Guildford, or Guldeford, delightfully situated in the healthful air, on the side of a hill of chalk, close by the river Wey, and was anciently a royal Saxon town. King Alfred devised it to his nephew Ethelwold; and several of our monarchs, down to Queen Elizabeth, sometimes resided here.

Guildford is perhaps the most singular and romantic town in Surrey. This place was one of the residences of the Saxon kings, the ruins of whose castle still remain about 300 yards southward of the High Street. Of these the principal is the Keep, which stands on an artificial mount, and forms a quadrangle 47 feet by 45 1/2, and 70 feet high. The lower part, to the height of eight or nine feet, is of chalk; above which the walls are carried up with flint, ragstone, and Roman brick, disposed in the herring-bone fashion. The outworks alone of this castle included five acres.

The town is a corporation by prescription; has an elegant town-hall and council-chamber, and its privileges have been enlarged by several charters. It consists of a mayor, seven magistrates, and about twenty bailiffs, by the style of mayor and approved men of Guildford, who assemble and hold a court in their guildhall every three weeks, and are vested with power, at their general sessions, of judging criminals to death. By a grant in 1256 the county court and assizes for Surrey are to he held here at all times for ever. By another grant of King James I. the mayor and recorder, and two of the approved men, are annually justices of the peace in and for the said corporation and liberties of Stoke above Bar, and the mayor continues in his commission the year after his mayoralty expires; the town has also a town clerk, recorder, and high steward, and sends two members to parliament.

The right of election in this borough is of a very peculiar kind, and differs from all others in the kingdom, being in the freemen and freeholders paying scot and lot, and resident in the town. The mayor is the returning officer. It sent members to parliament anno 23 Edward I.

Guildford contains three parish churches; Trinity, St. Mary’s, and St. Nicholas: the last in the patronage of the Dean of Sarum, the two first have been long vested in the crown, and were consolidated and augmented in 1668 by the legislature and generous benefactions. The upper church in this town fell down in May 1740. There was preaching in it the Sunday before, and workmen were employed in taking down the bells and steeple, who had quitted the spot about a quarter of an hour before the accident happened, so that not one person received any hurt, though great numbers were spectators, it being their fair day. Three bells had been taken down, and the other three fell with the steeple, which broke the body of the church to pieces: it has since been rebuilt with brick.

In the year 1216 Lewis, the dauphin of France, who had been by the discontented barons invited to take the crown of England, possessed himself of the castle at Guildford. It was used as a common gaol for the county, from the time of Edward the First to the reign of Henry VIII., when a new county gaol was erected. In the chalky cliff, on which the castle stands, is a large cavern, with several chambers, possibly left by the diggers of chalk; but supposed by the common people to have had formerly a communication with the castle.

Here was a house of black friars, and another of crouched friars, one, a Gothic structure, yet remains; part of it affords accommodation for the judges during the assizes. Not far from the friary some extensive barracks have been erected by government.

The Grammar-school, which is a most elegant structure in the Gothic style, was founded and endowed in 1509, by Robert Beckingham, of London, grocer, and has been liberally augmented by the contributions of several, before, in, and after, the time of King Edward VI. who, by his letters patent in 1551, established it into a free grammar- school, by the name of "Schola Regia Grammaticalis Edwardi Sexti," and gave thereto 20l. per annum for ever. After whom William Hammond, Esq. and Dr. John Parkhurst, Bishop of Norwich, were very liberal.

Some very eminent persons have been educated at this school, one of whom was George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, who, in 1621, built a magnificent hospital here, and settled upon it 360l. per annum, with a joint donation of 6001. from Sir Nicholas Kemp, Knt., for the maintenance of a master, twelve aged men, and eight women, all single persons, and for the encouragement of the woollen manufactory which then flourished here. To this hospital Mr. Thomas Jackman, late an alderman of this borough, bequeathed 600l. in the year 1788, whereby the number of women was augmented to twelve. It is said the occasion of this endowment by the archbishop was to atone for his accidentally killing a game-keeper by a shot from a cross bow.

