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SLOUGH. witL SALT HILL.
SLOUGH, which formerly consisted only of a few inns baptistery: there are several stained windows presented
on the high road from London to Bath, is now a well- by Messrs, Algernon and Charles Gilliat: the pulpit is
built and rapidly increasing town, and an important of alabaster: the church affords 700 sittings. The
station on the Great Western railway, being the junc­ register dates from the year 1894. The living is a vicar­
tion of the Windsor branch ; the station was rebuilt in age, in the gift of trustees, net yearly value ¿300, and
1882, on the widening of the line from Paddington to held since 1908 by the Rev. Thomas Kingdon Allen M.A.
Maidenhead. The town is 20 miles west from London of Queen’s College, Oxford.
by road and i8£ miles by rail,
north from Eton, 2 The Catholic church, in Ourzon street, dedicated to
north from Windsor and 6 east from Maidenhead. The Our Lady Immaculate and St. Ethelbert, and erected in
Grand Junction Canal Company, under an Act of Par­ 1909-10 at a cost of ¿8,000, is a building oi brick faced
liament passed in July, 1879, have constructed a branch vrith flint and dressed with Kentish rag and Bath stone
from Cowley to Slough. The town, Slough, originally in the Early Perpendicular style; it comprises chancel
in the parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey (with the exception with side chapels, nave of five bays with aisles and
of some houses in Stoke Poges), has under the pro-.clerestory, north porch, square baptistery and embattled
visions of Section x of the “ Local Government Act, western tower with spire, and containing one bell. There
1894” (56 and 57 Viet. c. 73) been constituted a civil are seats for 400 persons.
parish; it is in the Southern division of the county, The Congregational chapel, Church street, was erected
hundred and petty sessional division of Stoke, union of in 1835, and affords 500- sittings, and there is a Con­
Eton, county court district of Windsor, rural deanery gregational mission hall at CHALVEY, seating 100
of Burnham, archdeaconry of Buckingham and diocese persons; a Wesleyan chapel in Herschel street, built in
of Oxford. The town was controlled by a Local Board 1847, with 200 sittings; a Baptist chapel in Windsor
from July 14, 1863, until the establishment by the road, built in 1905, at a cost of about ¿4,000, with 550
“Local Government Act, 1894,” of an Urban District sittings; a Primitive Methodist chapel in William
Council; it is lighted with gas by a company and well street, which seats 150, and another at Chalvey, with
supplied with excellent water from artesian wells bored 320 sittings.
through the chalk at Datchet, the property of the The British Orphan Asylum, Mackenzie park, origin­
Slough Water Works Co. An efficient system of drain­ ally the Royal hotel, is a large and handsome building
age has been carried out at a cost, including the irriga­ opposite the station, which, with the grounds, was
tion ground, of upwards of ¿20,000; the sewage reaches purchased for the charity in 1863, the late Edward
the pumping station at Chalvey by gravitation and is Mackenzie esq. of Fawley Court, in this county, con­
there pumped through an iron main a distance of 2 tributing the sum of ¿14,000. The building has since
been considerably enlarged: a swimming bath was
miles westward.
By Local Government Board Order No. 39,611, dated added in 1881, and a separate school for young boys
October 1st, 1900, parts of the civil parishes of Langley built by Algernon Gilliat esq. of Stoke Poges, in 1884:
Marish, Upton-cum->Chalvey and Stoke Poges were added there are at present (1915) 180 orphans within itswalls;
the institution, first founded in 1827, has no endowment
to Slough civil parish and Urban District.
The church of St. Mary, in Church street, originally and depends upon the voluntary offerings of the publio
built in 1837, the foundation stone being laid by H.R.H for its maintenance.
The Leopold Institute and Public Hall, in the High
the late Duke of Cambridge K.G. was greatly enlarged
in 1876-8, from the designs of Mr. John Oldrid Scott, street, is a structure of red brick with Bath stone
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ssings, and was erected 1887 at a cost of ¿4,000,
architect, at a cost of ¿12,500; the foundation stone of
the new work was laid by H.R.H. Princess Christian, in memory of H.R.H. the late Duke of Albany K.G.
