A SELWYN MEMORIAL.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1520, 16 August 1912, Page 8

A SELWYN MEMORIAL.

/. _ 6 . / , •On Sunday afternoon, Juno 16, the Bishop of London dedicated the new morning chapel and vestries at Hampstcad Parish Church. With the structural work mentioned the electric light and new- systems of heating and ventilation have been installed at a total outlay of about X 5600. The Church, which is well known to most Londoners, standing in a beautiful churchyard at the end of Church Row, was built in 1745 on the site which had been occupied by a church for at least six centuries. It was enlarged in. 18M, and in 1878 a chancel was built at the west end and the Altar removed from cast to west. There is a fine bust of Keats in the Church, erected by American admirers in 1891; and in the churchyard rest the bodies of 'John Constable, George Du Manner, Sir Walter Be-snnt, Sir James Mackintosh, Joanna Baillie, and Mrs. Rundle Charles, to mention only a few whose names are yet remembered. The Bishop of Islington, who had lived his youth iu the parish, his father being churchwarden for a number of years, preached in the morning, and the Bishop of Willesden, as Bishop of the district and as a parishioner, in the evening. The, great service of the day was at 3 p.m., when the Bishop of London, in the presence of the Mayor and Corporation, Mr. Fletcher, the M. P. for Hampstoad, the local members of the L.C.C., Bishop of Thornton, many clergy of the Rural Deanery, Prebendary Selwyn, and others, solemnly dedicated the new work and blessed many gifts presented for usein tho chapel. These included Altarfionfals, liuon, cruets, and a piscina erected on tho base of the nnciont font by Prebendary Selwyn as a memorial to his father, Bishop Georgo Augustus Selwyn, of New Zealand and Lichfield, and two of his uncles, who were baptised in the Church a hundred years ago. Tho Bishop preached from the Prayer Book Version of Psnlm cviii 1. At. tho commencement of his address he made the announcement that, subject to an Order of the Kins in Council, a third ATe.hdoaeoni-y would Iks constituted for the Diocese, to bo known as the Archdeaconry of Hampstend,. and that ho had appointed as first Archdeacon the Vicar of (he parish and Rural Dean. of Hampstead, the Rev. Brook Deciles. With a mileage of 1121, the / Great j Southern and Western is the larges-t rail- I way in- Ireland. I