The hall wherein the county assizes had long been held being much decayed, an elegant structure, with suitable offices, was built for that purpose in the year 1789, at the expense of Lords Onslow and Grantley; adjoining to which was also built, the same year, a commodious theatre.

Here is a school for clothing and educating 25 boys, and a good market on Saturday.

A fair is also held on St. Catherine’s Hill, near Guildford, annually on the second of October, during which period it has a most engaging and picturesque appearance, from the booths, cattle, and figures that embellish the scene. On the summit of a high hill, eastward of the town, is St. Matthew’s Chapel, which is well worthy of a visit.

A subscription pack of harriers is kept by the residents of Guildford.

Guildford races are run in Whitsun-week, if it falls in June; but if it happens in May, they are put off till a fortnight has expired from the last day of that week. This precaution is to prevent them from losing their company, and to give time for sportsmen to send their horses to run for the king’s plate, &c. after the May meeting at Newmarket.

Two miles from Guildford, on the river Wey, is Stoke, where an hospital was founded in the year 1796, and endowed for six aged women, with a weekly allowance of four shillings each, by two brothers, named Parsons, who had been drapers at Guildford. One, William, died in the year 1799; the other, Henry, some time before. The hospital is a plain, substantial brick structure, healthfully situated, with a good garden: a body of laws is composed for its government.

About two miles from Stoke, on the same side the river, in the parish of Send, are the remains of Newark Priory, or Aldbury Abbey, a priory of black canons, founded in the reign of Richard I. by Raued de Calva, and Beatrix de Sandes, his wife. It was granted, at the dissolution, to Sir Anthony Brown, by whose descendant, Lord Montague, it was sold, about the year 1711, to Sir Richard Onslow. Part of the church still remains, but the other buildings have at different times been pulled down, and taken away.

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GUILDFORD, an ancient municipal borough is the capital of Surrey, the head of a union and county court district, in the South Western division of the county, hundred of Woking, rural deanery of Guildford, archdeaconry of Surrey and diocese of Winchester, and situated on the river Wey, over which there are two bridges, and is 30 ¾. miles from London by the South Western railway, 30 by way of Kingston, Cobham and Ripley, and the same distance from Westminster Bridge by Epsom and Leatherhead; the distance from Hyde Park comer by Kingston being only 27 ½ miles: the town has been incorporated by several ancient charters, and the Corporation consists of a mayor, four aldermen, twelve councillors, a recorder, town clerk and high steward; the Corporation also act as the urban sanitary authority, and the borough has a police force; here are also the head quarters of the county constabulary. Guildford once returned two members to Parliament, but under the provisions of the “Representation of the People Act, 1867,” the number was reduced to one only, and by the “Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885,” the representation was merged in that of the county. Petty sessions for the division are held in the Town hall every Saturday and for the borough every Monday and quarter sessions four times a year. The town, for the most part seated upon the declivity of a considerable hill, rising from the eastern bank of the river Wey, consists principally of one long street, beginning at the bridge on the west and extending a distance of half a mile eastward. There is a junction station here of the South Western railway from Waterloo and Woking to Portsmouth, the Leatherhead extension, and the Southampton, Alton and Farnham branches of the same railway, as well as of a branch of the South Eastern line from Reading to Red Hill and a branch of the London, Brighton and South Coast from Horsham. The town occupies portions of five principal parishes, including, eastward, the whole of Holy Trinity, with a large portion of the parish of Stoke; and westward a considerable portion of St. Nicholas; the parish between the two being that of St. Mary the Virgin; it also embraces a small portion of Shalford parish on the south and Friary parish. The town is lighted with gas by a company formed in 1825, and supplied with water from works situated in Mill lane, the property of the Corporation; the reservoirs have a capacity of 1,050,000 gallons.

