Great Warley 1886 Kellys Directory
History
of Great Warley
Great
Warley (or West Warley, or Warley Abbess) is a parish and village, 3 ½ miles
south from Brentwood station on the main line of the great eastern railway, 6
east from Romford and 18 from London, in the Mid division of the county,
Chafford hundred, Brentwood petty sessional division and county court district,
Romford union, rural deanery of Chafford, archdeaconry of Essex and diocese of
St Albans. The
London, Tilbury and Southend Railway Company’s direct line from barking to
Pitsea passes through the parish. The church of St Mary, restored in 1860, is an
edifice of brick originally in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel and
nave and a western tower with a low spire containing 1 bell: the east and south
windows in the chanel are stained, and on the north side of the chancel is
mural monument with a demi-effigy to Gyles Fleming, gent, ob 18 Oct 1623,
and to Gyles Fleming, his son, ob 1633, the register dates from 1539 and is in
excellent preservation. There is also a curious list of “Briefs”, dating from
1709 to 1768. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £396, net
yearly value £288, with 9 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of St Johns
College, Cambridge, and held since 1866 by the Rev Hammond Roberson Bailey MA,
late fellow and tutor of that college.
Christ
Church
ecclesiastical parish was formed
27 July, 1855,
out of portions of Great Warley, Shenfield and South Weald parishes, in its
immediate neighbourhood. The church is an edifice of brick with stone facings,
in the early English style, consisting of nave, aisles and an embattled western
tower, with pinnacles, containing 1 bell: in 1877 the church was enlarged, and
in 1891 a new chancel was added, at a cost of £1,200. the register dates from
the year 1855. the living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £7, gross
yearly value £330, net £289, with glebe (£26) and residence, in the gift of the
trustees, and held since 1892 by the Rev Herbert Alfred Raynes MA of Christ
Church, Oxford; Christ Church district population, 1891, 4,927. A cemetery of 2
acres was formed in 1860 for
Christ
Church
parish; it has a small mortuary chapel and is under the control of a Burial
Board of seven members. The Catholic church, dedicated to the Holy Cross and All
Saints, was erected in 1881 at a cost of about £2,500, and is an edifice of
Kentish rag in Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and a small
western turret containing 1 bell: this church is used by the Catholic soldiers
of the Garrison. A Convent of Mercy has recently been established. The
“Crosses”, Great Warley, is now utilized as a holiday home for working girls of
the city of
London
and is supported by Evelyn Heseltine esq, of the Goldings. Here is a pumping
station, belonging to the
South Essex
Water works, the water being conveyed hither from Grays, 9 miles distant, for
the supply of the town of
Brentwood,
Hampden House is the residence of James William Cook esq, JP. Warley lace of Mrs
Willmot, and Goldings of Evelyn Heseltine esq. Lord Headley, who is lord of the
manor, and Richard Benyon esq, of
Englefield
Park,
Reading, are the principal landowners. The soil is clayey; subsoil loam, with
patches of gravel. The chief crops are wheat, beans, barley and peas. The
acreage is – arable, 1,339; pasture, 1,017; common (now inclosed), 159; and
wood, 209; rateable value, £7,291; the population in 1891 was 1,609, of which
420 are attached to the parish church; included in Christ Church population were
184 in Warley Barracks married quarters and 1,469 in Essex County Asylum.
Parish
Clerks: St Peter, George P Kemp;
Christ
Church,
William Cudby.
Post, M
O O & T O, S B, Express delivery & Annuity & Insurance Office, Warley Common –
James Hayes, sub-postmaster. Letters from
Brentwood
arrive at 6.50 & 11.20
am & 4 &
6.45 pml; dispatched at
10.10 am & 2.30 & 7.20 pm
Post, M
& T O, S B, Express delivery & Annuity & Insurance Office, Great Warley –
John Crossingham, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive by foot post from
Brentwood
at 7.30 am
& 12.15 pm;
dispatched at 9.40 am, 2 & 7 pm
& 11 am
on Sundays.
Wall
Letter Box,
Lower Warley
school, cleared at 1.30 & 6.15 pm; Sundays 11.30 am
Police
Station,
Warley Road,
George Constable, constable
Police
Station,
Warley Street,
Samuel Pickett, constable
Schools
Christ
Church National (Mixed), enlarged in 1892, at a cost of £420, raised by public
subscription, for 307 children, average attendance, 123 boys & 110 girls & 44
infants; George Morris, master; Miss Sarah Elzabeth Stacey, mistress
Lower Warley
(mixed), built in 1843, for 40 children, enlarged in 1870 for 80; average
attendance, 51; Miss mary Ellen Vivian, mistress
Infants,
Crescent Road, in connection with Christ Church National, built in 1875, for 120
children, average attendance, 118; Miss Annie Ruffell, mistress
