BARNES
Berne (xi, xiii and xiv cent. and 1629).
The parish of Barnes contains 1,027 acres. It
lies on the Thames, inside the curve which the river
makes, first north and then south, opposite Hammersmith, and is bounded by it on three sides. The
towing-path round the bend is in Barnes parish. The
Beverley Brook crosses the parish from west to east
and joins the Thames. There are two bridges over
the river, Hammersmith Suspension Bridge, built in
1827 and rebuilt in 1886, which connects it with
that town, and Barnes Bridge, which carries the loop
line of the London and South Western Railway,
opened in 1849, over the Thames. This loop line
runs concurrently with the Windsor line as far as
Barnes station, after leaving which they divide. The
northern part of the parish in the bend of the
Thames is low and liable to floods. There is some
rich meadow land near the river; the soil of the
higher parts is gravel. The Metropolitan Water
Board has large reservoirs in Barnes.
The village is situated on the west of the parish
near the river. The High Street runs at right
angles to the river-bank, and leads to Barnes Green
on the east. Church Road leads to the church, a
little to the north-east of the village, and the road is
continued to Barn Elms. At the other end of High
Street, running parallel with the river, is Barnes
Terrace, where is a row of old houses. Further to
the west this joins Mortlake High Street. Here in
the early part of the 18th century many foreigners
assembled, especially French refugees. (fn. 1)
Barn Elms is the chief house in the district (see
manor), but its park, which was the scene of many
duels, (fn. 2) is now a golf course. Castelnau was once
in the possession of a French refugee family of that
name, (fn. 3) and now the name is given to a road about
a mile long which runs from Hammersmith Bridge
to the Ranelagh Grounds, where it branches into
two, one branch continuing across the common to
Roehampton, the other turning west and running
past the church to the south, and the common and
pond on the north, down to the river. Here it
meets a road which follows the bend of the river to
Hammersmith Bridge. From the junction the roads
continue south to Mortlake and Kew. In Castelnau
there are early 19th-century houses standing back
from the road behind well-wooded gardens. An
interesting old house, called Milbourne House, stands
on the Green. It seems probable that it took its
name from the family of Melbourne or Milbourne
who held the manor of Esher Watevile in Emleybridge Hundred. In the church there is a brass
to the memory of William Milbourne dated 1415. (fn. 4)
Special interest attaches to this house, for it was for
some time the residence of Henry Fielding. (fn. 5) It
is now occupied by Mrs. Gray. Another house
which used to stand near Barn Elms was occupied
at the end of the 17th century by Jacob Tonson the
bookseller. Here were held the meetings of the
celebrated Kitcat Club, for whose use Tonson
added a gallery to his house. (fn. 6) This was hung with
portraits painted by Kneller of all the members of
the club, and in 1814 this house was still standing,
the vacant places where the pictures had hung were
easily discernible, and the names of the originals,
Addison and the rest, remained underneath. It was
then, however, in a state of ruin, and soon after was
pulled down, (fn. 7) the pictures having been removed long
before to Bayfordbury in Hertfordshire. (fn. 8) Adjoining
the churchyard on the west are the well-wooded
rectory gardens. The rectory is an 18th-century
three-story brick building of no great interest, except
that it contains a fine oak staircase of the period,
with carved spandrel steps and twisted balusters.
To the east of the church stands the 'Homestead,'
an 18th-century two-story brick house, having an
enriched wooden cornice, a tile roof and red brick
dressings to the windows. The entrance doorway is
of two Doric pilasters carrying an entablature. The
house stands well back from the roadway behind a
row of beech trees, and is entered through a gateway
standing between two brick piers surmounted by vases.
Lower down the road towards the river, standing
opposite each other at the corners of Grange Road,
are Frog Hall and The Grange, two brick Georgian
houses. They are both two-story buildings, and
have dormers in their roofs and red brick dressings
to the windows. The latter has a bracketed wooden
cornice, and has been much enlarged in recent times.
