364 CITY OF WORCESTER.

1850, has Norman arcade work, doorway, and font. Sittings, 160; population, 323; value of living, £115; rector, Rev; D. H. Cotes; patron, the Bishop.

All Saints': the Black Friars had a monastery here till the Reformation, and the name is still preserved in a court-yard at the bottom of Broad Street. This street and Bridge Street form one straight thoroughfare from the Cross to the bridge over Severn, leading to Herefordshire and Wales. Population of the parish at last census, 2,421. The old church was much injured during the civil wars, and the present edifice (except a part of the tower, which is old) was erected by White in 1742; is in the Doric style, plain, but capacious, having gome 800 sittings. There is here an effigy of Edward Hurdman, last Bailiff and first Mayor of Worcester, 1621. Good peal of bells. Value of living, £140 ; patron, Lord Chancellor ; rector, Rev. B. Arthure.

Claines: One of the outlying parishes, the greatest part of Which is in the county, and the church and village two miles from the city, the northern end of which, however, including the Tything, St. George's and Britannia Squares, and part of Lowesmoor, is in Claines. The Priory of Worcester bad considerable property here, including the mill of Tapenhall, "with the miller and all his men;" also a fishery with the weir and island at Bevere (in the Severn), which island formed a place of refuge for the inhabitants of when the Danes pillaged and set fire to Worcester, and also in 1637, when the plague raged here so fatally. There a nunnery in the Tything, occupied by white ladies, so called from the colour of their habit. Some remains of their chapel still exist. Hard by is St. Oswald's, an hospital founded by the Saxon Bishop of that name, and now occupied by decayed old men and women. The acreage of the county part of the parish is 4,483, and the population of the entire parish about 8,000. The Ecclatiastical Commissioners are the lords of the manor, and besides them Sir O. Wakeman, T. G. Curtler, Esq., and Rev. W. E. Wall are the chief landowners. Parish church, chiefly Perpendicular