Holy Trinity church, erected in the middle of the last century, stands upon the summit of the hill and is a structure of red brick in the Classic style, consisting of apsidal chancel, nave, transepts, west porch and a western tower, containing a chiming clock and 8 bells: the chancel and transepts were built in 1888 from designs by Sir A. W. Blomfield M.A., A.R.A., F.S.A, at a cost of nearly £4,000: in the apse are some striking mural paintings in the Italian style representing the “Crucifixion” with figures of Old and New Testament saints: in an old chantry chapel at the south-east, now restored and used as a vestry, two fine monumental tombs with effigies were discovered in 1869 and now stand in the west porch; one of these is to Sir Robert Parkhurst kt. lord mayor in 1635, ob. 1636, and the other to Mrs. Abbot, mother of George Abbot, archbishop of Canterbury (1610—33), who died at Guildford, 4 Aug. 1633, and whose canopied tomb, with effigy, erected in 1640, is in the church; here also is the tomb of the Right Hon. Arthur Onslow M.P. Speaker of the House of Commons 1726—61, d. 17 Feb. 1768: there are two or three interesting pieces of old communion plate, and a roll of the rectors from 1304 to the present time: there are 800 sittings, of which 550 are free. The register dates from the year 1558. The living is a rectory, with that of St. Mary annexed, average tithe rent-charge £121, joint net yearly value £271, with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1885 by the Rev. Arthur Sutton Valpy M.A. of Caius College, Cambridge, and surrogate. St. Mary’s, situated on the declivity of the hill, a little to the south of the High street, is a very ancient structure, irregularly built at various periods, but is principally Norman with Perpendicular insertions, and consists of chancel with side chapels, clerestoried nave, aisles with arcades of four arches, and a central tower containing a clock and 5 bells: the east window is a memorial to the Rev. T. Ludlam, late rector; the west window was erected in 1876 to James Stedman and there are some other stained windows: there are 450 sittings, 350 being free. The chapel of St. John the Baptist, now fitted for service, contains some ancient and curious frescoes and a fine east window erected by the late Sir H. Austin: the chapel of St. Mary forms the vestry and organ chamber: the church was restored in 1863, and in 1889 a new pulpit was erected and other improvements made. The register dates from the year 1541. The living is a rectory and has been annexed to that of Holy Trinity since 1699.

St. Nicholas, erected in 1876, stands on the western bank of the river, near the bridge, at the western entrance of the town from Portsmouth or Southampton and occupies the site of two former churches; its immediate predecessor having been erected in 1837, when some remains of 13th and 15th century work were discovered: the present structure consists of apsidal chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, north transept, used as an organ chamber, west porch and a tower built over the chancel and containing 8 bells: on the south side is a chapel connected with the manor of Loseley, containing numerous interesting monuments and brasses to the More-Molyneux family; the painted east windows were erected at a cost of £1,000, by the family of the late rector, Dr. Monsell, whose death was the result of an accident during the rebuilding of the church in 1875: the windows in the south aisle, erected in 1880, are memorials to the Rev. W. Jepp Few, a former rector; two in the west end of same aisle, erected in 1881, are to the late Rev. T. C. Hatchard B.D. bishop of Mauritius 1869—70, and for 12 years rector of this parish; the remaining windows are all either memorials or gifts: the pulpit and font, of marble and alabaster, are by Earp 1 the apse and chancel have been decorated at a cost of £500, raised by voluntary subscriptions, and in 1886 a rich and beautiful pavement of mosaic tiles and marble was laid down in the sanctuary. The register dates from the year 1561. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £584, net yearly value £421, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Winchester, and held since 1884 by the Rev. William Skipsey Sanders M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford, and surrogate. The Catholic church, dedicated to St. Joseph, in Chertsey street, is an edifice in the Early English style, and has 300 sittings. There is a Baptist chapel in Castle street, seating 200 persons; one in Commercial road with 200 sittings, and a third in Martyr road with 90; a Congregational chapel in North street, seating 800, and having Sunday schools and halls attached, and a Mission hall in Chapel street; the Primitive Methodist chapel in Stoke fields seats 330; the Unitarian chapel in Ward street, 100; the Wesleyan chapel in North street, 170; and the Meetinghouse of the Society of Friends, Ward street, 120.

