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Mortlake in Surrey County England History and GeographyMORTLAKE, a parish in the western division of the hundred of BRIXTON, county of SURREY, 6½ miles (S.W. by W.) from London, containing, with East Sheen, 2484 inhabitants. In this parish, about the year 1616, a manufactory of tapestry was established, but it was destroyed in the time of the civil war; there is at present one for earthenware. The cultivation of asparagus and lavender was formerly extensive, but not more than thirty acres are now applied to this use. A farm, comprising eighty acres, on the Richmond side of the parish, was formerly the private property of George III. The river Thames flows on the north side of the parish. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury, being in the exempt deanery of Croydon, and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Worcester. The church, which was founded in the fourteenth, and rebuilt in the sixteenth, century, has undergone many modern repairs; the tower, which is very ancient, is of stone and flint, square and embattled: in the interior is an ancient font, ornamented with rich tracery, the gift of Archbishop Bourchier. There is a place of worship for Independents. A free school, for the education of poor children in the principles of the established church, founded in 1700, and endowed by the will of Dorothy, Lady Capel, in 1719, was enlarged by subscription in 1815, when the National system was introduced; about ninety boys and fifty girls are instructed. An ancient house in this parish, said to have belonged to Oliver Cromwell, was subsequently the residence of Edward Colston, Esq., the great benefactor to the city of Bristol, who, during his lifetime, expended more than £70,000 in the support of various charitable institutions. The only remaining vestige of Mortlake House, anciently the residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury, is the foundation of a single wall. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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