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Hornchurch is a village and parish with
a station on the new branch of the London, Tilbury and Southend railway,
pleasantly situated on the road from Romford to Upminster and within the liberty
of Havering ate Bower, in the southern division of the county, Havering ate
Bower petty sessional division, Romford union and county court district, 2 miles
south east from Romford railway station and two south west
from Harold Wood railway station, which
is in the parish, and 14 from London, bounded on the east and west by the rivers
Ingrebourne and Rom and lit with gas supplied from Romford. The church of St
Andrew is an ancient building of stone in the Early Decorated and Perpendicular
styles, consisting of chancel, nave, with clerestory, aisles, north porch and a
large embattled western tower with a turret and spire, the whole rising to a
height of 170 feet and containing a clock and six bells, all of which were
recast in 1778: the chancel was restored in 1869, and a stained east window
inserted to Thomas Mashiter esq; the
whole church was restored in 1871 at a cost of about £2,000: there are three
other stained windows in the south aisle, a very fine reredos of carved stone,
piscine and sedilia and on the west wall a curiously carved marble tablet to
Thomas Witherings esq, chief postmaster of Great Britain, who died 1651. The
register, which is in good condition, dates from the year 1576. The living is
nominally a vicarage, but is rather in the nature of a chaplaincy, exempt from
ecclesiastical jurisdiction, gross yearly value £740, with residence, in the
gift of the warden and fellows of New College, Oxford, who grant the vicar what
is termed “a lease”, and held since 1878,
by the Rev Robert Johnson MA, of St John’s College, Cambridge. The Baptist
chapel, opened
Harold Wood is a village, 3 miles north and has a station on the Great Eastern railway. Here is an iron church, built in 1871 and seating 300 persons. There is also a factory making fireworks.
Hardley Green is a hamlet 1 ½ miles north.
Havering Well is a hamlet 1 mile west and ½ a mile south of Romford
Southend is a hamlet 3 miles south, extending to the banks of the River Thames and adjoining Rainham station: here are chemical and cement works.
Sexton, Joseph Lazell
Post, Money Order & Telegraph Office &
Savings Bank – Thomas Henry Wilson, postmaster. Letters arrive from Romford at
5.30 and
Post & Money Order Office & Savings
Bank, Harold Wood – Henry J Gould, receiver. Letters arrive via Romford at 9 &
Southend letters are received through Rainham
Schools:-
National, Hornchurch (mixed), built in 1853 for 400 children, with an average attendance of 300; Fredk Jenvey, master; Mrs Emily Jenvey, mistress; Miss Charlotte Baker, infants mistress
National (Harold Wood), built at Christmas, 1885, at a cost of £560, for 80 children, average attendance, 30; Mrs Mary Alice Levern, mistress
Railway Stations :-
Harold Wood, Fredk Flegg, station master
Hornchurch, Charles Boyle, station master
Carrier to
Carrier to Romford – William George Patience, on sats