Hemley (All Saints)
HEMLEY (All Saints), a parish, in the union of
Woodbridge, hundred of Colneis, E. division of Suffolk, 5 miles (S. by E.) from Woodbridge; containing
71 inhabitants. The parish comprises 741a. 32p.; and
the river Deben, which is navigable, skirts it on the
east. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the
king's books at £4. 19. 2., and in the patronage of the
Crown; net income, £150.
Hemlington
HEMLINGTON, a township, in the parish of Stainton, union of Stokesley, W. division of the liberty of
Langbaurgh, N. riding of York, 4¼ miles (N. by W.)
from Stokesley; containing 71 inhabitants. The township forms part of the district called Cleveland, and
comprises by computation 1076 acres: the village is
situated on the road from Stokesley to Stockton.
Hemlington-Row
HEMLINGTON-ROW, a township, in the parish of
Brancepeth, union of Auckland, N. W. division of
Darlington ward, S. division of the county of Durham,
4¼ miles (N. W. by N.) from Bishop-Auckland; containing 435 inhabitants. It is situated on the road from
Crook to Willington, a short distance north-west of the
river Wear, and comprises about 1580 acres of land.
The tithes have been commuted for £85. 5.
Hempholme
HEMPHOLME, a township, in the parish of Leven,
union of Skirlaugh, N. division of the wapentake of
Holderness, E. riding of York, 10½ miles (N. N. E.)
from Beverley; containing 109 inhabitants. The township includes the hamlets of Hempholme, Hayholme,
and Hallytreeholme; and comprises about 1285 acres.
The principal house is situated on a hill, whence a
prospect is obtained of the carrs stretching south-east
to Leven, and north-east towards Brandsburton, Beeford, and North Frodingham: the vicinity is well
wooded.
Hempnall (St. Margaret)
HEMPNALL (St. Margaret), a parish, and formerly a market-town, in the union and hundred of
Depwade, E. division of Norfolk, 4 miles (E. by N.)
from Long Stratton; containing 1255 inhabitants. This
parish, which is also called Hemenhall, is situated two
miles east of the road from Norwich to Ipswich, and
comprises about 3627 acres, whereof 2681 are arable,
661 pasture, and 250 woodland. Great quantities of
hurdles and hoops are made; and fairs are held on
Whit-Monday and December 2nd. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at £6. 13. 4.; patron,
I. T. Mott, Esq.; impropriator and incumbent, the Rev.
R. Rolfe. The great tithes have been commuted for
£599. 15., and the vicarial for £382. 15.; the glebe
consists of 46 acres. The church is a handsome structure in the later English style, with a lofty square
embattled tower. There are places of worship for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists.
Hempstead (St. Andrew)
HEMPSTEAD (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union
of Saffron-Walden, hundred of Freshwell, N. division of Essex, 5 miles (N. W.) from Finchingfield;
containing 798 inhabitants. This parish, which was
formerly a chapelry in the parish of Great Sampford,
comprises 3507a. 1r. 11p. The soil is generally a stiff
clay, with a substratum of marl, and by draining is
rendered tolerably fertile; the surface is richly wooded.
The living is annexed to the vicarage of Great Sampford.
The church, an ancient edifice with a lofty tower, is situated on an eminence nearly in the centre of the parish;
on the north side is a sepulchral chapel, in which are
several monuments to the Harvey family, including one
to the memory of the celebrated Dr. Harvey, who was
buried here on the 26th of June, 1657. The ancient
mansion of Hempstead Hall is about two miles distant
from the church, in a north-eastern direction: the
manor, at the time of the Domesday survey, belonged to
Richard Fitz-Gislebert, from whom it passed to one of
the earls of Clare; it soon afterwards came to the Veres,
earls of Oxford, and among subsequent owners have
been the families of Watevil, Cotton, and Harvey, the
last of whom held it for many generations.
