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division, union and county court district of Aylesbury, basin: the old communion table and rails have beenprerural deanery of Waddesden, archdeaconry of Bucking­ served : the aisles and chancel are laid with old tomb
ham and diocese of Oxford. This place formerly gave slabs: the church has undergone a complete restoration
the title of Viscount to the Wharton family, barons, under the superintendence of Mr. William White F.S.£
earls and marquesses of Wharton; Thomas ’Wharton, at a costof£1.374, and affords no sittings. The register
5th baron, having been created Viscount Winchendon, dates from the year 1606. The living is a vicarage, net
24 Dec. 1706; Philip, 6th baron and 2nd viscount, yearly value £80. in the gift of the Duke of Marlborough,
was created Duke of Wharton, 20 Jan. 17x8, but on and held since 1905 by the Bev. James Edmund Gamul
account of his adherence to the Pretender, he was Fanner M.A. of Cambridge University, who is also
attainted in 1728, and eventually died at the monastery rural dean and rector of and resides at Waddesdon. Bv
of St. Bernard, Tarragona, 31 May, 1731, when all the marriage in 1637 Jane, daughter of Sir Arthur
his honours, except the barony (which is still under Goodwyn M.P. of Upper Winchendon, with Philip, 4th
attainder) became extinct. The church of St. Mary Baron Wharton, the manor and estate was transferred
Magdalen is an ancient edifice of stone, consisting of to the Wharton family. Miss Alice de Rothschild is
chancel and nave, south porch, and a massive em­ lady of the manor and sole landowner. The soil is
battled tower of Perpendicular date with a turret on the strong loam; subsoil, limestone. The chief crops are
south side, square for three stages, then octagonal and wheat, barley, turnips, beans and mangolds; the area
rising above the parapet, with conical capping: the is 1,202 acres; rateable value, £1,492; the population
tower contains 3 bells: in the church is a brass in in 1911 was 172.
good preservation to Sir John Stodeley, a former vicar, Letters are received through Aylesbury, by cycle mes­
dated 1515: the chancel is Transition Norman, with senger at 8 a.m. Letter Box, Manor Wall, cleared
two lancet windows on the east gable, and three lancets j 7.30 a.m. & 5.15 p.m. week days & 11.30a.m. Sundays.
in each side wall: the chancel arch is pointed, but of The
est money order & telegraph office is at Wad­
rude construction: the nave is Norman, with a fine I desdonne,arabout
i£ miles distant
doorway: the north aisle dates from the 14th century, j
the windows having flowing tracery, and opens to the Elementary School (Church of England) (mixed), en­
larged in 1886 & again in 1909, for 80 childrenr.ave by two round arches, and one pointed, all cut
it is supported by Miss Alice de Rothschild; Miss
through the original wall, the piers being large and
rectangular: in the north wall is a good niche : there Sarah Isabella Dodington, mistress
is also a Decorated screen, and a font with octagonal Carrier.— G. Andrews, to Aylesbury, wed. & sat
COMMERCIAL.
Sims George Alfred, land steward to
p r iv a t e r e s id e n t s .
Andrews Geo. shopkeeper & carrier
Miss Alice de Rothschild, The
Gurney Mrs. White house
Andrews Mary Jane (Mrs.), dress ma Wilderness
Sims George Alfred, The Wilderness jBliss Ernest, farmer, Mainshill
Treadwell Samuel, farmer, Model frm
Treadwell Misses, The Limes
Cox William H. farmer, Decoy farm
W I N G (or Wenge) is a parish and large village, 3 memorials to the families of Redman, 1699-1722; and
.miles south-west from Leighton Buzzard station on the Bell, 1721-38; to Mrs. Bridget! Neale, 1677; William
main line of the London and North Western railway, Theed, gent, and Stephen Welch, vicar, 1774: in 1850
in the Mid division of the county, hundred of Cottesloe, the church was completely restored by the late Sir G.
