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Rh BEDS 3S4 Baptists, Weslevans, lowed schoul was founded in 10:; I, tin- im "ine n,,in . n L.wintnt about 100 por annum A in-w National school- houso has i i ^ 400 boys and girht, and a British school supported by volun- Mtiiini'.i'ii.-i. There is also an intuit school in a building hired i y the incumbent for the purpose ; attend- ance about 120. All thu schools arc under government ro are several charities, including one .ho ransom of po . whieh jiroduce about 110 per annum. Laywcll, near the upper town, is a curious intermitting spring, usually ebbing and flowing about ten times in an hour, with occasional interruptions of half an hour. At a short di.-. - ihe town is the seat of the Right Honourable Lord C'hurston. The rocks of the district are of the Devonian, or Old Bed sandstone formation. They ore generally calcareous and fossiliferous. A very extensive bone cavern has lately been discovered, affording many valuable specimens of bones and flint knives. The discoveries made in the systematic examination of this cave will bo found in Sir Charles Lycll's " Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man." Berry Head is conjectured to have been the site of a Roman camp, and old coins have been found Tuesday anil Saturday are the market days. A f.iir is held annually on Whit-Monday for the sale of, and one on the two following days for pleasure. in which from tliirty to fifty y;iehts and other vessels comji> BKIXTON, a par. in the hund. of Plympton, in the cp. of Dev to the S.E. of Plymouth. It is situated on the banks of the small river Yoalm, not far from the South Devon railway. Petty sessions are held in the village. The living is a pcrpet. cur. in the dioc. of Exeter, of the val. of 107, in the patron, of the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The parochial charities amount to 50 a year. The chief seats are Kitley House and lirixton Hall. The former is an old mansion, partly rebuilt by Rcpton, situated in pleasant grounds, and lining lomo good pictures by Sir Joshua Heynolds. The manor formerly belonged to the Pollexfens. BK1XTOX, 11 pur. in the lib. of West Medina, Isle of Wight, in the co. of Southampton, 6 miles to the S.W. of Newport. It is situated on the south-west coast of the island, near Grange Chine, and includes the limit, of IJmerston. The living is a reel.* in the dioc. of Win- chester, of the val. of 515, in the patron, of the bishop. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There is a school endowed by Noel Digby in 1814, with an income of 20
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BKIXTON, a district par. partly in Lambeth and partly in Kcnnington, east div. of the hund. of Brixton, in the co. of Surrey, 3 miles to the S. of St. Paul's. All this neighbourhood, in Queen Elizabeth's time, abounded in deer, wild fowl, &c. It is now a delightful suburb of London, lying between Kennington Common, recently converted into a park, and the pur. of Stroatham, being about '2} miles in length, on the Brighton road. For the greater part of the distance the road rises gradually, and is lined on either side with villas, mansions, and genteel houses, surrounded by gardens and pleasure grounds. JUT, the poet, resided on Brixton Hill, where he composed many of hit poems, and Oliver Cromwell is said to have lived at Loughborough House. The living is a pcrpet. cur. in the dioc. of Winchester, of the val. of 700, in the patron, of the Archbishop of Canter- burr. The church is dedicated to St. Matthew. It is of the Doric order of architecture, with a tower at the oast end, and was built in 1824. The original distrii t parish of St. Matthew's, Brixton, has boon subdivided frequently of late, owing to the vast increase of new streets and houses ; the following churches arc in it : >hn'8, Angelltown ; St. Matthew's, Denmark-hill ; l piscopal chapel, Stockwcll-green. Portions of the district have also been given to Holy Trinity church, -hill ; All Saints, Clapham-park ; and St. Paul's, -hill. There are three chapels for the Inde- pendents and one for the Wesleyans, and National and infant schools. Almsliu -s for 12 aged women founded by .nlvJI. (in Biixton Hill it the house of correction for the county, in which 623 prisoners were confined in udon almshouses are also situated in this di.-t: BKIXTON DEVEBILL, a par. in the hund. of i tesbury, in the co. of Wilts, 5 miles to the minster, its post town. The living is in ihe dioc. of Salisbury, of the val. of 480, in t! patron, of the bishop. The church is dedicated t" St. ill. IlKIXTON Iir.NIi' : i sub- divisions of the co. of Surrey, situated in the ead^V parliamentary div. of the co., and bounded on t. t!ie river 'Illumes, separating it froi: sex; on the E. by the co. of Kent, on the S. by hund. of Wollington, and on the W. by the hund, Kingston. There are two divs. of the hund., the eat and the western. The former (anciently among the sessions of the abbey of Bcrmondscy) contains the of Bennondsey, Cambcnv. II, Cl:q .hum, I.umheih, ington, Rothcrhithe, Streatham, with parts of th< Battorsea and Deptford. The latter contains the of Barnes, Morton, Mortlakc, Putney, 1. < Wandsworth, Wimbledon, and part of Hattersea. ton hund. comprises an area of about 30,400 acres. BKIXWORTI1, a par. in the hund. of (hiim-bury, in the co. of Northampton, 6 miles to the N. of North- ampton. It is a station on the Northampton, Ui^H Harborough, and Stamford branch of the London North- Western railway. Brixworth was once a market town, and the manor was held by the FiU-Simuns The par. contains iron and other . rics, and so^^l the inhabitants ai The living is a vie.* in the dioc. of lYtni the val. of 300, in the patron. > i . ifl church, dedicated to All Saints, is one of the must inte- resting in England, with its Saxon archc- Roman bricks, and exhibiting every subscqi. architecture interposed up to the time of Jlenry VI. Mr. Britton concluded it to ha g Anglo-l^^H building, Mr. Rickmon a Non i as deduced by Mr. Roberts, from u in 1835, that he then classed it : buildings of the country, though those of Barton-on-Humbcr and Earl's Barton. It remained for Mr. Walkins, the present in the great antiquity and real charu iuiili" which he found, by excavations carried on with unt energy both witliin and without the been built upon the foundations of a still n, structure, the walls and piers of which C"iild still clearly denned, proving it to have been < for a Roman basilica ; or, as Mr. Wutkins more c citly defines it, "a building in whicb Ul functions, as united in <me person, i the civil and religious authorities ex* the same individual the rex Anias atqut laeerdot hi its type in the earliest periods of most in This hypothesis he illustrated at a meeting of British Archaeological Association, held on August, IKi 'iico to the I fabi in the ruins of Nineveh, as described by M corresponding in its several details to that at Brix and by the slabs from Nineveh in the British Mi on which he thinks he has disco, of our Saxon arches, and beside it, on one of the of the Norman arch, with it chevron However thin may he, there can be no doubt antiquity of tin ].n lent building, which was a von structure when the p resent south aisle was ad early part of the 14th < de Verdun, lord of the manor, who-, < I! cd in an arched recess of the south v. aisle. Fifty years lat> r, the larger arch was opened, and i window al I rth wall of this compartment a decorated and a Tudor window afterwards inserted ; the latter is now superseded decorated window, substituted at the time of rehn; this wall in that part. The church contain.- :