867 by the Rev. Julius Summer and a. machicolated parapet relieved by pinnacles at the ha yes M. A. uf Queen's College, Cambridge. St. J ames' angles, from which rises an octagonal gabled lantern temporary iron church, in this parish, affords sittings witJh lofty spire: on either side of the tower are quasi- for about 350 persons. The Rev. W. Colquhoun M.A. transepts, forming additional porches, with low octagonal has been curate in charge since r894. A church room lanterns, having- conical roofs with ornamental finials : was erected in 1893 at a cost of £670. the narthex porch has an open arcading divided by bold St. 1fatthew's is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in buttresses into three bays, the angles being capped with r884 from the parish of St. Mary and ecclesiastical open octagonal pinnacles; the remaining buttresses, parish of Christ Church: the church, in North Common rising· above a quatrefoiled parapPt, bear the symbols road, ereoted in r884, is an edifice of red brick with of the evangelists: the tower, added in 1873, has 8 red sandstone dressings, in the Early English style. bells and a clock with one dial, striking the hours and and consists of chancel, nave, aisles and a morning \Vestminster quarters: the monuments from the old ohapel: there are sittings for r,ooo persons, over 6oo church !have been chiefly replaced at the west end, being free. The reg-ister dates from the year 1884. and include the followiTIQ": John Bowman B. D. a former The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £4oo, in vicar, ob. r629; Richard Taverner, ob. r638: Richard the gift "pro hac vice" of the Crown, but afterwards Agmondesham, temp. Henry VII. ; here also lie buried of the Bishop of London, and held since r885 by t.lll~ Sir John Maynard kt. serjeant-at-law, ob. 9 Oct. r6go; Rev. Henry Charles Douglass M.A. of Corpus Christi: .r ohn Oldmixon, a violent party writer and author of a college, Cambridge. "History of England," d. 9 July, 1742 and John Horne St. Peter's is an ecclesiastical parish formed in 189+ Tooke, politician and philologist, d. at Wimbledon, rg from Christ Church. The church, in Mount Park March, r8 12: there are sittings for about r,3oo, all of road, consecrated July 15, 1893, is an edifice of white which are free. The church was wholly and the church- brick and freestone, in a Late Continen~l Gothic style, yard almost entirely closed to interments by Order from designs by the late Mr . .T. D. Sedding F.R.I.B.A.. in Council, II April, 1854. Here were buried Robert architect, and consists of chancel, with vestries, nave. Orme, some 'time Commissary and Accountant General aisles, western narthex, porch and two western turrets, nnd author of "British Military IIistory in India," d. 13 the chancel has a larg-e circular window in the gablt Jan. r8or; Sir Frederick Morton Eden bart. author of and is separated from the nave by a low wall: the nave "A. History of the Labouring Classes," d. 14 Nov. is divided into three bays by plain piers with wide fiat r8og; and William King D.C.L. principal of St. Mary tened arches, supporting- on each side a blind storey, Hall, Oxford, and Public Orator, d. 30 Dec. 1763, to with a. triplet of pointed arches in euh bay, and whom there is a monument in the chapel of St. Mary intended to 'serve as galleries; the lower portion of the Hall, with a. singular inscription, written by himself, piers is panelled in wood, the aisles arc lighted by six and surmounted by a marble urn, containing his heart. large windows, with segmental heads, and are con Sir William Lawrence barl. F.R.S. the eminent surgeon, tinuous, except for a single buttress in the centre of who died in r867, also Dr. Nicholas, who died about the aisle; the whole structure is under a single roof, r865 and his father, who had in their day the largest rPlieved on each side by a. sort of parapet, rising from private school in England, numbering 300 boys, are also the blind stvrey below, and consisting of six very fiat buried in the churchyard. A lych gate of oak has been arches carrying a horizontal cornice, which is broken into erected at the west end of the churchyard at a cost of . three divisions by octagonal panelled turrets, with [,2oo, as a memorial to the Rev. Edward William domical capping and button finials, and between the~e Relton M.A.