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tow. The church of St. James is a building of stone, Wall Letter Boxes.— Church, cleared at 10 a.m. & 7.25
p .m .; Sundays,... 9.10 a .m .; Station, 7.5 a.m. & 1.25
wholly in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel,
& 6.40 p .m .; Sundays, 7.5 a.m
aiave of three bays, south transept, south aisle, modern
south porch of wood and an em battled western tower
St. Peter’s College.
containing 6 b e lls : the south aisle and chancel are both
em b attled ; the latter has two pinnacles: against the The college of St. Peter, Radley, opened June 9, 1847, &
incorporated by Royal Charter in 1890, is situated in
south wall of the chancel is a handsome monument to
Radley Park, 5 miles from Oxford, 2 from Abingdon &
S ir W illiam Stonhouse bart. who died 5th February,
half a m ile from Radley station on the G reat Western
1631, and Elizabeth (Powell), his wife, w ith effigies of
both, carved in alabaster and coloured, smaller effigies
r a ilw a y ; the buildings consist of Radley H all itself,
form erly the seat of the Stonhouse & Bowyer families,
of their children being placed at the sid es; the Latin
inscription was written by Alexander G ill D.D. head
dormitories, school room with separate class rooms &
m aster of St. Paul’s school, London, the tutor and
private studies & a detached sanitorium ; the new
friend of the poet Milton ; a Norman font, discovered
chapel erected on the site of the old one in 1895»
a
on a neighbouring farm, was restored to the church in
cost of about ¿12,000, is an edifice of red brick chiefly
1840: a reredos was erected in 1909, in m emory of the
in the Perpendicular style, from designs by T . G
Rev. A rth ur W. Malim, priest in charge of this parish
Jackson esq. M .A., R .A ., F .S .A . & contains a hand­
1886-7, by his wife Joan: an avenue of lim es leads to
some carved wood reredos & a fine o rg a n ; there is
the west doorway in the to w er: the churchyard contains
also a gymnasium, racquet & fives court9 & cricket A
.some good altar tombs, and a large yew tree on the
football grounds, & convenient bathing arrangements
north side: the late Sir George Bowyer bart. who died
have been made at a spot on the river not far from the
7th June, 1883, is buried in a vault in the church : the
school: there are also ample facilities for boating, &
church was thoroughly restored in 1902, at a cost of
the college maintains an eight, which annually com ­
over ,£1,500, when the tim ber roofs were again exposed,
petes for the “ Ladies’ Plate ” at Henley R e g a tta ;
the transept partly rebuilt, and the interior restored,
no boy is allowed to enter the boats without having
and there are now 150 sittings.
The register dates
obtained a “ pass ” in sw im m in g: the premises are
from the year 1599, and contains several entries of the
freehold & now the property of the school: three new
burials of soldiers who served in the Parliam entary and
houses to hold 38, 30 & 32 boys respectively have
Royalist armies. The living is a donative vicarage, net
been erected & are under the charge of Ernest Bryans
yearly value £42, with residence, in the gift of the
esq. M.A. Francis J. Barm byM .A . & the Rev. Francis
Council of Radley College, and held since 1898 by the
J. Stone M .A .; the design of the school is to give
Rev. Charles Boxall Longland M.A. of W orcester College,
a thorough public school education to boys of the
Oxford, who is also vicar of Kennington. Davis’ charity
upper classes on the principles of the Church of
consists of the income arising from £100 and is for
England, & each boy is assigned to the special charge
three great co a ts; the Bristow charity is given in
of 'one of the m asters, who is styled his “ tutor,'
blankets to deserving parishioners. Adjoining Sugworth
who will observe & report on his conduct so long as
farm in this parish is the Oxford U niversity 18-hole
he remains in the school
golf course. W ick Hall, the residence of Mrs. Dockar- Scholarships.— The Sewell scholarship, value ¿ 5 5 yearly,
Drysdale, was considerably enlarged and im proved in
tenable for four years, was founded in m em ory of
1889-90, and again in 1895-6, two new wings being
the late Dr. W. Se w e ll: scholars are elected as
ad d e d ; a large and ancient brick building, formerly
vacancies occur & funds perm it: six junior scholar­
used as a granary, has been moved bodily for a distance
ships (two of £80, two of ¿60 & two of ¿ 4°) are
of 90 feet and placed on a new site so as to serve as a
offered each year & are open to boys who were under
billiard-room, and handsome entrance gates erected.
