DIRECTORY.] . LONG SUTTON. 585 west tower with angle buttresses rising in the third rooms, at a cost of £x,7oo: the principal room will 1torey into octagonal arcaded turrets crowned with tall hold 400 persons. There are two branch banks and pinnacles, from within which rises an octagonal timber some corn mills. There are three clubs, the Long 1pire containing 6 bells : the tower and spire constitute Sutton Club, the Conservative, formed in July, 1886, and one of the most remarkable designs of the Early English the Liberal Club, formed in Jan. 1886; the club housea. or Lancet period in the kingdom, and is particularly are all in Market street. A eorn and cattle market is interesting as one of the very few which, having sur­ held on Friday; the fairs are on the 13th and 14th of. vived both fire and decay, remains still in its original May, and the first Friday after Sept. 25th. There condition : the spire is of wood, covered with lead, and are five charities with a gross income of upward• the pinnacles at its base are similarly constructed: at of £700 annually. Alien's charity derived from r81a. the north-east corner of the chancel is a small and 3r. ~9P· of land produces £434 annually-: under the re­ curious octagonal building of two .t~toreys, probably the vised scheme of the Charity Commissioners of 27 Jan. Bacristy, with a newel staircase leading to the upper tBBs, this is divided into the church branch with 4 chamber, which is groined, and has a window slit look­ U, the apprenticeship branch with y 1 and the poor's: ing into the chancel: the south porch is groined, and has branch with y4, of the sum : half of the first branch in a parvise above with embattled parapet: the north porch ~he hands of the vicar and churchwardens is for the has a small statue niche: the clerestory, added by Mr. maintenance of the music and half for the repairs of Alien, is a late and inferior work, but its north wall was the church; the apprenticement portion is applied inr faced about 1895 with ashlar, and new three-light Per­ premiums of £~o for boys from time to time, and the­ pendicular windows inserted from designs by Messrs. W. poor's branch is principally used for the maintenance of and C. A. Bassett-Smith, architects, at a cost of about a coal club and in assisting the sick. Phillips' charity: £7oo, defrayed out of the funds of Allen's of £200 yearly, originally left by Bobert Phillips in 149~. charity: the north aisle retains an aumbry, and in the for the maintenance of a priest to pray for his soul, was south aisle is a piscina : in the church is a sepulchral in 1548 vested in the Crown, but in 1584 it was directed elab, with a cross and the words "Jesu mercy, Lady by statute to be employed for charitable uses : half of help," and inscription to Alys, wife of John Thomas, this charity is now given away in doles on St. Thomali 1485: the font is octagonal: in one of the south windows day and the other half applied under a scheme of the­ is the figure of a knight being stung by a serpent ; Charity Commissioners for providing scholarships, exhi­ tradition says it represents John of Gaunt, but it is bitions and rewards for the benefit of children attending more probably intended for St. George and the Dragon: the Board schools. Tilson's charity, derived from 15 acres in 1853 a new east window was inserted, and afterwards of land, endows almshouses for 4 poor widows. Sowter'~ filled with stained glass in memory of Dr. Bailey; the charity is derived from 6! acres of land and 3 cottages.. west window, which is also stained, was a bequest of the the rent of one cottage going to the maintenance of two· late A. Howard esq. J.P. and cost £soo, and there are widows in the others. Rodgman's, arising from s! acres other windows to the Rev. Edward Leigh-Bennett, vicar of land in the hands of the vicar and churchwardens, is­ 1843-86, and Ann Hudson, his wife; to Robert Mossop for the repairs of the church and churchyard. 