The Sun Inn, opposite the pond, is a building of
about the same date, as are many of the houses in the
High Street and the terrace overlooking the river. The
'Bull's Head' and the 'White Hart' are old riverside
inns. Near the former was established the Lyric
Club, but the site is now occupied by small houses.
Of modern houses Mill Hill is the residence of
Mrs. Eykyn; the Manor House was that of the
late Colonel Barrington-Foote.
Barnes Common lies to the south of the parish,
and contains about 126 acres. (fn. 9) Formerly the townships of Barnes and Putney both used this common,
but in 1589 they quarrelled over it, and the men of
Barnes refused to allow the men of Putney to use the
common and impounded their cattle which they
found on it. (fn. 10) An attempt was made in 1802 to
hold a fair on the common in place of the one that
had been prohibited at Mortlake, but the magistrates
would not allow it. (fn. 11) The common used to be very
swampy, and it was then a favourite haunt of
naturalists. But about thirty years ago it was
drained, and its condition was greatly improved.
Since that time it has been planted with trees, and it
is naturally very fertile in furze, broom, briar and
heath. It was preserved for public use under the
Metropolitan Commons Acts of 1866 and 1869. (fn. 12)
The urban district council of Barnes now has the
management of it, but the rights of the lord of the
manor are reserved to the Dean and canons of
St. Paul's. (fn. 13) Market gardening is carried on in the
fields by the river, but modern houses are encroaching
in this direction every year. During the last century
the population increased very rapidly, as Barnes
became a residential suburb of London. (fn. 14) The new
ecclesiastical parish of Holy Trinity was formed in
1881. (fn. 15) The church of St. Michael and All Angels,
consecrated in 1892, (fn. 16) is a chapel of ease to the
parish church. A Baptist chapel was built in 1868.
There is a Wesleyan chapel on Barnes Green, and
there are two mission halls in the parish. The
cemetery with a chapel on the common was opened
in 1855.
On Barnes Green is a school for girls and infants,
built in 1850. Westfield Boys' School was built in
1870 and enlarged in 1878 and 1892. Westfield
Girls' School was built in 1880 for girls and infants,
and an infants' school was built in 1904. Castelnau
Girls and Infants' School was built in 1883 and
enlarged in 1891.
MANORS
The manor of BARNES appears to
have originally formed part of the manor
of Mortlake, which belonged to the
Archbishop of Canterbury. It was granted to the
Dean and canons of St. Paul's at some date before
1086, and at the time of the Survey was held
of the archbishop, and paid geld with his manor
of Mortlake. (fn. 17) In 1181 it paid geld with the archbishop's men of Wimbledon, (fn. 18) and it was to the
archbishop as lord of the manor of Wimbledon that
the Dean and canons of St. Paul's owed service in
1408–9. (fn. 19)
The cathedral of St. Paul's apportioned certain
of its lands for the support of each canon. The
remaining lands (called the communa) were placed out
at farm in the hands of firmarii, who exercised the
rights of lord of the manor (fn. 20) and paid a certain sum
of money to the cathedral, and furnished a fixed
quantity of supplies, afterwards commuted for money
instead (or possibly this was paid as well as supplies).
This practice is probably as old as the need of fixed
supplies for a large monastic or capitular body, but
one of the earliest recorded instances of a manor
being let out to farm in this way occurs in 1108,
when the manor of Barnes was leased to William
and Walbertus, canons of St. Paul's, for their lives, in
return for a yearly payment of £8 and a sextar of
wine. (fn. 21) The survey made by the Dean and Chapter
of St. Paul's of their manors in 1222 gives an account
of Barnes and the services due from it at this
date. It was assessed at 4 hides, only half the assessment of 1086. It was bound to plough 12 acres
of the archbishop's land, and of this the villeinage
had to plough 8 acres, and the canons or their
farmers 4 acres, with food at the archbishop's court.