•Linslade petty sessional division, union and county Gilbert Scott R.A. at a cost of £1,476 and again in 1893
court district of Leighton Buzzard (Beds), rural deanery at a cost of £1,700: in 1904 the chapel of St. Catherine
of Ivinghoe, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese of in the south aisle was restored in memory of the late
Oxford. In former days Wing was a place of some Mr. Charles Cotes J.P. of Burcott, and is used for daily
importance; in the year 1255 a charter was granted service: the church affords 300 sittings:in the church­
to Peter de Warren by Henry III. for a market every yard are remains of a stone cross. The register dates
Thursday and a fair for three days at Michaelmas. The tiom the year 1546, and is perfect from that date;
church of All Saints is an interesting edifice of stone there is also an ancient book of churchwardens’accounts
in mixed styles, consisting of apsidal chancel, cleres- with an inventory of church goods, 1527. The living is
toried nave, aisles, north and south porches, and an a vicarage, net yearly value £280, with 220 acres of
embattled western tower containing a clock and 6 bells: glebe and residence, in the gift of Lady Wantage, and
the church is reputed to contain Saxon work, a view held since 1890 by the Rev. Francis Henry Tatham M.A.
which has been supported by the late Sir Gilbert Scott of Trinity College, Cambridge, who is also rural dean
kt. R.A. who particularly instanced as examples the of Ivinghoe, surrogate, and rector of Grove. The Wes­
semi-circular arcades, or rather arched perforations in leyan chapel, built in 1864, will seat 350 persons; the
the walls and the construction of the chancel arch: the Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1847, has 200 sit­
most interesting feature in the church is its apsidal tings. A Hall was erected in 1905 at a cost of about
polygonal chancel, which i9 considerably elevated above £2,000, in memory of the late Mr. Charles Cotes.
the nave, and has beneath ita crypt of rude construction Dormer’s Hospital, founded in 1562 by Dame Dorothy
about eight feet in height: an arcade runs round the Pelham, for eight men and women, is endowed with
outside of the apse, considered by some authorities land, and money invested in Consols producing a total
to be also Saxon work, perhaps of the nth century; gross income of about £110 yearly. William Robinson's
the windows are much later: the nave has arcades of charity is a perpetual rent charge on land at Burcott,
massive arches dividing itfrom the aisles, and the three of £2 a year for clothing; Lady Carnarvon and
westernmost are said to be Saxon, the rest being Early William Hoare’s charity, arising from the rent of a
English : there are some good Early Decorated windows field of about six acres at Burcott, now let for £18 a
and a north doorway of that period, but the tower, year, is for clothing and blankets; William Dent’s of
“font and south porch are Perpendicular; the base of a £59 in Consols, is distributed in clothing;Robert Shep­
Norman font may be seen in the south porch :the rood herd’s,a rent-charge of £6 6s. 8d. arisingfrom landinthe
screen has been partially restored: there is another parish of Edlesborough, of which £1 a year is paid
screen in the south aisle: there are monuments to the to the vicar for catechising the children, and 10s. to
family of Fynes, from 1686 to 1758, including one to the vicar of Leighton Buzzard for a sermon on
Mrs. Margaret Fynes. said to be the work of Roubiliac, Ascension day, the surplus, if any, is distributed in
and several costly memorials to the Dormers, with others penny loaves to twenty children attending the church
ranging from 1542 to 1729 ; these include in the chan­ weekly; there is also the Fuel Allotment Charity, con­
cel a fine altar tomb of marble, with kneeling effigies sisting of about £7 a year, arising from £268 9s. id.
and Corinthian columns supporting a cornice with a £2^ per Cent. Consols and distributed annually in
shield of arms, to Sir Robert Dormer kt. ob. 1552, and coals; the Church Land Charity, of about £268 in
Elizabeth his wife, and around which, until 1850, were Consols, derived from the sale of about three acres of
two largepews with baluster screens ;opposite is another land in the parish of Mentmore, which yields over £14
altar tomb with recumbent effigies of marble, partly yearly, paid to the churchwardens, and a sum of about
gilt, under a canopy, supported by columns of Sicilian £15 arising from Pratt’s charity at Wingrave, which
jasper, with marble caps and adorned with five shields is distributed amongst the poor at the discretion of
of arms, to Sir William Dormer K.B. ob. 17 May, 1575, the trustees. Charlotte Cottage, built in 1884 and sup­
and Dorothy (Catesby), his second wife, and below ported by Leopold de Rothschild esq. is for the benefit
these are figures of children: there are also brasses to of the sick and poor of the village, and has two beds;
Harry Blacknall, 1460, and Agnes, his wife, 1489 and an open-air room for consumptives has been recently
others with effigies to Tankerville Fynes, without date ; added; Mrs. James, lady superintendent. Lady
John Theede, 1622; and Thomas Cotes, “porter at Wantage, who is lady of the manor, and the Earl of
Ascott Hall,” 1648, who is represented by a kneeling Rosebery K.G., K.T., P.C. are the principal landowners
effigy, with staff lying at his feet, and a high crowned of Wing proper. The soil is various, clay. sand, gravel
hat and key behind him; and in the church are also and loam; subsoil, clay. The crops are hay, wheat,