14.501 . . [KELLY's • aisle was added in 1884: there are about 400 sittings. The Thl'! Brabazon Home, Lesbourne road, was founded in tBBs register dates from the year 1871. The living is a vicarage, by Lady Brabazon (now Countess of Meath) for chronic eases in the gift of the Bishop of Rochester, gross yearly value among the members of the Girls' Friendly Society: invalids £r2o, with residence, and held since 1885 by the Rev. who require medical care are also admitted: there are beds Malcolm Charles Baynes M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. for 20 patients; 4 girls are also admitted for industrial The area is 380 acres; and the population in 1881 was 82o, training. The home is partly supported by subscriptions. but has since greatly increased. The ancient Market House stood at the west end of th& The mission church in Nutley lane, attached to the town, near to Nutley lane, formerly the entrance to Reigat& church of St. Mark, was erected and endowed in 1864, at from London: an interesting crypt, with freestone, still mark& the sole expense of the late William Phillipps esq. ; and the site. has sittings for about 300 persons. The curacy, which has The Red Cross inn stands on the site of a very ancient. an endowment of £120 yearly, with residence, has chapel dedicated to the Holy Cross. been held since 1889 by the Rev. Da.rid Marshall Lang Another chapel, said to have been dedicated to St. Law- K.A. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge. rence, stood next to the White Hart hotel, and portions or The chapel of St. Cross on Reigate heath, formerly known the walls still remain. as "Mill chapel," and in connection with the parish church, Reigate Castle, supposed to have been founded before the- was at one time a mill. Norman Conquest, was taken from Earl Warrenne by th& There is a meeting-house for the Society of Friends, .with Dauphin Louis of France and the Barons in 1216, and was seats for 250. The Congregational church in High street, destroyed about 1648, the stone being carried away from erected in r831, and enlarged and refronted jn stone in time to time to form the road leading from Reigate to 1872, has 550 sittings. lhe Wesleyan chapel, High Buckland. Under the Castle keep is a cave, called "The­ street, built in r884, at a cost, including site, of £s,ooo, is Barons' Cave," with an arched roof cut in the silver sand, an elegant structure in the Romanesque style, from designs and a vault 150 feet long and 10 to 12 feet high, whence it by Mr. F. Boreham, architect, of London, and has sittings is traditionally stated that a subterranean passage leads to. for 500 persons. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel in the Priory of St. Mary and the Holy Cross, a house of Austin Lesbourne road, seating 150. Canons, founded by William de Warren (Plantagenet), Earl The Cemetery. formed in 1855, and since very greatly en- of Warren and Surrey, who died in 1240: the revenues at. larged, adjoins the graveyard of the parish church on the the Dissolution were estimated at £78 r6s. 8d. The stone­ east and south sides, but is separated therefrom by fine old gateway of the castle was erected in 1777 : the grounds were trees: it Contains about 12 acres: being adjacent to the some time since laid out as a public garden and planted witt, church, no mortuary chapel for Church of service · shrubs, trees and fldwers, under the direction of th 1late W. is required, but there is one for the use of Nonconformists j Wilson Saunders esq. F".R.S. ~ the castle and grounds belong­ and a portion of the ground is set apart for Catholics: the to the Corporation, and are at all times open to the public: cemetery includes a keeper's house, and is under the control a tunnel under the castle grounds was f01:·med some years of a Burial Board of nine members. i since, whence large quantities of sand have been taken, thus The Town Hall, erected in 1708, and situated in the 1 forming extensive vaults, which are now used principally by Market place, on the site of an ancient chapel of St. Thomas Messrs. F. Blackiston and Sons, as bonded stores, and by­ a Becket, is a plain edifice of red. brick, surmounted by a Messrs. Mellersh and Neale as beer stores; many varieties turret containing a clock with four illuminated dials ; it is of fungi grow in these caves, giving them a remarkable- now used for petty sessions and as a market room. appearance. The Public Hall, erected in r86r, at a cost of £s,ooo, is a At Wray Park is the model farm of George Si:npson esq. building in the Gothic style, its principal entrance being in the well-known breeder and exhibitor of pedigree Jersey High street, with offices on each side : the main hall will stock. seat 500 persons; the lower floor comprises a Literary In- The Priory, one of the seats of Lady Henry Somerset, now stitution, established in 1837, and now (x8go) numbering occupied by Sophia