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Christ-Church in Surrey County England History and GeographyCHRIST-CHURCH, a parish partly in the eastern division of the hundred of BRIXTON, but chiefly within the borough of SOUTHWARK, county of SURREY, containing 13,339 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Surrey, and diocese of Winchester. The Trustees of Mr. Marshall's charities were patrons in 1809. This parish, situated on the south side of Blackfriars' bridge, was anciently termed the liberty of Paris Garden, and formed a part of the parish of St. Saviour until 1706, when it was made a distinct parish by act of parliament. It constituted a portion of the borough of Southwark under a charter of Edward VI., though the inhabitants cannot vote for its parliamentary members, in consequence of having allowed the privilege to fall into disuse. The parish is within the jurisdiction of the court of requests for the town and borough of Southwark, established by an act passed in the 22nd of George II., for the recovery of debts under 40s. In 1713, a school for boys was established in Blackfriars road; and in 1720, a school for girls was added to it, both by subscription; the school-room belonging to the former was enlarged, and that belonging to the latter rebuilt in 1819, when the Lancasterian system was introduced: they have a permanent endowment of about £180 per annum, and the annual amount of subscriptions &c., is upwards of £300 more: a few children of each sex are clothed. Almshouses for forty-four poor persons are endowed with nearly £300 per annum, arising from property given by Edward Edwardes, in 1717. Hopton's almshouses, founded by Charles Hopton, in 1730, are endowed with about £500 per annum, affording an asylum to twenty-six poor men. There are various charities for general purposes, all of minor amount except Marshall's charity, founded by John Marshall in 1627, and producing nearly £900 per annum, Hammerton's, producing £230 per annum; and Boyse's, producing £160 per annum. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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