Hempstead (St. Swithin)
HEMPSTEAD (St. Swithin), a parish, in the Middle division of the hundred of Dudstone and King'sBarton, union, and E. division of the county, of Gloucester, 1¾ mile (S. W. by W.) from Gloucester; containing 224 inhabitants. The Gloucester and Berkeley
canal passes through the parish, and the navigable river
Severn runs along its western boundary. The living is
a rectory, valued in the king's books at £8; net income
£449; patron, J. Higford, Esq. In a field are vestiges
of some earthworks thrown up by the royalists during
the civil war.
Hempstead (St. Andrew)
HEMPSTEAD (St. Andrew), a parish, in the hundred of Happing, E. division of Norfolk, 3½ miles
(N. E.) from Stalham; containing 175 inhabitants. It
comprises 907a. 2r. 5p., of which 679 acres are arable,
207 pasture and meadow, and the remainder roads and
waste. The living is a discharged rectory, with that of
Lessingham consolidated, valued in the king's books at
£9. 6. 8.; net income, £542; patrons, the Provost and
Fellows of King's College, Cambridge. The tithes of the
parish have been commuted for £273. 10., and there are
48 acres of glebe. The church is a handsome structure
in the later English style, with a square embattled tower;
the nave is separated from the chancel by a richly carved
screen, in the lower compartments of which are figures
of the Apostles.
Hempstead (All Saints)
HEMPSTEAD (All Saints), a parish, in the union
of Erpingham, hundred of Holt, W. division of Norfolk, 1½ mile (S. E.) from Holt; containing 296 inhabitants. It comprises 1756a. 2r. 8p., of which 1187
acres are arable, 200 in sheep-walks, 184 meadow and
pasture, 161 woodland, and the remainder common and
roads. In the vale of the Glaven is a large decoy for
wild-fowl. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued
in the king's books at £7. 2. 6.; patrons and appropriators, the Dean and Chapter of Norwich: the great tithes
have been commuted for £270, and the vicarial for £140;
the glebe comprises 15a. 3r. 9p. The church consists of
a nave, with a low brick tower at the north-west end
erected in 1744.
Hempstead, Hemel (St. Mary)
HEMPSTEAD, HEMEL
(St. Mary), a market-town
and parish, and the head of
a union, in the hundred of
Dacorum, county of Hertford; containing, with the
chapelries of Bovingdon and
Flaunden, 7268 inhabitants,
of whom 5901 are in the
town, 19½ miles (W. by S.)
from Hertford, and 23 (N.
W.) from London. This
place appears from the name
to owe its origin to the Saxons, by whom, on account
of its situation among the hills near the confluence
of the rivers Gade and Bulborn, it was called Hean
Hampstede, implying a dwelling in a high or elevated
situation. It was given by Offa, King of Mercia, to
the abbey of St. Alban's. In Domesday book it is
noticed under the names Henamstede and Hamelamstede,
from which latter its present appellation is evidently
deduced. The town is pleasantly situated on the declivity of a hill, in a fertile valley watered by the river
Gade, which has its source within a distance of four
miles; and consists chiefly of one street, nearly a mile
in length, partially paved and lighted: the houses are
irregularly built, but of neat and respectable appearance,
and the inhabitants are amply supplied with water. The
principal article of manufacture is straw-plat, which
affords employment to nearly all the women and children of the labouring class; and there are several corn
and paper mills in the vicinity. The Grand Junction
canal, by means of which the neighbourhood is supplied
with coal from Staffordshire and Leicestershire, and the
London and Birmingham railway, pass through Box
Moor, within one mile of the town, where is a station.
