HAVANT PARISH AND LIBERTY 



mention is made, however, of a stipendiary priest 

 maintained in Havant church for the ministration 

 of a brotherhood there, founded 'of the devotion 

 of the inhabitants,' and endowed with land and 

 money. 94 



A chapel in connexion with the church was built 

 at Langstone in 1869. There is also a Roman Catholic 

 church (St. Joseph's) in West Street, founded in 

 1874-5. 



The elementary school was built in 1895, and 

 another in connexion with St. Joseph's was opened in 

 1875, while of the two Nonconformist schools, that 

 at Redhill was opened in 1 860 and the Havant and 

 Bedhampton school in 1871. 



The Congregational Chapel trust 



CHARITIES property and charities consist of the 



chapel, schoolroom, and other buildings 



erected on a site conveyed by deed of 1 3 January, 



i89i,with the proceeds of sale of the old chapel (1791), 



Chant. Cert. (Edw. VI). 



and of a piece of land on the south side of the vestry 

 thereto ; the Lecture Hall erected on part of the same 

 site with the proceeds of sale in 1893 of the British 

 School formerly in Market Road; the Parsonage House, 

 let at l 8 a year; .252 21. 8</. Consols given by 

 Thomas Bayly Silver, two-thirds of dividends for the 

 p.istor and one-third for the chapel alms fund ; 

 203 1 3/. id. Consols given by Isaac Clements, by deed 

 of 1880, for the benefit of the pastor ; and 46 ijs. zd. 

 Consols left by will of Miss Elizabeth Moore, proved 

 1886, dividends for the poor of the chapel. The 

 sums of stock are held by the official trustees, and the 

 trusts are administered under a Scheme of the Charity 

 Commissioners, dated 11 December, 1891. 



In 1 876 William Henry Stone by deed gave 5 acres, 

 5 poles adjoining the cemetery on the east side, 

 to let in allotments for the poor, the rents to be applied 

 in prizes to the cultivators. In 1894 I acre, 3 roods, 

 8 poles were taken for the enlargement of the cemetery, 

 and a like quantity of land to the north of the allotment 

 was acquired by exchange. 



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