and
was opened by H.R.H. the Duchess of Albany, 6th
May, 1876; the enlarged church, consecrated September,
1878, consists of chancel, with aisles, nave, transepts, Dec. 1887. The building consists of a large public hall
and a tower containing 8 bells: a steeple was added 03 by 42 ft. seating 000 persons, with a stage and
to the tower and the bells were recast in 19x3; in the dressing rooms; there is also a smaller hall seating
same vear a new organ was provided: there are 1,030 200 persons, and retiring rooms, reading rooms, billiard
sittings, 500 being free. The old parish church of St. room, library, lavatories and the usual offices. The
Laurence, Upton, dating from the nth century, after library contains about 2,000 volumes. The halls are
beingallowedto fallalmost intoruin, was restored in *#51. let for meetings, concerts and theatrical purposes.
and enlarged by the addition of a south aisle at a cost A weekly cattle market is held in William street,
of¿2,000, raised by subscription, and consists of chancel, opposite the “ North Star,” on Tuesday.
nave of five bays, south aisle with north porch and a The Volunteer Fire Brigade, established in 1874,
central tower containing one bell: the chancel is N o t - occupies premises in Mackenzie street, erected in 1 8 9 8 ;
man, with a roof groined in stone and retaining much the brigade consists of 17 firemen and 3 officers and
of its original colouring: the piscina is of uncommon has both steam and manual engines.
There is a sum of ¿10 yearly for apprenticing, Lane’s
design: in the south aisle is an arch of walnut
wood, elaborately carved with three mouldings of dog charity of ¿20 yearly for clothing and Thomas’ of ¿ia
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food. Mrs. Beauchamp, in 1879, gave ¿200, to be
tooth pattern : the two small east windows are stained,
and there, are four memorial windows to the Bulstrode, distributed in meat, coals and bread yearly, on 24th
Bonsey, Sullivan and Perette families and tablets to December. Mrs. Mason, in 1859, bequeathed ¿766
Sir William Herschel K.H., F.R.S. d. 25 Aug. 1822, Consols, the interest to be distributed in beef and coals
whose tomb is also in the church, his wife, and the in December and January every year among deserving
Bulstrode family; at the east end of the south aisle poor.
are several brasses, including one to Agnes Bulstrode, The Eton Poor Law Institution, a structure of brick,
1472, with kneeling effigy in a shroud ; one to Edward erected in 1836 at a cost of ¿5,350, will hold 440 in­
Bulstrode esq. 1519, two wives, four sons and eight mates ; in 1906 an infirmary for 80 patients was added,
daughters, with effigies, and another with effigies to at a cost of ¿5,600.
Edward Bulstrode esq. 1599, his wife and children : the The Convalescent Home, Fair View, has been estab­
church affords 380 sittings, 194 being free. The register lished for the reception of patients who have passed
dates from the year 1539.
through the wards of the Children’s Hospital, Padding­
St. Peter's church, at CHALVEY, is a small but ton green, London; it will hold 24 children; the home
elegant building erected in 1860-1 from the designs of is free to children of the poor without letter of recom­
the late Mr. G. E. Street R.A. at a cost of ¿2,270. on a mendation.
The playing fields on Salt Hill were opened in 1907.
site given by the late Mrs. Beauchamp, of Finefield, and
On the Datchet road is an astronomical observatory.
consists of chancel, nave, north porch, and a western
bell cote containing 2 bells: there are several stained Upton Court, a fine old house near the church, and
now
the residence of Mrs. Burton, was formerly a
windows, and about 280 sittings.
The living of Upton-with-Chalvey is a rectory, net religious house attached to the convent of Merton in
yearly value ¿220, including 23 acres of glebe, with Surrey.
residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held Observatory House, on the Windsor road, was for
since 1896 by the Rev. Philip Herbert Eliot M.A. of many years the residence of Sir Friedrich Wilhelm
Oriel College, Oxford, hon. canon of Christ Church, Herschel K.H., F.R.S., F.A.S. the celebrated astronomer,
who settled here 1781, and died 25th August, 1822; here
Oxford, rural dean of Burnham and surrogate.
St. Paul’s is an ecclesiastical parish formed Dec. 12, also lived his son, Sir John Frederick William Herschel
£994* from Stoke Poges; the church, in Stoke road, bart. D.C.L., F.R.S. who was born at Slough, 7th
built in 1906 by Algernon Gilliat esq. of Stoke Poges. March, 1792, and died at Collingwood, near Hawkhurst,
°u a site given by Messrs. E. and H. Nash, at a cost of nth May, 1871, and was buried in Westminster Abbey
about ¿10,000, is an edifice in the Early English style, on the 19th May following ; here the former erected his
consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, chapel, and a western large telescope, and made most of his discoveries.
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