The market is on Thursday, and is one of the largest in
the county; a market is also held on the morning of
the same day for straw-plat. The fairs are on Holy-Thursday, for cattle and sheep; the Thursday after
Trinity-Sunday, for horses, cattle, and sheep; on the
last Friday in June, for the sale of wool; and the third
Monday in September, which is a statute-fair for hiring
servants. The inhabitants received a charter of incorporation from Henry VIII., which was renewed to them
by Cromwell on their acceding to the solemn league and
covenant. By this charter, the government is vested in
a bailiff, who is assisted by a jury of the principal inhabitants, acting as his council; the bailiff is chosen
on St. Andrew's day, but possesses no magisterial
authority. The court leet of the lord of the manor is,
by permission of the bailiff, held in the town-hall, a long
narrow building supported on square wooden pillars;
where, also, a meeting of the county magistrates takes
place every alternate week.
Corporation Seal.
The parish, exclusively of the two chapelries, comprises 7136 acres, of which 320 are waste land or common. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's
books at £16. 1. 10½., and in the presentation of the
Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, London (the appropriators), on the nomination of the Bishop of Lincoln.
The great tithes of Hemel-Hempstead have been commuted for £1819, and the small for £501. The church
is a spacious cruciform structure, partly in the Norman
style, with an embattled tower surmounted by a lofty
spire: the chancel is finely groined, and the east window
embellished with painted glass; there is also a finely
painted window at the west end, presented by the late
Sir Astley Paston Cooper, Bart. The building has been
enlarged, and a gallery built. The chapelries of Bovingdon and Flaunden were in 1834 separated from the
mother church, and endowed. A district church has
been erected on Box Moor, and endowed independently
of the vicar, who, however, has the presentation; net
income, £150. It contains 400 free sittings, the Incorporated Society having granted £400 in aid of the expense. There are places of worship for Baptists, the
Society of Friends, Huntingtonians, and Wesleyans. A
charity school for boys, endowed with £25 per annum,
and a school for girls, which has £13. 10. per annum,
have been consolidated. The West Herts Infirmary, at
first established at Picott's-End, in the parish, and supported by subscription, has lately been endowed with
£100 per annum for the house surgeon by Sir John
Saunders Sebright, who has also erected a spacious
building at the south entrance to the town. The union
of Hemel-Hempstead comprises 6 parishes or places, and
contains 11,499 inhabitants: the poor-house, built in
1836, stands on an elevated and healthy spot overlooking the town, and is calculated to contain 200 paupers.
The remains of the old mansion-house of the Bury
family, originally the residence of Sir Richard Combe,
a favourite of Henry VIII.'s, consist only of a gateway,
from a window over which the king is said to have delivered the charter. In Lockers' House are some curious
apartments, thought to have been built by that monarch,
and in the ceilings of which the royal arms are still preserved. There are also some remains of ancient buildings at a place called Heaven's Gate, on the north-east
boundary of the parish. At Picott's-End, and at Noak
Mill, in the vicinity of the town, are saline and chalybeate springs, said to be similar to the waters of Cheltenham; and many petrifactions of sponge and other
fossils, susceptible of a very high polish, are found in
the vicinity, which abounds likewise with fine specimens
of chalcedony. Dr. Hugh Smith, an eminent physician
and medical lecturer, was born at Hemel-Hempstead, in
the year 1733; and Sir Astley Paston Cooper, Bart.,
pre-eminently distinguished for his skill in surgery, and
who died in 1841, resided in the neighbourhood.
Hempston, Broad
HEMPSTON, BROAD, a parish, in the union of
Newton-Abbott, hundred of Haytor, Teignbridge and
S. division of Devon, 4 miles (S. E.) from Ashburton;
containing 747 inhabitants. The parish is situated in a
secluded part of the county, about two miles and a half
from the river Dart, and comprises by survey 1963
acres, of which 1897 are in a profitable state of cultivation. Excellent limestone is abundant, and two quarries
are wrought for burning into lime. Many of the females
are employed in weaving serge for the manufacturers of
Totnes and Ashburton. The living is a vicarage, valued
in the king's books at £25. 6. 8., and in the patronage
of the Crown; the impropriation belongs to the Corporations of Rochester and Maidstone. The tithes have
been commuted for £266, and the glebe comprises 34
acres. The church is a plain neat structure. There is
a place of worship for Wesleyans.