Marchioness of Anglesey, marks the site 300 members, with reading and other rooms and a library of the monastery, referred to above. After the Dissolution, of 4,000 volumes; other portions of the building are appro- in 1535• the estates were granted by Henry VIII. to William priated to the museum of the Holmesdale Natural History Howard, rst Baron Howard of Effingbam K.G. who resided Club and the Surrey Lodge of Freemasons, No. 416 ; and here, as also his son Charles, 2nd baron, and xst Earl of there are also kitchens and variom: offices. Nottingham K.G. the leader of the English fleet against the A corn market is held on Tuesday in each week .. The Armada. The mansion consists of a centre, with lateral fairs are on Whit Tuesday and December 9th. wings, and in the entrance-ball is a curious chimney-piere, The Youths' Institute, founded in 1875, was removed in formerly at Nonsuch Palace in Cuddington parish. 1885 to new premises in '''est street; the Science and Art Minster Lea is the residence of Sir John Rogers Jenningskt. classes are also here held. The town stands on a bed of white sand which is invalu- The~e is a drill she~, with armoury, for the 2nd yolunt~r able for gardening and nursery purposes, ~swell as for the Battalion (the. Quee~ s) Royal West Surrey- Regiment, m manufacture of fine glass; large quantities are obtained Chart road, With residence for the sergeant rnstructor. from works on the properties of Lady Henry Somerset and Henry Smith esq. of Wands":orth, alderman of .London Mr. G. E. Pym; fire stone and hearth stone are also pro­ (d. January 30, 1628), left by will dated 24th Aprd, 1627, cured in the neighbourhood £1,000 (or the poor of this town; in 1641, the trustees of . . · , this charity purchased lands at Rusper, , and Newdi- The pri~Cipal la~downers a:re Lady Henry Some~set, o! gate, Surrey, which came into the possession of the town in The He:mitage, _R_eigate, who IS lady of the manor, VIscoun 1689; by a scheme of the Court of Chancery, dated 8th Oxenbrtdge, Wdham H. Nash, Henry Clutton and John August r86o the charity then consisting of £3 922 xos. sd. Clutton esqrs. the trustees of A. J. Waterlow esq. W. B. stock, ~nd pr~ducing a ~tal gross income of £'u7 13s. 6d. Water low and Thomas, Bnrt H~ywood esqrs. the t~ustees of was applied in aid of the Grammar School, together with Samuel Relf esq. and George S1mpson and G. E. P)m esqrs. a sum of £53 13s. 6d. yearly, derived from an estate at The area is 5,675 acres of land, 34 water, 185 roads and Stoughton, Leicestershire, allotted to the town by the trus- III acres railways, making a total of 6,005 acres; rateabl~ tees in r641. value of Reigate Old Borough is £22,669; rateable value of Mrs. Kitto's Free Convalescent Home, first opened at Reigate Foreign, £u7,.of.9I; total rateable value, £140,16o. Bletchingly in 1872, was removed in x88o to a new building The parish and municipal borough are co-extensive: the situated in a healthy spot at South park. The aim of its population in r881 was 18,662, viz. 3,274 in the Old borough promoters has been to provide a home for those who have or Reigate, and 15,388 in the portion of the municipal no means of making such payments as ordinary convalescent borough called the Foreign. homes require, the majority of the patients coming from the Parish Clerk, St. Mary Magdelene, Edwin Knight, # east end parishes of London: there are beds for 13 men and Glovers road. 15 women and children: the home is supported by volun- Verger, St. Mark's, James Adams, Warren road. tary contributions. Verger, St. Luke's,. Thomas Lamport, South park. Official Establishments, Local Institutions &c. PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, [ sundays dispatched at 8.15 p.m. only. Money orders~ High street.-Arthur Bull, postmaster I granted & paid at this office from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. 15 Letters arriving from London & all parts are delivered at on saturdays until8 p.m. Telegraph business from 8 a.m. 7.15 & 10.15 a.m. 2.30 & 6 p.m. On week days; on ,sun- f to IO p.m.; on SUndays from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m days at 7.15 a.m. only. Box closes for dispatches at PosT, M. 0. & 'f. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, 9.25 a. m. for London & Redbill; 9·45 a.m. for Buckland, South park. James Sargant, receiver. Letters received Betchworth & Brockham; II.3o a. m. & 1.30 p.m. for from Reigate at 7.30 a.m.; dispatched at8.4o & u.Ioa.lii- London & Redhill; 4 p.m. for Dorking; 4.30 p.m. for & 2.25 & 7.15 p.m.; on sunday at 8.40 a.m. only London (for night mails through) & Redhill railway stae PosT, M. 0., B. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, Priory tion; 8 p.m. for London & Redbill; 9 p.m. for Kent & road, Woodbatch.-Thomas Burberry, receiver. Lettel'i Sussex generally; 10 p.m. for: London & Redhill; on arrive from Reigate at 6.30 & u a. m. & 6.30 p.m.; dis-