SOMERSETSHIRE. ST.A~TO:'\ L'rior

SOMERSETSHIRE. ST.A~TO:'\ L'rior

DIRECTORY .J SOMERSETSHIRE. ST.A~TO:'\ l'RIOR. 337. Strachey chapel, there are several monuments to the FosteT telegraph office, arrive at 8.20 a. m.; dispatched 4-45 p.m.; and Lyde famili£>.s, now (r88g) being thoroughly restored at arrive on sundays, 9·55 a. m the expense of -sir Edward Strachey bart. D.L. and J.P.: A School Board of 5 members was formed February ;r6, at the east end of the church is the mortuary chapel of the 1887, for the united parishes of Stanton Drew & Pensford; Coates family, which is kept in repair by the lord of the G. Batten, Pensford, clerk to the board & attendan~ manor: the church is now (r889) being internally renovated officer and re-seated so as to afford sittings for 350 persons. The Board School (mixed), erected in 1857, for 120 children; t:egister commences from r651. The living is a vicarage, average attendance, 64; with an endowment of £32 .us .. with the curacy of Pensford annexed ; in r869 the united yearly & the same amount for apprenticing the boys ;. livings were raised by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Henry Evan.s, master the annual income of £288 (tithe rent-charge), and £1,400 granted towards the erection of a vicarage house in the Pensford (or ST. Tllol\US-IN-PENSFORD) is a village parish of Stanton Drew: the living is in the gift of the Arch· situated in a vale, on the road from Bristol to Wells, with a deacon of Bath, and has been held since r866 by the Rev. station on the North Somerset branch of the Great Western Henry Theodore Perfect T.A.K.C.L. There is a Wesleyan railway, 6 miles south from the former place and 125! chapel here, and a Friends' burial ground dating from 1669. from London. The river Chew runs through the village In a field about the centre of the parish, and near to the and divides it from the parish of Publow. Here is a viaduct church, are several clusters of huge stones, forming circles, of 16 arches on the North Somerset railway, 100 feet high, some of whi<'h lie flat on the ground, while others remain and spannin&" a valley of considerable depth. The church of erect : one of the circles is composed of fourteen stones, St. Thomas ~ Beckett, entirely rebuilt with the exception of another circle of about six, but some of these monoliths are the tower in 1868, is an edifice of stone in the Early Decorated not placed in any regular order; near Sandy lane is an style, consisting of quasi chancel, nave, north and south isolated fragment. According to Dr. F&gusson, these stones porches ami an embattled western tower containing a clock belong to the Arthurian age, and are commemorative of the and 2 bells: the original edifice was probably of the 14th nth battle of King Arthur, "in morte quod dicitur Agnea," century! the building has no chancel arch, but a screen of in the locality of Maes Knoll, fought when on his way from stone and ironwork divides the nave from that part used as a Caerleon on the Usk (9th battle), Severn ( 1oth battle), to chancel: the carved oak pulpit bears the date 1617: there Badon hill, where the 12th battle was fought. There is one are tablets to the Guy, Veale and Thompson families, and a stone on the road to Chew from Bristol, called the "King curious old stone font : the church has sittings for 200 Stone," or" Hautville's Quoit," of different material to the persons. The register dates from the year 1651. The living r-est, said by tradition to have been hurled by Sir John de is a perpetual curacy, value £7, annexed to the vicarage of Hautville, whose monument exists in Chew Magna church, Stanton Drew ; there is also a lectureship attached, founded f.rom Maes Knoll. The old copper works, afterwards con- by the Ireland family, worth about £27 yearly. There is verted into paper mills, are now (r889) closed. Stanton a Wesleyan Methodist chapel. Fairs were formerly held Court, the residence of Samuel Baker Coates esq. is an old on the 6th of May and 8th of November in each year, but and spacious building with a fine Gothic window. Belluton are now extinct. The principal landowners are the trustees House i~ the seat of Benjamin Hansford Hill tlsq. John of the late John Windmill, Miss Adams, William Arter, Locke the philosopher is said to have resided here. Samuel Miss Baird and trustees of " Church Lands Charity." The Baker Coates esq. who is lord of the manor, Sir Edward soil is very rich; the subsoil, red sandstone and limestone. Strachey hart. n.L., J.P. of Sutton Court, Bishop's Sutton, The chief crops are wheat and barley, the population in 1881 J. F. Fowler esq. and Lieut.