The Cemetery, 4 ½ acres in extent, is situated on the side of the Old Farnham coach road, over the in” Hog’s back;” it was consecrated in 1856 and contains two mortuary chapels, a lodge, and at the south-west extremity and highest point, a lofty octagonal stone tower, erected in 1839 by C. Booker esq. and presented to the Burial Board by the late J. Stedman esq. from whom the grounds were purchased; from this tower very extensive views are obtainable over portions of the counties of Surrey, Hants, Sussex, Middlesex and Berks. The burial board consists of 27 members, appointed by the parishes of Holy Trinity, St. Mary and St. Nicholas.

The Town Hall, built in 1683, when the old market house was taken down, is on the north side of the High street, and has a clock, given by a Mr. Aylward as an equivalent for his freedom; the bell on which it strikes formerly belonged to the chapel of Chilworth or St. Martha-on-the-Hill, about 2 miles from the town, and was removed from thence early in the last century; the hall contains a number of very fine paintings, in oil, consisting of whole length portraits of James I. Charles II. James II. (the two latter by Sir Peter Lely), William III. and Queen Mary; a portrait of Speaker Onslow and one of Admiral Sir Richard Onslow receiving the Dutch flag after the victory off Camperdown, 1796, by John Russell R.A. Here are held the petty and quarter sessions and the county court 3 the meetings of the Corporation and of the Urban. Sanitary Authority are held in the Council chamber.

The County and Borough Hall, erected by subscription in 1845, in North street, has been considerably enlarged and contains two large halls, used respectively for the Crown and the Civil Courts, with suitable apartments for the bar and officers of the court. The Guildford Institute, formed in 1843, and the Working Men’s Institution, established in 1856, occupy a considerable portion of the building as reading rooms, museum and lecture rooms; the library of the former contains over 7,000 volumes and that of the latter about half that number.

The Public Baths, Castle street, were opened in 1889 by the Corporation, at a cost of nearly £3,000, from plans by Mr. A. Peak, the borough surveyor; the internal dimensions of the building are 71 feet by 47, and the height to the apex of the roof 25 feet: the baths are fitted with every modern convenience.

The Corn Market-house, situated in the High street, opposite the Town Hall and on the site of a former market house, is a structure of the Classic order, the first stone of which was laid in 1818.

The market, held on Saturday, is for wheat and other grain, as well as for meat, poultry and vegetables; there is also a market on Wednesday for the latter articles, and a cattle market throughout the year on Tuesdays.

Fairs for sheep, cattle and horses are held in North street, on May 4th and November 22nd.

The Guildford and County Club has premises in the High street, comprising a spacious and well-lighted billiard-room, a lofty dining room, opening to an extensive and well-kept garden, with gravel tennis-court and the usual reading and recreation rooms, with bedrooms. The club is non-political, and its privileges are extended to ladies, for whose use several rooms are specially set apart. His Grace the Duke of Northumberland K.G. is president.

The Guildford and District Club Limited, establish 1886, occupies premises at 58 High street; the building tains dining, smoking, reading and card rooms &c. and a suite of rooms is specially reserved for ladies; there is also a spacious billiard room, containing two tables. Mr. A. F. Asher, chairman of directors; Mr. E. Davey, vice-chairman.

The Liberal Club, Onslow street, established in 1887, comprises refreshment bar and billiard, reading, smoking an; card rooms. The Conservative Club in High street has also billiard, card, reading and meeting rooms, and about 400 members. Thore are numerous other clubs and societies, for the promotion of angling, agriculture, horticulture, fishing, cricket and football, besides friendly societies.