It also had to supply eighteen men and the reeve
of Barnes for the great brewing of the archbishop,
with food twice at the archbishop's court. The villeinage
had to pay 32d. for the lands
of Putleworth, Aldeland and
Hetta to the archbishop.
Two men of the villeinage
and the reeve were liable to
have to attend at the archbishop's halmote, and the
villeinage had to send one
man to attend the shire courts,
with the reeve, together with
one man of the archbishop.
On the demesne, which consisted of 300 acres of arable
land, 30 acres of meadow
with a little meadow called Cotmannemade and 28
acres of pasture, there were two plough-teams with
eight oxen and two horses for each plough, the
ploughs of the villeins having similar teams. There
had been a mill, but it was not working owing to
failure of water. (fn. 22)
Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's. Gules two crossed swords of St. Paul with the letter D in the chief all or.
In 1256 Barnes was leased to Robert de Barton,
precentor, for life, for an annual payment of three
rents in bread and beer, customary dues to the
bakehouse and brewhouse and 40s. to the chapter. (fn. 23)
Richard le Fraunceys and Pagan his wife appear to
have held the manor in 1273–4, in which year they
conveyed all their interest in it to the dean and
chapter, (fn. 24) but ten years later the king issued an
order that it should not be leased to any but members
of the church of St. Paul. (fn. 25) The dean and chapter
received a grant of free warren in Barnes in 1316. (fn. 26)
In the early years of the reign of Edward II the manor
was held by Thomas Cobham, canon of St. Paul's. (fn. 27)
He resigned his canonry when he was made Bishop
of Worcester by papal provision in 1317, and the
pope granted the manor of Barnes to Vitalis, Cardinal
of St. Martin's in Montibus, who was at that date
resident in London. (fn. 28) The cardinal sent his proctor
to take possession, but he was refused admission, and
the dean and chapter obtained an order from the
king forbidding the papal grant to be published. (fn. 29)
The king also forbade the Bishop of Worcester to
transfer the manor to the cardinal, asserting that he
would uphold the gifts of his progenitors. (fn. 30) The
pope endeavoured to bring pressure to bear on the
dean and chapter, and threatened them with excommunication, (fn. 31) but finally in 1318 a compromise was
made by the intervention of two of the cardinals.
By this compromise the chapter retained the manor,
but paid to the cardinal five hundred florins. It was
expressly stated, however, that this sum was not paid
on account of the manors, but 'for their reverence
to the Holy See and in order to secure the good-will
of the Cardinal.' (fn. 32) In the beginning of the 15th century
a dispute arose between the dean and canons and
the overlord, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who
claimed from them the service of acting as reeve in
his manor of Wimbledon. They were, however,
excused from this in 1408 on condition of giving to
the archbishop every year a sparrow-hawk or 2s. and
a rent of 40s. (fn. 33)
The manor was leased in 1504 to Sir Henry
Wyatt for ninety-six years at an annual rent of
£16 6s. 8d. (fn. 34) He sold his interest in the lease to
Sir Andrew Judde, (fn. 35) who held the manor in 1555. (fn. 36)
On his death it passed to his widow Mary, who
had married James Altham, (fn. 37) but the children of
Sir Andrew disputed her possession, (fn. 38) and it finally
came into the possession of Thomas Smyth, the
husband of Sir Andrew's daughter Alice. (fn. 39) Sir Francis
Walsingham, secretary of state, bought the remainder
of Sir Henry Wyatt's lease in 1579, (fn. 40) and in this
year he also obtained a grant from Queen Elizabeth
of a lease of the manor which she had bought dated
to begin in 1600, when Sir Henry Wyatt's lease was
due to expire. (fn. 41) During the tenancy of Walsingham
Barn Elms became connected with the great affairs
of state. Councils were held there and policies
formed. (fn. 42) The queen with her whole court was
entertained in 1585, 1588 and 1589, (fn. 43) and there