Hempston, Little (St. John the Baptist)
HEMPSTON, LITTLE (St. John the Baptist), a
parish, in the union of Totnes, hundred of Haytor,
Paignton and S. divisions of Devon, 1¾ mile (N. by E.)
from Totnes; containing 268 inhabitants. This parish,
which is on the road from Exeter to Plymouth, and
partly bounded by the river Dart, comprises 1235a. 1r.:
limestone is quarried for repairing the roads and for
burning into lime. The living is a rectory, valued in
the king's books at £19. 15. 2½., and in the patronage
of the Crown: the tithes have been commuted for £200,
and the glebe comprises 60 acres. The church, a wellbuilt structure with a square embattled tower, contains
monuments with recumbent effigies of Knights Templars,
some screen-work, and painted glass. The old glebehouse, supposed to have been erected in the reign of
Richard II., is still preserved as a farmhouse, though
a new residence has been erected for the incumbent, in
a handsome style. There are benefactions amounting
to £30 per annum for the poor. The Rev. Stephen
Weston, eminent for his attainments in oriental literature, was rector of the parish for many years.
Hempton, with Patchway
HEMPTON, with Patchway, a tything, in the parish
of Almondsbury, union of Thornbury, Lower division
of the hundred of Langley and Swinehead, W. division of the county of Gloucester, 6½ miles (S. by W.)
from Thornbury; containing 356 inhabitants.
Hempton (St. Andrew)
HEMPTON (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union
of Walsingham, hundred of Gallow, W. division of
Norfolk, ¾ of a mile (S. W.) from Fakenham; containing 447 inhabitants. A priory was founded here in
the reign of Henry I., for Augustine canons, to whom
King John granted a fair; and in the 4th of Edward I.,
the prior obtained leave for a market on Tuesday, but
it has long been discontinued. Slight vestiges of the
priory remain on the farm called the Abbey Farm. The
revenue at the Dissolution was £39. 0. 9. The parish
comprises about 500 acres, of which 300 are arable,
124 pasture and meadow, and 68 acres sheep-walks.
Cattle and horse fairs are held on Whit-Tuesday and
Nov. 22nd, and the latter is remarkable for its extensive
show of cattle. The houses of the village are dispersed
on the margin of a fine green. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the patronage of the Crown. The church was
standing in the 12th of Henry VII., but was at length
taken down, and the parishioners now attend Fakenham
church. In a tumulus on the heath, an urn has been
dug up.
Hempton
HEMPTON, a township, in the parish of Deddington, union of Woodstock, hundred of Wootton,
county of Oxford, 1½ mile (W.) from Deddington;
containing 305 inhabitants.
Hemsby (St. Mary)
HEMSBY (St. Mary), a parish, in the hundred of
West Flegg, E. division of Norfolk, 7 miles (N. by
W.) from Yarmouth; containing 591 inhabitants. The
parish is bounded on the east by the sea, and comprises
1743 acres, of which 1412 are arable, and the remainder,
with the exception of 57 acres of waste or common,
good meadow land. The Hall, a neat mansion with
tastefully laid out grounds, is the residence of R. Copeman, Esq., lord of the manor, who holds a court in
November. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued
in the king's books at £4. 6. 8.; patron and chief
impropriator, Mr. Copeman. The great tithes have
been commuted for £75, and the small for £185: the
vicar has a glebe of 27 acres. The church is principally
in the later English style, with a lofty embattled tower;
the font is curiously sculptured. There is a place of
worship for Primitive Methodists. At the inclosure,
fifteen acres were allotted to the poor for fuel, and nine
acres to be let out in portions for gardens.