A Golf Club, instituted in 1886, has links on the Merrow Downs, about one mile distant from the town, granted for this purpose by the Earl of Onslow; close to the ground is a cottage for the use of members. The club is managed by a committee, W. P. French esq. being captain; there are now (1890) 200 members.

Here are three banks, several breweries, two flour mills and an iron foundry.

Guildford is the head quarters of the C and D Companies of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, the Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) regiment; it is also the place of assembly of the Home Counties Infantry Volunteer Brigade, formed under the Home Defence Mobilisation Scheme.

The Royal Surrey County Hospital, erected in 1866 as a memorial to the late Prince Consort, is situated on the rise of the hills called the “Hog’s back,” within a few hundred yards of the railway station, on a site given by the Earl of Onslow. Her Majesty the Queen, who is the patroness, hast presented to the institution a marble bust of the late Prince Consort, executed by Mr. Theed, which is placed in the entrance hall. Mr. Theed has also given a bas-relief, illustrating the parable of the Good Samaritan: the hospital is, supported by voluntary contributions: a new wing, serving as a children’s ward, waff added in 1887, and the hospital is now available for 96 patients: the number of out-patients for 1889 was 4,755 and of in-patients 749.

Adjoining the hospital are almshouses, originally founded in Curtain road, Shoreditch, London, in 1800, and endowed for 7 women by Elizabeth Hillier and enlarged for 8 women by Nathaniel Hillier, of Stoke Park, Guildford, brother of the foundress, in 1812. The charity was removed from London, enlarged for 12 inmates, and the present alms-houses built on land given by William Hillier, 4th Earl of Onslow, great-great-nephew of the foundress, in 1879.

Abbot’s Hospital was founded, in 1619 by Georga Abbot, archbishop of Canterbury (1610—33), for a master, 12 brethren, 10 sisters and a nurse; the brethren each receive 8s. per week, with coal allowance and a cloth gown annually, and the sisters 8s. per week; the buddings are of red brick: with stone dressings, at the top of High street, and the arms of the see of Canterbury and those of Archbishop Abbot are, over the gateway: there is a chapel with some stained windows: candidates for election into the hospital must be single persons over 60 years of age, preference being genres ally given to decayed tradespeople living in the town the election is vested in a body of trustees, consisting of gentlemen resident in the neighbourhood.

The Isolation Hospital for the isolation of cases of infectious disease occurring in the district of the Rural Sanitary Authority and situated at Woodbridge, at the junction of the London and South Western and South Eastern railways, was erected in 1886 at a cost of about £4,000, from designs by Mr. Henry Peak, architect, of Guildford; it consists of three blocks of buildings, two of which comprise the wards for the reception of patients, and the third the superintendent’s house and offices; it is under the management of a committee appointed by the Rural Sanitary Authority.

The Poyle charity consists of the income of an estate purchased for £1,000 and given by Henry Smith, of Wandsworth, and alderman of London, in 1620, to the town of Guildford and now vested in trustees; this property, which is very valuable, consists of the Town Mills and an iron foundry, with houses and land at Mill Mead. By a scheme of the Charity Commissioners, dated 1880, £600 of the annual income received by the estate trustees, after defraying expenses of administration, is to be expended in weekly payments of not less than 5s. nor more than 7s. 6d. to 25 pensioners, of either sex, not under 55 years of age and resident within the borough for not less than 15 years and who have not received poor law relief within 3 years anterior to their election: the residue, if any, is applied to the formation of an emergency fund, and otherwise expended in supplying clothing, fuel, tools, medical aid, or other relief to poor persons.

Benbrick’s charity of about £60 yearly, derived under the will of George Benbrick, is distributed amongst eight freemen or the widows of freemen residing in the parish of St. Nicholas. There are other smaller charities for apprentices and for distribution to the poor.

