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Council, and the incumbent of which has sole and separate jurisdiction 

 therein for all ecclesiastical purposes. Shortly afterwards Mr. Bridges 

 built the parsonage-house, now occupied by the Rev. John Williams, 

 M.A., the first incumbent of the district, and he also persuaded the 

 Ecclesiastical Commissioners to grant a small permanent endowment to 

 the living, the advowson of which is vested in himself. 



The Schools at Wallington were established about thirty-five years 

 ago, by the late Mr. John Bridges, there being then no parochial schools 

 either for Beddington or Wallington, and they were maintained by him 

 at his sole charge during his lifetime. His successor, the present owner, 

 continued this arrangement until the creation of the new district 

 chapelry, shortly after which a plan for enlarging the schoolrooms was 

 carried out through local subscriptions, and he thereupon made them 

 over by gift for the use of the district. 



At Wallington House, lying immediately to the south of my garden, 

 an underground room was discovered a few years since, called familiarly 

 the Dungeon, which, from its finished workmanship, appears to have 

 belonged to a superior building of which there is no historical 

 account. 



The old books also describe a Gothic chapel, the site of which has 

 been considered to be on the beautiful grounds of Mr. Graham, behind 

 the Brewery. On visiting this spot where the earth has been excavated, 

 I learnt that this year the ground had been deeply trenched. The men 

 found bricks, flints, and stones ; and below, extensive foundations of 

 former buildings. Tons of stone were piled together, and one piece 

 which was left unburied was evidently a stone of a window or door 

 of a first-class Gothic edifice. There were numerous other fragments 

 of tooled stones, which afford confirmatory evidence that this was 

 really the spot where the Gothic chapel was built. Manning wrote that 

 in his time the stonework of the windows was entire, that the east 

 window was stopped up, and that there was rich Gothic architecture 

 on each side of it. 



Coins of Edward I., Henry III., James I. of Scotland, \Villiam III., 

 and Queen Elizabeth have been found at Beddington. Coins have also 



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