Hemswell (All Saints)
HEMSWELL (All Saints), a parish, in the union
of Gainsborough, W. division of the wapentake of
Aslacoe, parts of Lindsey, county of Lincoln, 7½
miles (E.) from Gainsborough; containing 399 inhabitants. The living, formerly a rectory, valued in the
king's books at £27. 13. 4., is now a perpetual curacy:
net income, £63; patron, the Rev. J. Adcock. The tithes
were commuted for land and a money payment in 1792.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyans. In the
parish is the hamlet of Spittal, which derives its name
from an hospital, founded for poor widows prior to the
16th of Edward II., and which is under the patronage
of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln: attached to it is
a small chapel. A sessions house was built in 1620,
by Chief Justice Wray. A fair is held in the hamlet on
November 22nd.
Hemsworth (St. Helen)
HEMSWORTH (St. Helen), a parish, in the wapentake of Staincross, W. riding of York, 6½ miles
(S. S. W.) from Pontefract; containing 1005 inhabitants. The parish includes the hamlet of Little Hemsworth, and comprises by computation 4120 acres. There
are some quarries of gritstone. The village, which is
large and well built, is situated on a gentle eminence,
and the surrounding scenery is pleasingly diversified.
The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at
£20. 1. 0½.; net income, £1064; patron, W. B. Wrightson, Esq.: the tithes were commuted for land and a
corn rent in 1803. The church is a handsome structure, chiefly in the later English style, with some windows at the east end in the decorated style. There is a
place of worship for Wesleyans. The free grammar
school was founded in the reign of Henry VIII., by
Robert Holgate, Archbishop of York, who endowed it
with property producing in 1826 £400 per annum, but
now yielding only £98, to which, however, may be added
fines on the renewal of leases. Attached to the foundation is a scholarship in St. John's College, Cambridge,
with preference to natives of Wakefield, Felkirk, and
Hemsworth. The archbishop also founded an hospital
for a master, ten brethren, and ten sisters, and endowed
it with lands producing a rental of £2300, exclusive of
fines on the renewal of leases; the master, who must
be in holy orders, receives one-fifth of the income, and
the remainder is equally divided among the brethren
and sisters, yielding to each of them about £100 per
annum. The building consists of a handsome range of
houses, with a chapel in the centre, and a good house
for the master at the southern extremity.
Hemyock (St. Mary)
HEMYOCK (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of
Wellington, hundred of Hemyock, Cullompton and
N. divisions of Devon, 5 miles (S.) from Wellington;
containing 1222 inhabitants. The parish is situated on
the river Culm, and comprises 4704 acres, of which 787
are waste land or common. The living is a rectory,
valued in the king's books at £32. 0. 7½.; net income,
£694; patron, Gen. Popham: the glebe comprises 120
acres. There is a chapel of ease at Culm-Davey. The
Baptists and Wesleyans have places of worship. Here
are the remains of a castle, which is said to have been
garrisoned by the parliamentary forces during the civil
war; the east entrance has a pointed doorway, and
there are the relics of five towers. At the northern
extremity of the parish is a large cairn.
Henbury, with Pexall
HENBURY, with Pexall, a township, in the
parish of Prestbury, union and hundred of Macclesfield, N. division of the county of Chester, 2½ miles
(W.) from Macclesfield; containing 453 inhabitants.
The manor of Henbury cum Pexall belonged anciently
to the Mainwarings, from whom it passed by marriage
to the Trussells; and about the close of the 14th century, it became the property of the Davenports. Sir
Foulke Lucy, who married the heiress of this branch of
that ancient family, was lord of the manor in 1662; he
afterwards sold the estate to Sir William Meredith,
Bart., whose descendant of the same name conveyed it
by sale about the year 1779 to John Bower Jodrell, Esq.
The township lies on the road from Macclesfield to
Knutsford, and comprises 1492 acres, of a gravelly soil.
