Paddington: Past and Present

THOSE people who have been the most completely governed by ecclesiastics, are proverbial for having made the slowest progress in all the elements of knowledge which concern man;...

ANCIENT CHURCHES—ACT OF PARLIAMENT CHURCHES AND CHAPELS—CHURCH-YARDS—CHURCH-RATES—PARSONAGE-HOUSES—ECCLESIASTICAL DIVISIONS—PLACES OF WORSHIP BUILT AND SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY CO...

THE history of the lands which have been claimed by the Bishop of London, and the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, as their portion of the spoils of the Convent can be completel...

THE policy which has raised the manor and rectory of Paddington to its present value {72}—three-quarters of a million sterling; which has effectually transferred, (so far as pri...

So many fabulous stories are told us relative to the christian church, that we cannot be surprised to find the history of its territorial possessions, in any particular spot, mi...

BLACKSTONE defines a parish to be “that circuit of ground which is committed to the charge of one parson, or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein.” In ordinary...

A SUNDAY SCHOOL, in connection with the Church, was established in Paddington, during the last century; but it was not till the beginning of this, that any public means of instr...

“A PARSON, _persona ecclesiae_,” says Blackstone, “is one that hath full possession of all the rights of a parochial church. He is called parson, _persona_, because by his perso...

THE question “What has become of the Charity Lands?” which has been so often asked in other parishes, has been occasionally put to those in authority in this; but so far as I ca...

IF we accept the definition of the word manor given by the learned Judge Blackstone, in his Commentaries on the Laws of England, {19} or look upon a manor to be “the subinfeudat...

26th of Geo. II. an Act for enlarging the Church-yard; Sir John Frederick’s Will; 3rd of Geo. III, an Act for confirming Sale of Land to St. George’s Parish; 35th of Geo. III, c...

AND THE PEOPLE.—Division of the ancient Manor of Kensington; Grant of St. Mary’s Lands to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster; the Manor of Knightsbridge and Westbourn; the Mano...

added to their numbers; Population in 1524, and the system of Taxation; Subsidy Rolls; Public Houses; Gentlemen’s Seats; Population in 1685; Notice of the Dead; Laws; Sturges Bo...

Forged Charters of Edgar and Dunstan; the Dom Boc or Domesday Book; the Middlesex Forest and its Rivers—the Fleete, the Tybourn, and the Brent; Tybourn and Westbourn the same st...

Parsonage, Rectory, or Vicarage; Paddington a Chapel of Ease to St. Margaret’s, Westminster; Appropriation and Impropriation; Survey of the Living; the Vicarage converted into t...

the House of Commons, 1786–88; Report of the Commissioners for Enquiry concerning Charities, 1826; Bread and Cheese Lands; Johnson’s Charity; Dr. Compton’s Charity; Margaret Rob...

PADDINGTON.—Definition of the word Manor; neither Westbourn nor Paddington mentioned in Domesday; Probably included in the Manor of Tybourn; Quo Warranto respecting them; Walter...

Church; St. Katherine’s and St. James’s; Hogarth’s Marriage; Chaterlain’s Views; St. Mary’s, built by Act of Parliament; the Church-yard; Parsonage Houses; Bayswater Chapel; St....

Titchbourn Street, and All Saints; Westbourn Schools; Dissenting Schools; Paddington Wharfs Ragged Schools; Charitable Institutions; Orphan Asylum; Bayswater Episcopal Female Or...