The history and antiquities of the parish of Lambeth, and the archiepiscopal palace .. . and Mrs. Gibbs. There is a neat chapel of brick in Norwood, for the use ofthe Independents, erected about 1817. It has no galleries ororgan ; and is capable of holding about 600 persons. The pre-sent minister is Mr. Richards. Attached to the chapel is aschool, erected in 1824, and conducted on the British andForeign school system, in which about 250 of both sexes areeducated. A neat brick building was erected in 1824 for district schoolsfor both sexes; a considerable number of girls and boys areeducated on
The history and antiquities of the parish of Lambeth, and the archiepiscopal palace .. . and Mrs. Gibbs. There is a neat chapel of brick in Norwood, for the use ofthe Independents, erected about 1817. It has no galleries ororgan ; and is capable of holding about 600 persons. The pre-sent minister is Mr. Richards. Attached to the chapel is aschool, erected in 1824, and conducted on the British andForeign school system, in which about 250 of both sexes areeducated. A neat brick building was erected in 1824 for district schoolsfor both sexes; a considerable number of girls and boys areeducated on Dr. Bells system. It is built on ground allotedto Archbishop Tenisons estate in Lambeth. Respecting the Vicars Oak, the Magna Britannia gives thefollowing account: Here was a great wood, called Norwood, belonging to theArchbishop, wherein was anciently a tree, called the VicarsOak, where four parishes meet, as it were, in one point. It issaid to have consisted wholly of oaks, and among them was onethat bore miseltoe, which some were so hardy as to cut for the Hiato ?. of Drawn & Etched by T. Allen. FORMERLY in JLdLMMETM CMTDRCH Puihshed by ST. LUKE S DISTRICT. 435 the gain of selling it to the apothecaries of London, leavinga branch to sprout out. But they proved unfortunate afterit; for one of them fell lame, another lost an eye. At length inthe year 1678, a certain man, notwithstanding he was warnedagainst it, upon account of what others had suffered, adven-tured to cut the tree down, and he soon after broke his leg. The following curious items appear in the parish books: 1583. When we went our perambulation at Vicars Oke,&£. in Rogation week 026 1704. Paid for 1001b. of Cheese, spent at Vicars 0 8 0
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