Lovejoy’s almshouses, in St. Nicholas’ parish, founded in the year 1677 by Caleb Lovejoy, of Guildford, are for four widows, each of whom receives 5s. per week and clothing every two years; this charity also provides for the education of 20 boys, 12 being in St. Nicholas’ school and 8 in that at Littleton: there are other charities in this parish amounting to about £80 yearly.

Guildford Castle occupied a considerable eminence to the south of the present High street, thus commanding the river beneath it on the west. Several acres were included in the precincts of this fortress, and the rudely-constructed but then impregnable keep still stands; the walls of this tower are about 10 feet in thickness at the bottom, and the foundations are of chalk mixed with flints; the superstructure is mostly composed of ragstone and Roman brick, disposed in the herring-bone fashion, and bound together with mortar of surprising hardness: there were neither windows nor even loop-holes on the ground floor, but in the upper storeys there was formerly one great window on either side near the middle; the rest of the windows are all of modern times; the earliest date of this castle has not been ascertained, but frequent mention is made of it in the histories of the times of John, Henry III. and Edward I., II., and III. In 1377 Sir Simon Burleigh K.G. was constable here for Richard II. after which time no notice is found of the fortress till 9 James I. when the site, with the appurtenances, containing by estimation 5a. 3r. 10p. was granted by letters patent to Francis Carter, mayor of Guildford, probably with the intention that it should become the official residence of the chief magistrate, or at any rate Corporation property; it was, however, treated as private property, and was sold about 1810 by a descendant of that family to the Duke of Norfolk; it was lately the property of Lord Grantley, from whom it was purchased in 1885 by the Corporation at a cost of £4,490 and a further sum of £2,500 was expended in laying out the estate as public pleasure grounds: towards this amount a sum of £1,000 was given by the Rt. Hon. George Cubitt P.C., M.P. and the balance was raised on loans contracted on security of the general district rates of the town: on the 28th June, 1888, the grounds were formally declared open by William Swayne esq. (mayor), and they are now dedicated to the use of the public for ever.

Guildford was the birthplace in 1560 of Robert Abbot, bishop of Salisbury (1615—8); and in 1562 of George Abbot, archbishop of Canterbury (1610—33); John Parkhurst, bishop of Norwich (1560—75), was born here in 1511; and John Russell R.A. distinguished as an artist in crayons, in 1744. Eleanor of Provence, queen of Henry III. founded here a convent of Dominicans or friars-preachers, of which no remains now exist, but that part of the town which is built on the site of the ancient monastery is still called “The Friary.”

On the west bank of the Wey, on the summit of a hill, are the ruins of the ancient chapel of St. Catharine, founded about the time of Henry III.

Richard de Wancey, rector of St. Nicholas in 1328, procured a charter for holding a fair annually on St. Matthew’s day, which still exists as a pleasure fair, and is held on St. Catherine’s hill on October 2nd.

The population of the parishes comprising the municipal borough in 1881 was:

Losely Park, 2 miles south-west from Guildford, is a handsome mansion erected in 1562 by Sir William More, on or near the site of an older house; the estate passed by marriage with the heiress of the Mores in 1682 to Sir Thomas Molyneux, whose descendants have assumed the name of More-Molyneux. The curious range of hills called “The Hog’s Back,” 500 feet high, traversed by the old coach road to Farnham, afford splendid views of the surrounding scenery, including the Crystal Palace eastwards and Aldershot Camp northwards, with Stoughton barracks and the little villages of Puttenham, Compton and Wanborough in the immediate vicinity. The population in 1881 was 1,224.

At Stoughton in this parish is Emmanuel church, an iron structure, built in 1881, with sittings for 300. At Stoughton Barracks is the depot of Regimental District No. 2, which is comprised of the 1st and 2nd Battalions the Queen’s. (West Surrey Regiment) and the 2nd Royal Surrey Militia, forming its 3rd Battalion, and which has its head quarters here: the barracks are estimated to hold 260 men and stand in inclosed grounds of seven acres. The Cemetery, of eight acres in extent, with one mortuary chapel, was purchased and laid out in 1880—2 at a cost of £4,000, and consecrated in 1883: it is under the control of a board of 9 members appointed by the Vestry. The area is, including within the borough, 2,410 acres; total rateable value, £42,109; and the population in 1881 was 6,705.

