is a very populous parish near the Market Place, between Pottergate
Street and Charing Cross. The church is a large handsome edifice in the
perpendicular style, consisting of a nave, two aisles, two porches, and a
fine tower, under which is an arched rood, and on the top are four
figures at the angles. The fine decorated east window is of five lights
with flowing tracery. The north porch has a richly-groined vault, and
its outer doorway is deeply recessed. The roofs of the chapel of All
Saints at the east end of the north aisle, and of St. Mary the Virgin in
the south aisle, are boarded under and painted with angels holding books
and scrolls, with sentences from the Te Deum, the Angelical Salutation,
&c. The church has been completely restored recently at a cost of £1200.
Lady Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk, (second wife of the Duke, who was
beheaded in Elizabeth’s reign,) died at the Duke’s Palace, in this
parish, in 1563, and was interred with great pomp on the north side of
the choir, where a mural monument was erected to her memory in 1791 by
Lord John Howard of Waldon. The benefice is a discharged rectory, valued
in K. B. at £7 10s. 2d., and now at £110. It was augmented from 1714 to
1814 with £1800 of royal bounty. It is in the patronage of New College,
Oxford, to which it was granted by Henry VI. The Rev. G. F. Price is the
present incumbent.
_St. Andrew_.
The parish of St. Andrew is extensive, and populous, and improvements
have been made in some of the streets, where large premises have been
built. The church in Broad Street, to which it gives its name, is a fine
large perpendicular structure, consisting of nave, chancel, aisles,
clerestory, and tower. The latter, which has seven bells and a clock,
was rebuilt in 1478, and the nave and chancel were rebuilt in 1606. The
window at the east end is filled with stained glass. There are sedilia
for three priests in the chancel, and several old stalls with
“misereres.” The interior contains many ancient as well as modern
monuments and inscriptions. The whole of the interior has been recently
restored and renovated, and furnished with open benches instead of the
old pews. The gallery, which obscured the noble tower arch, was removed
in 1863, and the fine screen work, so long hidden, brought to light.
There is no chancel arch, but the rood stair turret still remains on the
south side; and under the east window, externally, are some good niches
and panels. A beautiful carved stone reredos was erected in 1850 by
subscription in memory of the late Rev. James Brown, B.D., who was the
esteemed incumbent of this parish from 1807 to 1856. The benefice is a
perpetual curacy valued in 1831 at £90, and augmented from 1756 to 1786
with £800 of Queen Anne’s bounty, and with a grant of £600 in 1815. The
church estate is let in long leases, for £22 16s. yearly. The
parishioners are the patrons. The Rev. A. C. Copeman, M.A., incumbent.
In this parish, on St.
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