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Wye in Kent County England History and GeographyWYE, a parish (formerly a market town) in the hundred of WYE, lathe of SCRAY, county of KENT, 4 miles (N.E.) from Ashford, and 56 (E.S.E.) from London, containing 1508 inhabitants. The town is pleasantly situated near the right bank of the river Stour, over which is a stone bridge of five arches, and consists of two parallel and two cross streets neatly built: on the river a little above the bridge is a corn-mill. The market has been long discontinued, but there are fairs on the 29th of May and the 11th of October. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury, endowed with £600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Earl of Winchilsea. The church, which is dedicated to St. Martin and St. Gregory, and anciently belonged to Battle abbey, was rebuilt and made collegiate by John Kemp, a native of this town, first Bishop of Rochester, and afterwards Cardinal, who, in 1431, founded a college for a master and Secular canons, the revenue of which at the dissolution was valued at £93. 2. It was a beautiful cruciform structure, with a central tower surmounted by a spire, and had all the usual parts of a large collegiate church; in 1572, the spire was injured by lightning, and having been restored, fell in 1685, and destroyed a portion of the east end of the church, which was partly rebuilt in 1701, but on a much smaller scale. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The free grammar school was founded by grant from Charles I. of the rectories of Boughton-Aluph, Beuset, and Newington, and other premises, to Robert Maxwell and his heirs, for affording classical instruction to the poor children of parishioners; for which £16 a year is paid to a master, but there are no children on the foundation. An exhibition, originally of £10 per annum, to Lincoln College, Oxford, was attached to this school by Sir George Wheeler, in 1723, which was augmented to £20, in 1759, by his son, the Rev. Granville Wheeler: in default of candidates from this establishment, it is open to any other grammar school in the kingdom. A free school for children of both sexes was founded and endowed, in 1708, by Lady Joanna Thornhill; the present annual income is £193. 10. 6., for which fifty boys and sixty-one girls are now instructed, the school being open to all children of the poor, who are nominated by the trustees, consisting of the ministers of Wye and the four adjoining parishes, and the heirs of three other persons: the salary of the master is £40, and that of the mistress is £25, per annum. In 1723, Sir George Wheeler devised the ancient collegiate buildings and lands for the respective residences and schools of the master of the grammar school and the master and mistress under Lady Thornhill's charity: these establishments, therefore, now occupy the college green, the former the south, and the latter the north, side. An almshouse for the residence of six poor persons was founded by Sir Thomas Kempe. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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