Petty Sessions are held every Saturday at the County & Borough Halls, Guildford. The places in the petty sessional division are:-Albury, Alford, Bramley, Cranleigh, Dunsford, Ewhurst, Hascomb, Saint Martha, Shalford, Shere, Wonersh, Artington, Chiddingfold, Compton, Godalming, Hambledon, Haslemere, Peper Harow, Puttenham, Thursley, Witley, Ash & Normandy, Clandon East, Clandon West, Horsley East, Horsley West, Merrow, Ockhan Pirbright, Send & Ripley, Stoke next Guildford, Waborough, Wisley, Woking & Worplesdon.

Guildford Union

Board day, alternate Saturdays, at the Workhouse at 11 a.m. Guildford poor law union comprises the following places: Albury, Artington, Bowling Green (Guildford), Compton, East Clandon, East Horsley, Friary (Guildford), Godalming, Holy Trinity (Guildford), Merrow, Ockham, Pirbright, Puttenham, St. Mary the Virgin (Guildford), St. Nicholas (Guildford), Send & Ripley, Shere, Stoke next Guildford, Wanborough, West Clandon, West Horsley, Wisley, Woking & Worplesdon; the population of the union in 1881 was 40,153; rateable value, £269,601.

Workhouse, a building of brick erected in 1837 to hold 300 inmates.

Military

2nd Regimental District.

Head quarters, Stoughton barracks.

Depot of the 1st & 2nd battalions the Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment) (2nd Foot.)

The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 3rd Battalion (2nd Royal Surrey Militia.)

The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 2nd Volunteer Battalion, C & D Companies, head quarters, Old Barracks.

Places of Worship, with times of services

Holy Trinity Church & St. Mary’s Church, Rev. Arthur Sutton Valpy M.A. rector; Rev. Charles Preedy M.A. Rev. Charles K. Watson M.A. Rev. Henry C. Gaye & Rev. William Phillip Henderson M.A. curates; 8 & 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; week days, 8 a.m. Easter to Advent; 10 a.m. Advent to Easter; Wed. 8 p.m.

St. Mary’s Church, clergy same as Holy Trinity; 8 & 11 а.m. & 3.30 & 6.30 p.m.; holy days 11 a.m.

St. Nicholas Church, Rev. William Skipsey Sanders M.A. rector; Rev. David Green M.A. Rev. John Elwes & Rev. Charles Gordon Browne M.A. curates; 8 & 11 a.m. 3.30 & 6.30p.m.; saints’ days, 11 a.m. & 5 p.m.; week days, Mon. Tue. Thur. & Sat. 10 a.m.; Wed. & Fri. 11 a.m.; Wed. 8 p.m.

St. John the Evangelist Church, Stoke, Rev. Francis Paynter M.A. rector; Rev. Charles Albert Corser Langdon B.A. curate; 11 a.m. 3 & 6.30 p.m.

St. Saviour’s (Stoke), Woodbridge road; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 7 p.m.

Christ Church, Waterdon road. Rev. William T. C. Storrs, curate; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Thur. 7 p.m.

Emmanuel Church, Stoughton, served by St. John’s clergy; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 7 p.m.

St. Joseph’s Catholic, Chertsey street, Rev. Reginald Fowler, priest; holy communion 9 a.m.; mass 11 a.m.; catechism 4 p.m.; instruction, rosary & benediction 6.30 p.m.; devotion & benediction on Fri. at 4 p.m.; holy days of obligation 10 a.m.; confessions 6 to 8 sats. & before mass on week days.

St. Saviour’s (Church Army), Mission room, George road; 3, 6.30 & 8 p.m.; week days 8 p.m.

