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HEADING DIRECTORY— 1919.

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S t . S a v io u r ’s C h u r c h , W olseley street, is a building of red brick,
erected in 1887-8 at a cost of £5,891, and consisting of chancel, clerestoned
nave of three bays,' side chapel, west porch and one bell in the western
a b le ; it has 400 sittings, and is served b y the clergy of St. M a ry the
rirgin.

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A l l S a in t s ’ C h u b c h , in Downshire square, erected at a cost of about
£9,000 and enlarged in 1874 at a cost o f £3,630, is a building of Bristol
stone, with B ath stone dressings, in the Decorated style, consisting of
apsidal chancel, nave of five bays, aisles, transept, galilee porch and an
eastern turret containing one b e l l: there are 697 sittings. This church
is also attached to St. M a ry the Virgin.

C h r i s t C h u r c h is an ecclesiastical parish, formed Jan. 16, 1863; the
church, in Christ Church road, in the hamlet of W hitley, is a building
of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, north ana
south aisles, transepts, and a tower on the north-west with angle but­
tresses rising into pinnacles, from which short flying buttresses support a
graceful octagonal sp ire : the tower contains one b e ll: the windows are
filled with stained g la s s : there are some good frescoes on the east w a l l:
the electric light was installed in 1906, the sanctuary being lighted by
concealed reflectors: the church was enlarged in 1874, at a cost of
£4,326 and affords 749 sittings, all of which are free. The register
dates from the year 1863. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value
£230, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford, and held
since 1896 by the Rev. John Francis W a rre n M .A . of K eble College,
Oxford.
O r e y F r i a r s is an ecclesiastical parish, formed August 30, 1864, out of
the parishes of St. M a ry and' St. Laurence: the church, built of flint, and
situated at the corner of Cavershain road, was re-constructed in 1863 from
the ancient church of the monastery of the Grey Friars, the north transept
being new from the foundations, and the west and south walls of the south
transept, w ith the two eastern columns of the south arcade, rebuilt: it
now consists of a very wide nave of five bays, aisles and transepts, but has
at present no chancel, it having been found impossible to acquire the
ground upon which it should stand: the aisles are separated from the
nave by Pointed arches supported by clustered columns, and the west
window, a portion of the ancient structure, is one of the largest and
finest examples of reticulated traoery in existence, and in its grooves
fragments of stained glass of great thickness were met with, and a
few old tiles of- peculiar design discovered in the flooring have been
relaid; under the north pier of the chancel arch a perfect skeleton was
found without any coffin, evidently laid in the foundations when the
church was first built, and arched over w ith m asonry: the church was
reopened Dec. 5, 1863, by the late Bishop W ilberforce, of Oxford, in
the presence of the M ayor and Corporation: the restoration was
accomplished at a cost of £12,000 by the sole efforts of the late V eu.
W . W . Phelps, archdeacon of Carlisle, under the direction of the late M r.
Woodman, architect, of R eading: there are sittings for about 760 pcir-oi!-?,
400 being free. During the excavations in 1902 for the new hot water
system, many human bones wete discovered, which have carefully boon
re-interred. The register dates from the year 1864. The living is a vicar­
age, endowment £143, pew rents variable, net yearly value about £ C ,
in the gift of trustees, and held by the Rev. W illia m A . D oherty B . ’
of St. John’s College and Ridley H all, Cambridge. The bonudary ; '

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