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Witton in Cheshire County England History and GeographyWITTON, a parochial chapelry, included in that part of the parish of GREAT BUDWORTH which is in the hundred of NORTHWICH, county palatine of CHESTER, ¼ of a mile (E.) from Northwich, containing, with the township of Twambrook, and a portion of that of Rudheath, 2405 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with £400 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £1400 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of Edward Greenall, Esq. The chapel, dedicated to St. Helen, is a noble and spacious structure, in the later English style of architecture, with an embattled tower. The free grammar school, adjoining the churcbyard, was founded in 1588, by Sir John Deane, who endowed it with a salt-work at Northwich, and certain houses and lands in other parts of the county, which property belonged to the college of St. John the Baptist, and its dissolved guild of St. Anne, in the city of Chester; to the priory of Norton, Cheshire; and to that of Basingwerk, in the county of Flint; and now produces an annual income of upwards of £400. In 1624, Thomas Farmer, A.M., who had been forty years master of the school, bequeathed a sum of money for the maintenance of certain scholars, as exhibitioners, in the University of Oxford, until taking the degree of A. M.; and, in 1715, Peter Cotton left a fund in augmentation of the master's salary; but these two bequests are not now available. None, except the kinsfolk of the founder, have claims to admission on the foundation, unless their parents reside within the chapelry; nor does the institution afford to any of the scholars instruction not immediately connected with the prosecution of their studies in Greek, Latin, and the doctrines of Christianity. Its statutes, in some respects, are similar to those of Harrow, but in the most essential points they are the same as those of St. Paul's school, London. The master is elected by the twelve feoffees appointed under the will of the founder, assisted by certain of the inhabitants, and approved by the bishop and the master of the King's school, Chester. The school-house, which was rebuilt about a century ago, is a substantial structure of brick and stone, with a porter's lodge attached, having also a commodious suite of apartments, occupied by the master, with a spacious class room over the school. The King is visitor. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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