'l'h& and Mary, his wife; to the Dawes family and to the Wilfrey family in 1892 presented three acres of grasa. Rev. G. S. Leigh-Bennett B.A. late vicar 1887-1907: in land in the centre of the town for the purposes of a re­ r866 the interior was refloored and reseated, the south creation ground. Sutton once contained a monastery aisle roof partly renewed in oak, and other works called Ketel ; and in the marsh is a farm called " King's­ executed in the nave, at a total cost of about £~,ooo, House," where King John is said to have rested after· under the direction of Messrs. Slater and Carpenter, of having lost his carriages and baggage in the Wash. : the chancel was also substantially repaired There are three manors, viz. :-Sutton Holland, the­ by the impropriators at a cost of £7oo: in 18&8 the largest, of which Messrs. Welchman and Dewing, of roof of the nave was renovated at a cost of £363 ros. : Wisbech, and several others are lords; Guanock manor,. the pulpit is a memorial to the late Mr. Thomas Peel, of which Richard Peele Mossop esq. of Devonshire, is and there is a good eagle lE>ctern of brass: the richly lord ; and the manor of Cranwell, of which Samuel carved stone sedilia were erected in 1889, from a design Septimus Mossop esq. of Long Sutton, is lord. The­ by Mr. William Bassett-Smith, architect, in memory of principal landowners are G. F. C. Howard esq. J.P. the Rev. E. Leigh-Bennett, vicar 1843-86: there are 900 Fitzalan Howard esq. of Spalding, and the Mossop sittings, mostly appropriated. The register dates from family. The soil of the Marshland is a light loam ; th(' year 1672, but there il! an earlier register deposited subsoil, silt ; most of the fen land is stiff clay. The in the diocesan registry at Lincoln. The living is a chief crops are wheat, mustard, potatoes and roots. vicarage, net yearly value £soB, with 4 acres of glebe, The area of the and Urban District is 3•907 and residence, in the gift of Mrs. Small, and held since acres of land and 16 of water; rateable value, £II,I7I;; 1907 by the Rev. Thomas Dixon-Spain. The organist, the population in I9II was ~.837. organ-blower and choir are maintained by an endowment. There is • Congregational chapel, built in IBIS, with Parish Clerk, Henry Chinner Watts. 450 sittings, a United Methodist chapel, built in 1876, a LliTI.E SUTTON is a civil parish, and comprises that; Wesleyan chapel, built in 1839 and reseated in r888, portion of the parish formerly known as the Common. and a Baptist chapel, erected in 1840, with sitting!! The area is 746 acres; rateable value, £t,IOI; popula­ for 380 persons. A handsome building was erected in tion in 19II, 52. 1856 to 11erve as a Corn Exchange, market and public

OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS, LOCAL I~STITUTIONS &c. Post, M. 0. & T. 0. & Telephonic Express Delivery Officers. Office.-Herbert E. Fletcher, sub-postmaster. Letters Clerk, Samuel Septimus Mossop, Churchyard from Wisbech arrive at 4·45 & 10.45 a.m. & 1.45 Treasurer, A. E. Clarke, Wisbech p.m. ; dispatched at 3.15 & 8 p.m. via Wisbech; Medical Officer of Health, William Arthur Wilson-Smith 8.55 a. m. & 1.15 p.m. to Peterborough & all parts; M.D., D.P.H.Edin. Brunswick terrace sundays, dispatched at 8 p.m. ; no delivery on suo­ Surveyor, Sanitary Inspector & Collector, Arthur Askew days, but letters may be had at the Post office from Piccaver, London road 8.30 to ro a.m Wall Letter Boxes.-Little London, cleared 7·45 a.m. & COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR ELLOE PETTY 12.15.• 2.30 & 7· 10 p.m.; Crosses, 9 a. m. & 6.~5 p.m. ; SESSIONAL DIVISION. Railway station, 7.15 & II.3o a.m & ~ & 7.10 p.m. Howard George Frederick Curtois esq. Long Sutton,. wE"ek days only; London road, cleared at 7.30 a. m. & chairman I~ noon & 2. 15 & 7· 15 p.m. ; Chapel bridge, 7.30 & Cartt~r Lawrence esq. Ketton grange, Stamford II-45 a.m. & ~.rs & 7-~o :P.m.; Seagate rd. (Rectory), Olark Henry esq. Clay hall, Spalding 11.45 a.m. & 6.Io p.m Dawes Edwin esq. Sutton house, Long Sutton Howard Fitzalan esq. Holyrood house, Spalding URBAN DISTRICT OOUNCIL. Merry Robert esq. Littleport house, Fleet, Offices, Churchyard. Skelton George esq. Northaw, Etchingham Park road,. Meetings held third thnrsday in the month at 7 p.m. Finchley, London N Members. The Chairmen, for the time being, of the Sutton Bridge­ & Long Sutton Urban ili East Elloe Rural District All retire April, 1916. Councils Bre ex-officio magistrate• Chairman, Philip J. White. Clerk to the Magistrates,Sl.Septimus Mossop,Churchyd Vice-Chairman, George Clarke. Petty Sessions held at the Court house, once a month, at Frank Brooks Joseph Searson 10 a.m. The following places are included in the petty Sam Fletcher Joseph Walton s£'s!!ional sub-divj!ion :-Lon~ Sutton, Tydd St. Mary. Harry Hickman Th mas Warrick Sutton 1l:idgE", Lutton, Sutton St. J am£'s k Wingland