also came Sir Philip Sidney, who was married to
Frances, the secretary's only daughter. (fn. 44) In 1590
Sir Francis Walsingham died, (fn. 45) and Barn Elms was
held by his widow. (fn. 46) His daughter, who had become
a widow in 1586, (fn. 47) was secretly married to the Earl
of Essex about this date. (fn. 48) This excited the queen's
anger, and Essex agreed that his wife should live
'very retired at her mother's house.' (fn. 49) In consequence Barn Elms became also the occasional residence of Essex himself till his death in 1601. (fn. 50)
In 1622 Barn Elms was held by Sir John Kennedy,
kt., (fn. 51) who fell heavily into debt. (fn. 52) A short time
before his death in 1622–3 (fn. 53) the estate was sequestrated, (fn. 54) and finally sold for the benefit of his
creditors. (fn. 55) In 1628 Edward Ferrers, one of the
creditors, (fn. 56) and Catherine his wife held the lease, (fn. 57)
apparently in conjunction with Richard Gosson,
another of the creditors, who held the manorial courts
in 1633. (fn. 58) In that year the remainder of the lease
was sold by Edward and William Ferrers and William
Geere to Henry Hylton Baron of Hylton. (fn. 59)
In 1639 Barn Elms was leased to the Cartwrights. (fn. 60)
During the Commonwealth the lands of St. Paul's
Cathedral were confiscated, and the capital messuage of
Barn Elms was sold in 1649 by the commissioners for the
sale of church lands to Anthony Ward and William
Hitchman. (fn. 61) The manor of Barnes was sold separately
in the same year and in the same manner to Richard
Shute. (fn. 62) The dean and chapter regained possession
in 1660 on the restoration of the king, and they
renewed the lease of Barn Elms to John Cartwright. (fn. 63)
About this time Abraham Cowley resided at Barnes
and possibly had a sub-lease of Barn Elms from Cartwright. (fn. 64) The latter's descendants held the lease into
the 18th century. In 1750 the lease was conveyed
to Sir Richard Hoare. (fn. 65) He died in 1754, (fn. 66) and his
estate descended to his son Richard Hoare, who
was created a baronet in 1786 and died in 1787. (fn. 67)
Barn Elms appears to have remained in the possession
of this family till 1827. (fn. 68) In that year a suspension
bridge was erected from Barnes to Hammersmith, and
the company that undertook the work bought the
estate of Barn Elms and made a road across it. (fn. 69) The
house itself they sold to Sir Thomas Colebrook, bart. (fn. 70)
It afterwards came into the possession of Vice-Chancellor Shadwell, who died there in 1850. (fn. 71) In 1876
Henry David Pochin resided there. (fn. 72) The manor
has remained in the hands of the Dean and Chapter of
St. Paul's, now replaced by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. In 1899 there were twenty-five tenants
of the manor and four known claimants to pasture. (fn. 73)
Barn Elms is now used as the club-house of the
Ranelagh Club. It stands in the middle of the
grounds, stretching east and west from Barnes to
Putney and bounded on the south by Barnes
Common. They are well laid out and beautifully
wooded, and contain besides four polo fields a
golf course, tennis and croquet lawns, shrubberies
and flower gardens, while to the north-west of the
club-house is a fine artificial sheet of water fed
from the river and the Beverley Brook, the latter
running through the middle of the grounds. By the
side of the lake is an open-air theatre, at the back of
which is an old domed brick ice-house covered with
trees and shrubs and now utilized as dressing-rooms
for the performers. In the grounds are several old
summer-houses, while the garden ornaments include
many old leaden statuettes and vases mounted on
pedestals. To the south-west of the building is a
range of Ionic columns, on the top of which are antique
busts. The club-house faces east and west and is an
18th-century two-story brick building, having a
centre block (covered by a hipped roof of green slates),
on either side of which are lower wings. Running
round the house at the wall-head level is a wooden
cornice surmounted by a balustrade of the same
material. The sash windows are divided by astragals.