A church was consecrated on February 20th, 1845; it
is a neat edifice, with a spire rising nearly 70 feet, and
cost about £1600, one-half of which was given by
Major Marsland, of Henbury Hall, who endowed the
living with £1000. The total net income is £120;
patron, the Bishop of Chester.
Henbury (St. Mary)
HENBURY (St. Mary), a parish, in the unions of
Clifton and Thornbury, partly in the Lower division
of the hundred of Berkeley, and partly in the Lower
and Upper divisions of the hundred of Henbury, W.
division of the county of Gloucester, 4¼ miles (N.
N. W.) from Bristol; containing, with the chapelry of
Aust, and the tythings of Charlton, Compton, King'sWeston, and Lawrence-Weston, 2439 inhabitants. This
parish is supposed to have derived its name from the
Saxon Hean or Hen, Old, and Byrig, a fortified place.
It is bounded on the west by the Severn, and on the
south-west by the river Avon, which falls into the former at the Swash: the estimated number of acres is
about 12,000, chiefly meadow and pasture; the surface
is partly flat, and that portion of it in which the village
is situated is gradually rising ground. The village is
remarkably pleasant, and, from its vicinity to Bristol,
is the residence of many of the opulent citizens. There
are two passages of the Severn in the parish; the old
one in the hamlet of Redwick, and that at Aust, where
the river is nearly two miles across. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £30;
joint patrons, Viscount Middleton, Sir S. Smyth, Bart.,
E. F. Colston, Esq., and the Rev. C. Gore; impropriator, H. C. Lippincott, Esq. The vicarial tithes have
been commuted for £838. The church is a spacious
and handsome edifice in the early English style, with
decorated and later insertions: the churchyard is surrounded with ivy-mantled walls, and enlivened with
numerous evergreens. There are chapels of ease at
Aust and Northwick. A free school, or hospital, was
founded in 1623, by Anthony Edmonds, and endowed
by him with the proceeds of certain lands: the income,
augmented in 1736 by a bequest from Christopher Cole,
Esq., is about £130; but the charity has been suspended since 1815, in consequence of great injury done
to the property by an inundation of the Severn. In
1756, Robert Sandford bequeathed £1500, the proceeds
to be employed in instructing poor children. Here are
the remains of an old chapel dedicated to St. Blazius, a
Spanish martyr, near which is a castellated summerhouse, called Blaize Castle, commanding a most delightful prospect; and upon the hill whereon the building
stands is an encampment, with triple ramparts and two
deep ditches, having two entrances at the opposite
angles, on the line of the ancient Fosse-way: this work
is commonly ascribed to the Britons, but the discovery
of coins and other relics evinces its occupation by the
Romans.
Henderskelf, or Castle-Howard
HENDERSKELF, or Castle-Howard, an extraparochial liberty, adjoining the parish of Bulmer, in the
wapentake of Bulmer, union of Malton, N. riding of
York, 3 miles (N.) from Whitwell; containing 157 inhabitants. Henderskelf is situated in the midst of a
fertile and well wooded country, and comprises about
1620 acres of land, nearly the whole of which is comprehended in the park and pleasure-grounds of the Earl
of Carlisle, in whom are vested all the rights and privileges of the manor. The mansion of Castle-Howard,
the splendid family seat of the earls, was commenced in
1701, and completed in 1731, on the site of the old
castle of Henderskelf, accidentally destroyed by fire; it
is in the Grecian style, from designs by Sir John Vanbrugh, and has a front extending upwards of 360 feet.