-Col. William Hornidge Lans- was 262. down Daubeny esq. J.P. of Shockerwick, Bathford, are the Parish Clerk, John Primrose. chief landowners. The soil is chiefly sandy; subsoil, red PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. sandstone. The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. -Miss Annie Poynting, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive The area of the united parishes is 2,o61 acres; ratf>..able from Bristol at 7.30 a.m. & I p.m. ; dispatched at 5-35 value, including Pensford, £6,I54; the population in 1881 p.m. ; sundays, open from 8.45 to ro a.m. only; dis· (exclusive of Pensford) was 459· patched at 9 p.m Pari8h Clerk, William Stevens. Board School, erected in 185o, for 6o children; average PosT 0FI<'ICE.-James Hassell, receiver. Letters from attendance, 56; Miss Melinda Casling, mistress Bristol, via Pensford, which is the nearest money order & Railway Station, John Richard Langdon, station master Stanton Drew. Harris Wm. corn. agent, Belluton farm Flower James PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Hassall James, shopkeeper, PQ8t office Giles Miss, Hill side Arter Wallace Horlges John, farmer Long John Ashman Israel Keel Benjamin, farmer Neale Jonathan Corbett Burnett Albert Keel James, farmer Rodbard Henry Gregory Coates Samuel Baker, Stanton court Membrey Thomas, mason Windmill Mrs Fowler Mrs Payn George, Railway hotel COMMERCIAL. Gibbs J oseph Lovell, Bel ton house Perry I<'rederick, beer retailer Adams Robert Russell, butcher Hill Benjamin Hansford, Belluton house Rogers William, beer retailer Arter William, coal merchant, Hill side Hornidge Lieut. -Col. Wm. Twyford ho Russell George, horse dealer Batten George,clerk & attendance officer Humphries Mrs Scott John, farmer to the school board& assistant overseer Perfect Rev. Henry Theodore T.A.K.C. r... Selvey James, farmer Beer Amelia (Mrs.), dress maker Vicarage Slocombe Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Edwards Edward, earthenware dealer Ridge Mrs. Rosedale Stanton wick Flower Chas. saddler & harness maker Toll William Stanton Drew Harriers (John Fifoot Higgins Jas. beer retailer & blacksmith Turner John Fowler, hon. huntsman) Longman Elizabeth(Mrs.), beer retailer Stevens Thomas, farmer Luxford John, baker COMMERCIAL. Stevens William, carpenter ParkerMaryEmmaG.(Miss),brdng. schl Betts Ann (Miss), farmer, Church farm Stevens William, farmer, Crow farm Price Joseph, farmer · Brodribb William James, farmer TaylorHezekiah,beer retlr.Stanton wick Price Richard, grocer & farmer Chapman John, farmer Thomas Thos. farmer, Broad Oak farm Primrose John Richard Lukins, grocer Chislett George, farmer, Stanton wick Watson George, farmer Saunders Rebecca (Miss), dress maker Coward Albert.John,Foresters'Arms P.H Williams James, grocer Smart George, boot & shoe maker Cox Edwin, boot maker Wookey Thomas, farmer, Stanton wick Thompson Edward, baker Fowler John Harris, farmer, Elin farm Pensford. Weaver Charles, Rising Sun P.H Harris John, blacksmith Baird Miss, Bill house West William, shoe maker Harris Stephen, boot maker Battagal Nicholas, Hill side W ookey George, farmer STANTON PRIOR is a parish and village, 6 miles living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £r65, net south-west from Bath, 4 south-east from Keynsham station yearly value£ 182, including 20 acres of glebe, with residence, on the main line of the Great Western railway, and9 south­ in the gift of Earl Temple, and held since r886 by the Rev. east from Bristol, in the Northern division of the county, William Sainsbury Hrowne M.A. of Pembroke College, Keynsham hundred, petty sessional division and union, Bath Oxford. Henry Smith's charity of £16 yearly is for dis­ oounty court district, Keynsham district of the rural deanery tribution. Earl Temple, who is lord of the manor, and the of Bath, and archdeaconry and diocese of Bath and '\'ells. trustees of the late William Hooper esq .are the principal land­ The church of St. Lawrence is an ancient building of stone owners. There is an ancient entrenchment on Stantonbury in the Norman style, consisting of chancel, nave, north hill. The soil is stone brash; subsoil, stone and clav. The porch and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, con­ chief• crops are wheat, beans, oats and barley, and• about taining one bell : the church was restored in 1869, and has one-third pasture. The acreage is 841; rateable Talue, sittings for 6o persons. The reg-ister dates frcm 1557. The £1,225; the population in 1881 was 96. s. G. & n • .

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