. Wednesbury as a manufacturing and commercial centre . be had in the immediate district, but thereare excellent facilities for Swimming at the Baths in Walsall Street,where polo matches of an exciting nature are arranged from time totime. Churches and Chapels. The Parish Church ot St. Bartholomew, which crowns the hillupon the slopes of which the town has been built, has already beenmentioned. It contains an interesting picture representing the Descentfrom the Cross, by Jean Jouvenet, a French artist of the seventeenthcentury. All the windows are adorned with stained glass, by Kemp,of London,
. Wednesbury as a manufacturing and commercial centre . be had in the immediate district, but thereare excellent facilities for Swimming at the Baths in Walsall Street,where polo matches of an exciting nature are arranged from time totime. Churches and Chapels. The Parish Church ot St. Bartholomew, which crowns the hillupon the slopes of which the town has been built, has already beenmentioned. It contains an interesting picture representing the Descentfrom the Cross, by Jean Jouvenet, a French artist of the seventeenthcentury. All the windows are adorned with stained glass, by Kemp,of London, and present a most handsome appearance. St. Johns Church, in Lower High Street, is a neat edifice standingin a well-kept churchyard; St. Jamess Church, off the HolyheadRoad, stands amidst a forest of smoke-stacks, being situated in thatquarter of the town studded with forges and ironworks. On theoutskirts of the town are All Saints Church, at Moxley, St. AndrewsChurch, at Kings Hill, and St. Pauls Church in the more salubrious (Continued on p. 30.)2$.
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