The interior is tastefully fitted up; the walls and dome
are painted in fresco by Peligrini, and among other devices are, the Fall of Phaeton, Apollo and Midas, the
Nine Muses, and the twelve signs of the Zodiac. Here
is an ample and choice collection of paintings, statues,
busts, &c., with a museum, and an antique gallery replete with curiosities. At the junction of beautiful
avenues, and bordered on each side with lofty trees,
stands a stately quadrangular obelisk, 100 feet in height,
erected in 1714, to commemorate the victories of the
Duke of Marlborough; and about half a mile eastward
of the house is an Ionic temple, with four porticos, and
a magnificent interior. The grounds are ornamented
with several pieces of water, and on the north side is a
lake covering one hundred acres. The chapel was built
about eighty years since, in a very superior style, at the
expense of the then Earl of Carlisle. There is an inn
at the south entrance of the park. In the great storm
in January, 1839, nearly 3000 tons of fine timber were
blown down in the demesne.
Hendford, Somerset.—See Yeovil.
HENDFORD, Somerset.—See Yeovil.
Hendon (St. Mary)
HENDON (St. Mary), a parish, and the head of a
union, in the hundred of Gore, county of Middlesex,
7 miles (N. W.) from London; containing 3327 inhabitants. This place was in the tenth century given by
Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, to the abbots of
Westminster, who had a palace here, the remains of
which have been converted into a private mansion. The
village is pleasantly situated on an eminence, in a small
vale watered by the river Brent, over which is an ancient
bridge of stone; the houses are irregularly built. The
parish contains numerous villas, and abounds with rural
walks and agreeable scenery. On Highwood Hill is a
mansion in which Lord William Russell resided previously to his arrest, now occupied by Lady Raffles; and
near it is a mineral spring impregnated with cathartic
salt. Hendon Place, the seat of Lord Tenterden, and
once a banqueting-house belonging to Queen Elizabeth,
is a handsome mansion, consisting of a centre and two
wings, with a magnificent ball-room attached by a light
arcade; the grounds have a fine undulated surface, and
are enriched with some noble timber: a remarkably
beautiful cedar here is said to have been planted by
Elizabeth. A court leet for the manor is held on the
Tuesday before Whitsuntide, and a court baron occasionally. The parishioners are exempt from all tolls
throughout England, an immunity of which the farmers
avail themselves in sending hay to Smithfield.
The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books
at £15, and in the patronage of J. Masterman, Esq.,
with a net income of £1280; impropriators, J. Fletcher,
Esq., and others. The great tithes have been commuted
for £1771. 7. 7., and the vicarial for £848. 10.; there
are 4½ acres of glebe. The church is a spacious structure in the decorated English style, with some small
Norman remains, and a square embattled tower: the
altar-piece is finely sculptured, and the east window
embellished with a well-executed painting of the Last
Supper, and other subjects; there are several ancient
monuments, and a Norman font. In the churchyard is
a mausoleum to the late Mr. Rundell, the goldsmith, of
Ludgate-hill. A church was erected at Mill-Hill, in the
later English style, chiefly at the expense of the late
William Wilberforce, Esq.; it is dedicated to St. Paul,
and the living is in the gift of the Vicar. There are
places of worship for Independents and Wesleyans. A
schoolroom for boys was erected by John Bennet, Esq.,
on a piece of land given by Garrick, the actor, then
lord of the manor. Robert Daniels, Esq., of London,
in 1681 bequeathed £2000 for the erection and endowment of an almshouse for ten aged men and women,
with which sum 132 acres of land were purchased; and
six almshouses were erected in 1696, by Thomas Nichol,
who endowed them for aged persons. At Mill-Hill is
the Protestant Dissenters' grammar school, founded in
1807, on the site of the residence of Peter Collinson,
Esq., an eminent naturalist, at an expense of £25,000.
The poor-law union of Hendon comprises eight parishes
or places, and contains 15,444 inhabitants. At a place
called the Hyde, in the parish, a gold coin of one of the
Cæsars was found a few years since. William Rawlinson, Esq., a master in chancery, and keeper of the seals;
Dr. Edward Fowler, Bishop of Gloucester; Charles
Johnson, a dramatic author; Dr. James Parsons, anatomist and antiquary; Sir Joseph Ayloff, vice-president
of the Society of Antiquaries; and other eminent persons, have been interred here.