Modern additions have been made at both ends of
the building; a large dining room on the north projects to the west, while in an eastward extension
are dressing-rooms and large palm-houses. The
principal front overlooks the golf course on the east,
while at the back is a large terrace. In the centre of
the east front is a slightly projecting bay having a
triangular pediment, in which is a shield quarterly:
(1) an eagle; (2 and 3) three scallops on a cheveron,
in chief a lion passant; (4) a double-headed eagle,
impaling checky a fesse, the arms of Sir Richard
Hoare the younger. Above the shield is a crest of
an eagle's head and from the corners are festoons of
laurels. There is a central entrance porch of the
Doric order, with a window on each side. On either
side of the central bay are three windows, while the
side wings are lighted by windows having semicircular
heads. The west front has a central entrance with a
window at each side, while at either end of the
central block is a three-sided bay window carried up
the two stories. The interior of the house has been
much altered. In a large drawing-room, which
occupies the whole of the south-west, is an original
coved plaster ceiling. Round the walls of the staircase and club-room are many prints of the Kitcat
Club portraits, and the club possesses a few of the
originals — Jacob Tonson, the founder, by Hogarth,
Sir John Coke and Sir Christopher Wren, both
by Kneller, while there are also portraits of Sir J.
Kennedy and Oliver Cromwell, the latter by Lely.
To the north of the house is a building, now
enlarged and used as the golf-house, part of which
is supposed to have been used by the members of the
Kitcat Club, but this is so much restored internally
and overgrown with creepers on the outside that it is
impossible to confirm this tradition by architectural
evidence. Adjoining the golf-house on the north are
the stables.
CHURCHES
The parish church of ST. MARY,
Barnes, dates from early in the 13th
century, but of this building very little
remains and it has been so much restored and altered
as to be almost unrecognizable. The church at
present consists of nave and chancel with north and
south aisles, north vestry and south-west tower. In
the 13th century the church consisted of an unaisled
nave and chancel and in the later part of the 16th century a western tower was added. The next addition
appears to have been made late in the 18th century,
when a nave and chancel were built to the north of
the existing one, the old nave serving as a south aisle,
while in 1852 the church was restored and enlarged,
and in 1907 the west wall of the nave was rebuilt, a
north aisle and vestry erected and the whole church
renovated. The east window of the south aisle—the
east end of which is now used as a chapel, being formerly the chancel to the original church—is of three
lancets with a vesica over, and, although much restored,
may be the original. A pointed arch springs from semioctagonal responds having moulded capitals, between
the first pier of the nave arcade and the south wall of
the aisle. The windows on the south are all much
later, the eastern and western ones both being of two
trefoiled lights with a multifoil under a pointed head,
probably inserted when the present nave was built.
The second window from the east is of three uncusped
lights under a depressed two-centred segmental
head of 16th-century character, while the next is a
modern one of three trefoiled lights under a similar
head. Between this window and the westernmost is
a pointed doorway opening into a modern porch.
The walls of this aisle on the outside are covered with
rough-cast, the window dressings being of stone. An
arcade on the north, of octagonal piers carrying
wooden beams over, divides this aisle into five bays,
while at the west end is a tower, used on the ground floor
as a baptistery and entered from the south aisle through
a pointed archway of two orders, the inner one being
stopped by attached columns having moulded capitals
and bases of rather debased section, the outer one
being continuous. A modern oak screen divides the
tower from the aisle on the east, while on the
west is an entrance doorway, the inner head of which
is three-centred, the outer one being square. The
tower is in two stages with a parapet, and is built of
brick with cement quoins and dressings. The diagonal
angle buttresses are in three stages and stop at
the belfry level, but the octagonal stair turret at the
south-east angle, which is entered from the inside, is
carried up above the parapet and surmounted by a
wrought-iron weather-vane. Above the entrance
doorway is a three-light stone window, and the belfry
is lighted by four windows, the inner heads of which
are three-centred, the outer ones square and filled
in on the outside with wooden louvres. Against the
east wall of the tower may be seen the marks of an
earlier and steeper roof. The chancel projects beyond
the south chapel and is lighted on the east by a
window of three cinquefoiled lights and on the south
by a smaller modern one. A doorway on the north
enters the north vestry; the quire projects into the
nave. The arches of the north arcade spring from
octagonal piers and the nave is entered from a central
west doorway. The west wall of the nave and the
north aisle and vestry are built in 14th-century
style in Kentish rag with stone dressings. The organ
is in a gallery over the east bay of the north aisle,
while there is also a gallery over the west end of the
nave and north aisle approached by a circular stair
turret at the north-west angle. The north aisle is
entered by a west doorway. All the internal walls
are plastered over. Both the aisles and the nave have
separate pitched tile roofs, there being no clearstory.