the age of 14 on the 1st of January last preceding;
The manor belonged to the abbot and convent of Abing­
these are tenable for four years; for the first two
don, and after the Dissolution was purchased by George
years from the date of election the holders are re­
Stonhouse esq. of the Board of Green Cloth in the
garded as probationers, & if satisfactory progress has
reign of E liza b eth : in 1792 the manor passed by will
been made they are re-elected: there is also the
to Captain, afterwards Adm iral Bowyer, brother of Sir
James scholarship founded by Lord Northbourne, for
William Bowyer bart. of Denham, Bucks, and created a
boys under 18 years of age, value ¿ 3 0 : two scholar­
baronet 8th Sept. 1794, during the lifetim e of his
ships have been founded in memory of the late Rev.
brother, a9 S ir George Bowyer, of Radley, Berks, for
W illiam Beadon Heathcote, formerly warden, for boys
his gallantry in the victory achieved by Lord Howe on
under 17 k 18 respectively, value ¿20 each, one being
th e 1st June, 1794, when he commanded as rear-adm iral,
given for classics, the other for m ath em atics; & theTe
and lost a l e g ; he eventually succeeded to his brother’s
is a scholarship founded by the late W illiam Gibbs
baronetcy in April, 1799, and died 6th December, 1799 >
esq. for boys under 16, value ¿ 2 0 ; each of these
his son, Sir George Bowyer, 6th bart. of Radley and
scholarships' is tenable for one year o n ly ; there are
2nd of Denham, succeeded, and the property next
now (1911) about 230 boys in the college, all boarders
descended to his son, the late Sir George Bowyer bart. The College is governed by a Council of 11 persons, &
D .C .L. on whose death (7th June, 1883) both baronetcies
the Bishop of Oxford is visitor
passed to his next brother, Sir W illiam B o vyer bart.
of Brighton, who died May, 1893, and was succeeded by Warden, Rev. Thomas Field D.D. late Fellow of M ag­
dalen College, Oxford
his nephew, the present Sir George Henry Bowyer bart.
who in 190T disposed of the manors of Radley and Svis?- Sub-Warden, Rev. John Henry K irkby M .A. ; precentor.
Rev. George Wharton M .A. ; Ernest Bryans M.A.
worth to Mrs. Dockar-Drvsdale, who is the principal
Arthur Owen Pughe M .A. Rev. Francis Joseph Stone
landowner. The soil is various and consists of gravel,
M.A. Edward Franklin Simpkinson M .A. Francis
-clay and stiff loam ; subsoil, principally gravel. The
Jomes Barmbv M.A. Rev. A rthur W illiam Davies
■crops are a succession of grain. The area of the entire
M.A. Bernard' Wood-Hill M .A ., W. W ilson-Green
parish is 3.684 acres of land and 22 of w a te r ; rateable
m !a ., A. J. S. H. Hales B .A . Rev. Roderick Harold
value, ¿15,559- The population of the civil parish in
Capper Birt M A., F. W . Goldspink B.A. & Henry A.
1901, including the occupants of St. Peter’s College, was
Lowe M.A. assistant m aste rs; Benjam in H. Price, art
592, and of the ecclesiastical, 444.
,
.
Under the provisions of the “ Divided Parishes Act,
Medical
Attendant, W alter T yrrell Brooks M .A ., M.B.
detached parts of St. Nicholas and St. Helen parishes
of Oxford
(Abingdon) were added to Radley, and by Local Govern­
ment Board Order, 18,177, dated March 25, 1885, de­ Elementary School (m ixed), built by a former vicar, for
67 children & enlarged 1892 for 86 children ; average
tached parts of the latter parish, near Pumney Farm and
attendance, 47; Miss E d ith W elch, m istress
Goosey Mead, were transferred to St. Helen (Abingdon) ;
by the same Order and the same date two detached Railway Station, W illiam Henry Parkins, station master
parts of Sonningwell, known as the Isle of Wight and
B A G L E Y WOOD, form erly extra-parochial, is 3^ miles
Kennington Village, were annexed to Radley and Egrove
north from Abingdon; it chit fly consists of an exten­
Farm from South Hinksey.
Thrupp,
miles south, and W ick, i j south-west, sive wood, which belongs to St. John’s College, Oxford,
and in which, in the 7th century, a noble hermit, named
form a liberty.
Aben, took up his abode and built a chapel, and about
Parish Clerk, William East.
670, Hean, nephew of a king of W essex, founded a
Post & T. Office.— W illiam Vernon W elford, sub-post­
monastery on the same spot, but afterwards, in 675. trans­
m aster.
Letters through Abingdon arrive at 7.40
а.m. & 1.10 p .m .; dispatched at 9.40 a m. & r.20 & lated it to Abingdon, then called Scovechesh m. and
б.55 p.m. ; Sundays, arrive 7.45, dispatched at 8.45 became its firri abbot. In May. 1900, b y Local Govern*,
a.m. ; office open on Sundays for telegraphic business, merit Board Order No. 40,662, Bagley Wood was join
8.30 to to a.m . The nearest money order office is at to Radley, and now forms part of the north war#7
that parish.
Abingdon