Friends’ Meeting House, Ward street; Sun. & Wed. 11 a.m.

Baptist, Castle street, Rev. Alfred E. Realff, pastor; 11 a.m. & 6,30 p.m.; Thur. 7 p.m.

Particular Baptist, Martyr road, ministers, various; 11 a.m. & 6 p.m.; Wed. 7.15 p.m.

Open Baptist, Commercial road, Rev. John Rankine; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Wed. 7.30 p.m.

Congregational, North street. Rev. William Houghton, minister; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Mon. 7.30 p.m. & at Mission hall. Chapel street; Mon. 7.30 p.m.

Primitive Methodist, Stoke fields, ministers various; 11 a.m. & 6 p.m.

Unitarian, Ward street. Rev. Alick Herbert Dolphin; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.

Wesleyan, North street, Rev. Thomas Dodd, minister; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; Mon. 7.30 p.m.

Schools

The Royal Grammar School, founded & endowed by Robert Beckingham, grocer, of London, in 1509, was chartered as a free grammar school by Edward VI. in 1550 & re-erected by the Corporation in 1557, since which many additions have been made; in 1889—90 the buildings were thoroughly restored, under the direction of Mr. Lunn, architect, at a cost of about £3,000, raised by subscription & were re-opened by the Earl of Lovelace, lord-lieutenant of Surrey, on Wednesday, 9th July, 1890: the number educated upon the foundation is ten, but provision is now made for 150 boys; attached to the school are exhibitions, confined to the sons of residents of the town & tenable at Oxford, Cambridge, or any other place of higher education: 10 King’s scholarships of about 10 guineas a year, tenable at the school, & silver & bronze medals, presented at the re-opening in the memory of the late Rev. Henry Gordon Merriman D.D. formerly headmaster; the school is managed by a body of 15 governors, to which Richard Sparkes esq. is clerk.

Archbishop Abbot’s, North street, is a good middle class school, formed by the junction of the Bluecoat school, founded in. 1557 by Thomas Baker, clothier, of this town, with the buildings & funds left in 1619 by Archbishop Abbot; this amalgamation was effected in 1855, under a scheme framed by the Court of Chancery; 30 boys are now educated on the foundation & 60 others are admitted on certain fixed payments; the management of the school is in the hands of 12 trustees.

A School Board of 7 members was formed in 1883 for the borough of Guildford & the portion of Stoke, not in the municipal limits; Richard Sparkes, 56 Quarry street, clerk to the board.

Charlotteville Board Schools (boys, girls & infants), Sydenham road, built in 1885 for 500 children; average attendance, boys 261, girls 177, infants 130.

Southill Board School (girls & infants), enlarged in 1858 for 180 children; average attendance, 77 girls & 50 infants.

Stoughton Board Schools (boys, girls & infants), built in 1885 for 370 children; average attendance, 105 boys, 91 girls & 113 infants.

Holy Trinity & St. Mary’s National (boys, girls & infants), founded in 1814 & enlarged to admit 440 children, with a full attendance.

St. Nicholas (girls), Portsmouth road, erected in 1851 for 80 children; average attendance, 78.

St. Nicholas’ National (boys), Portsmouth road, erected in 1851, for 100 children; average attendance, 80.

St. Nicholas’ (infants), Ludlow road, built in 1886 for 140 children; average attendance, 55.

St. Nicholas’ (infants), Portsmouth road, erected in 1860 for 120 children; average attendance, 60.

Littleton (mixed), built in 1843 & supported solely by the More Molyneux family, will hold 70 children; average attendance 56.

Stoke Parochial Schools, Stoke road, erected in 1856 for 486 children; average attendance, 210 boys, 138 girls & 133 infants.

Stoke Hill National (mixed), erected in 1870 for 175 children; average attendance, 108.

St. Joseph’s Catholic, Chertsey street, built for 90 children; average attendance, 36.