There are three skylights in the nave roof and one in
the roof of the south aisle.
On the south wall of the south aisle is a brass plate
with the following inscription:
'Here I Yeth Edith & Elizabeth Doughters of John
wylde squire and Anne his wyff which died
virgyns & were buryed the yere of our lord god
a Thousand CCCCC and VIII of whose soules Jhũ
have mercy.'
Above the tablet is a brass shield having three
roundels upon a fesse, on either side of which are brass
kneeling figures.
There is also a large memorial tablet on this wall
inscribed:
'Merentissimo Conjugi, Conjux Merentissima
To the best of husbands John Squier the Late
Faithful & (oh that for so short a time) Painfull
Rector of this Parish; the only Son to that most
strenuous Propugnator of Pietie & Loyalitie (both
by Preaching & Suffering) John Squier sometime
Vicar of St. Leonards Shorditch near London:
Grace Lynch (who bare unto him one only
Daughter) Conesecrated this (such as it is) small
Monument of theyr mutuall Affection. He was
invested in this Care an: 1660. Sept: 2. He was
devested of all Care ano: 1662. Jan. 9. Aged
42 yeares.'
On the north wall of the north aisle is a tablet to
Thomas Powell of Birkenhead, bearing the following
inscription:
'Juxta hoc marmor inhumatum est corpus Thomae
Powell de Byrkhead in agro CestrieŐsi Baronetti
qui ubi huc viciniae de Barnes Elms visitatum
venisset Clarissimam Sororem suam Mariam Cartwright viduam relictam Richardi Cartwright de
Ayneho Armigeri atque una cum eá aliquandiu
commoratus fuisset supremum clausit diem 24 die
Septembris Anno DniĈ 1647.'
There are a peal of eight bells and a sanctus bell.
The first five are modern, by Warner, the sixth by
William Land, 1616; the seventh, cast by order of
Thomas Smythe (1575), has two shields stamped on
it, one a cheveron between three lions passant and
the second a goat's head razed, also a small fleur de
lis; the eighth cast by William Eldridge 1667.
The sanctus bell has the initials H. N. and is dated
1637.
The plate is of modern silver, and consists of a
chalice, paten and small almsdish, all bearing the date
mark 1846, a paten with date mark 1891, and a large
almsdish with date mark 1872.
The registers previous to 1813 are in three volumes:
(1) all entries from 1538 to 1699; (2) all entries
from 1700, baptisms and burials to 1812, marriages
stopping at 1753; (3) marriages from 1754 to
1812.
The church of HOLY TRINITY was built in
1868 in rather poor 13th-century style, and is a
plain rectangular building, consisting of a wide aisle-less nave with chancel, which slightly projects on the
east and opens into a vestry on the north and into
the organ chamber on the south, both of which
project a little beyond the walls of the nave. It is
built of Kentish rag, with stone quoins and dressings,
and is roofed with purple slates. The principal
entrance is in the west front, and is of two doorways
with a central stone column; while over is a large
wheel window under a pointed arch, the jambs of
which are continued down, serving for the doorway
also. At the north-west corner is an octagonal bellturret having a pyramidal stone roof, supported by
an open arched arcade of eight columns.
