HARVINGTON. 199

Rev. A. H. Winnington Ingram is the rector; value of the living, £390; church accommodation, 300; free seats, 225. Church: tower very Early Norman; Early English and Perpendicular work in the rest of the building; open oak seats of the date of 1S82, carved with sentences of Scripture, are preserved in the tower; there are also some curious piscinae. Within the last thirteen years the sum of £1,760 has been spent in new roofing and reseating the church, inserting a handsome stained glass east window, erecting a shingle spire, providing a new peal of six bells rung by machinery, erecting one of Mr. Dent's turret clocks, fencing and planting the churchyard, &c. Much interesting matter may be found in the registers and parochial records here, and a few mortuary inscriptions of a singular character may still be read. Among those not here, but which Habingdon quotes as though it apparently existed in his time, is one "Upon the death of that reverend, lovinge, zealous, and powerful preacher of the wourd of God, Mr, Thos. Ferryman, the ealder prebendary of the cathedrall church of Worcester and parson of this church." This Mr. Ferryman was domestic chaplain to the Bishop, and was with him in 1675 when Queen Elizabeth stayed a week at his Lordship's palace in Worcester.

Harvington is provided with a reading-room, supplied with books and daily papers at the cost of only two-pence a week to each member. Any deficiency is made good by Mrs. Ingram, the wife of the rector. A handsome school and mistress's house, built a few years ago in the Gothic style, is attended by between fifty and sixty children. The rector, with the help of subscriptions from owners and occupiers in the parish, is responsible for its maintenance. The Evesham and Redditch Railway has a commodious station in this parish. The locality is healthy; people live to a good old age, and I am assured, as another proof of the salubrity of the spot, that parents here have generally large families. Twelve acres of garden allotments set out have contributed greatly to the moral and physical welfare of the poorer population.