A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



i civil contract. Births, however, are entered from 

 May, 1650. 



District parishes separated from All Saints' : 



ST. PAUL'S. The church of this parish was the 

 first projected of the new churches in the town, and 

 the corporation was prepared (March, 1824), to sub- 

 scribe 100 guineas ; it was, however, carried out as a 

 proprietary chapel in 1828. A conventional district 

 was arranged in April, 1860, and the parish formed 

 3 February, 1863 ; subsequently to which, on 1 8 

 October, 1863, the church was consecrated. Originally 

 a brick and stucco building in the Gothic of the 

 period, in 1862 it was completely transformed by the 

 addition of a chancel and by many great alterations ; 

 and since that date has been further improved. 



There is a vicarage house situated in Carlton 

 Crescent. 



The baptismal register dates from 1860 ; that for 

 marriages from 1 863. The benefice is in the gift of 

 the bishop. 



ST. PETER'S. This parish was formed 4 Feb- 

 ruary, 1 86 1, from which time the registers date. 

 The church of St. Peter, Commercial Road, in the 

 adapted early twelfth-century style, was finished in 

 1845. The church is well placed and has been im- 

 proved of recent years. The living is in the gift of the 

 rector of All Saints'. 



Churches which have been brought into the 

 borough-county by the addition of 1895. 



ST. NICHOLAS'S, MILLBROOK. Thh,the old 

 parish church of Millbrook, will be found noticed with 

 the present parish church under ' Millbrook.' 480 



ST. MARK'S, Archer Road. Taken from Shirley 

 and formed into a parish in 1892 ; its church erected 

 and consecrated 1891. 



St. Joseph (Roman Catho- 



NONCONFORMIST lie), Bugle Street, originally 



CHURCHES built in 1830, chancel by 



Pugin in 1 847 ; the church 



was completed in 18501. In 1888 the nave was 

 rebuilt. There are residence and schools attached. 



St. Edmund, with convent, a fine building in the 

 Avenue, erected in the style of the fourteenth century, 

 and opened 20 November, 1889. The church con- 

 sists of nave, aisles, chancel, Lady chapel, and vestries. 



Above Bar Congregational Church, formerly called 

 Above Bar Chapel, represents the oldest Nonconformist 

 body in the town. It had its origin soon after the 

 passing of the Act of Uniformity of 1 662, and was 

 due to the labours of the Reverend Nathaniel 

 Robinson, 481 a Presbyterian, formerly intruded into 

 the rectory of All Saints. The society met first 

 in private houses as occasion offered ; but after 

 the statutory relief to Protestant Dissenters a congre- 

 gation was organized, Mr. Robinson being pastor, 

 on 3 August, 1688; Mr. Robert Thorner, the founder 

 of the Thorner Almshouses, being one of the elders, 

 and Isaac Watts, the father of Dr. Watts, one of the 

 deacons. 48 * The first meeting-house was in front of 

 the site of the present chapel, and was built or adapted 

 for worship by Mr. Thorner, who eventually (3 1 May, 

 1 690) bequeathed the remainder of his lease to the 

 use of the congregation. The freehold, together with 



adjacent ground, was purchased in 1719, but the 

 chapel becoming inadequate, a more commodious 

 building was erected in 1727. This, after various 

 changes, was removed in 1819 to make way for a 

 much larger fabric in the rear of the old site, the first 

 stone of which was laid on I April, 1819, and on 

 20 April, 1820, as a finished structure was devoted to 

 God. This chapel has now been entirely recon- 

 structed at a cost of nearly 6,000 ; a memorial stone 

 having been laid on 23 April, and the re-opening ser- 

 vice held on 6 November, 1889. The building 

 stands well back from the street, and presents a hand- 

 some front of modern design. 



Albion Congregational Chapel. This congregation 

 was originally formed from Above Bar Chapel in 1 844. 

 The present spacious chapel, adorned with a classical 

 pediment, was erected in 1848, and has lately been 

 restored. 



TheAvenueCongregationalChurch,erectedin 1898. 



Kingsfield Chapel, West Marlands, formed from 

 Albion Chapel in 1853. The present building was 

 erected in 1861. 



Belvedere Independent Congregation, formed in 

 1847, moved into this chapel in 1854. 



Baptist Chapel, East Street. Notice occurs of a 

 Baptist congregation in Southampton in 1689 and 

 1703, but the history of the present church dates 

 from about 1750. After changes, both of building 

 and site, the existing chapel was opened in 1818. 



Portland Chapel. The congregation (Baptist) was 

 formed in 1840, chapel erected 18404. 



Carlton Chapel. An offshoot from Portland Chapel; 

 building erected in 1865. 



The Particular and Calvinistic Baptists have also 

 meeting places, as have also the Bible Christians. 



St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church of England. Con- 

 gregation organized in 1849, church erected in 1853. 



The Society of Friends have their meeting-house 

 in Ordnance Road, erected in 1882. They have 

 possessed their burial-place in the Avenue since 1680. 



The Jews' Synagogue is in Albion Place. 



Wesleyan Chapel, East Street. A congregation is 

 believed to have been formed in the town by John 

 Wesley in August, 1787. The present handsome 

 chapel was built in 1850. 



There is a chapel in Bevois town ; an Indepen- 

 dent Wesleyan, Kingsland ; Primitive Methodist in 

 South Front. 



Irvingite Catholic and Apostolic Church in South- 

 ampton Street ; congregation formed in 1834. 



The Church of Christ, undenominational, Above 

 Bar, built in 1880. 



Church of the Saviour (Unitarian). A congrega- 

 tion first met in St. Michael's Square in 1846. Sub- 

 sequently after various changes the present church 

 was built at the corner of Belle Vue Road, and 

 opened in March, 1860. 



Of the public buildings the fol- 



PUBLIC lowing may be noticed : 

 BUILDINGS The Audit House, High Street. 

 After Holy Rood Church had been 

 removed farther back in the early part of the four- 

 teenth century, an audit house was erected in its 



<ro See above. 



481 See under St. Lawrence and All 

 Saints. He lived to an advanced age, and 

 in 1694, two years before his death, a co- 

 pastor was elected. He was buried at 

 All Saints 27 May, 1696. 



4M The Watts Memorial Hall, erected 

 behind Above Bar Chapel, and opened in 

 1875, commemorates one of Southamp- 

 ton's worthies. Dr. Isaac Watts was 

 born on 17 July, 1674, in French Street, 

 and educated at the Grammar School 



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under the Rev. John Pinhorne, B.A., rec- 

 tor of All Saints, to whom he afterwards 

 expressed great obligation ; Adkins, Brief 

 Rtc. of Independent Denom. (1836), 101, 

 125. 