The nave is of five bays, lighted on the north and
south by single lancet windows, and has an open
steep-pitched roof, the principals of which are carried
on carved corbels, the walls on the outside being
buttressed. The east window is of three lancets under
an arched head. The church stands back from the
road in a churchyard, which is not used as a burialground.
The church of ST. MICHAEL AND ALL
ANGELS is a fine red brick building with a tile roof,
erected in 1892 in French Romanesque style to take
the place of a temporary iron church built in
1878. It consists of an apsidal chancel, with a wide
and lofty nave lighted by a clearstory, an apsidal north
chapel, south organ chamber and vestry, north and
south aisles and a baptistery at the west end of the
nave.
The quire is raised above the general floor level
of the church and projects into the nave. At the
east end of the north aisle is an apsidal chapel having
a vaulted wooden ceiling. From the apse at the east end
of the chancel an arcade of pillars having carved stone
capitals and red sandstone shafts carrying pointed red
brick arches divides the church into six bays, the
easternmost one being taken up by the quire, while
from the abaci of the capitals slender attached shafts
run up and take the roof principals. The inside
walls of the church are treated in red and yellow
brickwork. The clearstory is lighted by pairs of red
brick lancet windows, as are also the aisles. The
principal entrances are at the west end in the north
and south walls of the aisles, while at the west end
of the nave is a semicircular bay used as a baptistery,
the main wall of the nave over being carried by two
columns similar to those in the nave arcade.
ADVOWSONS
The church of St. Mary, Barnes,
was a peculiar of the Archbishop of
Canterbury. (fn. 74) The advowson has
always been in the hands of the Dean and Canons of
St. Paul's Cathedral. (fn. 75) It appears that at one time the
church was granted by the dean to Richard de Northampton for an annual payment of half a mark. (fn. 76) He
was probably the brother of Henry de Northampton,
a canon of St. Paul's who founded a hospital within
the precincts of the cathedral about the year 1120. (fn. 77)
But in 1388 it was again in the possession of the
dean and chapter. (fn. 78) At some time after 1291 (fn. 79)
the living was constituted a vicarage, but in 1388
the dean and chapter endowed it with great tithes
and made it into a rectory. (fn. 80) This arrangement was
confirmed by Archbishop Arundel in 1396. (fn. 81) The
advowson was occasionally included by the dean and
chapter in their lease of the manor. Thus Sir Henry
Wyatt presented to the church in 1513 and 1524. (fn. 82)
But it was more frequently retained in their own
hands. (fn. 83)
The living of Holy Trinity is in the gift of the
rector of Barnes.
CHARITIES
In 1653 Edward Rose, citizen of
London, left £20 for the purchase
of land, the rent to be applied to
keeping up palings round his tomb and rose trees upon
it, the surplus to be given to the poor.
In 1726 Mrs. Diana Savage left £50 for the poor;
in 1730 Mr. Peter Marquet left £50; in 1774
Mr. Edward Byfield left £20; in 1778 Mr. Nathan
Sprigg left £25; in 1787 Sir Richard Hoare left £20.
In 1804 Mrs. Mary Wright left £500 for the poor,
subject to a charge for repairing her family vault.
There are further benefactions by Mr. Franks for
bread and clothing and for Sunday schools; by
J. and E. Biggs, about 1838 and 1840 respectively,
of £15 and £7 8s. 6d. a year for the poor and Sunday
schools; by Mr. Sampayo in 1859 for the poor,
subject to repair of a tomb; by Mr. Sirry in 1880;
by two members of the family of Bailey, by wills
proved in 1882 and 1892, for the Working Men's
Institute and for the poor; and by Mr. Hedgman
for clothing or otherwise aiding children to attend
school, the last producing £95 16s. 4d. a year.
Smith's Charity is also distributed as in other Surrey
parishes. The total of the charities now amounts to
£1,282 3s. 1d. a year.