In Archer was elected mayor, another first. The most unspoilt part is the old village, south of the church. In recent years, much of the riverside has filled with luxury apartment complexes, of which the most dramatic is the Montevetro building, which is all too clearly visible behind the church in the photo at the top. The church of Battersea is dedicated to St. Mary; it is in the diocese of Winchester, and in the deanery of Southwark; the benefice is a vicarage.
Laurence, Abbot of Westminster, first procured the appropriation of the great tithes for that abbey about the year fn. The monks of Westminster were to receive out of it two marks, reserving sufficient to the vicar to support the episcopal burdens and himself.
I find that the rectory was held by John fn. The advowson was granted, with the manor, to the St. Johns; and has continued annexed to it ever since. At the taxation, An. The vicarage is valued in the king's books, at 13 l. It was presented fn. John, was worth 80 l. The principal profits of the vicarage, arise from the tithes of the gardens.
There are two terriers fn. Owen Ridley, who was instituted to the vicarage of Battersea, An. The circumstance would not have been worth recording but for two curious petitions which it produced; the originals of which are in the possession of the present vicar, by whom they have been obligingly communicated.
One of them is from certain of the inhabitants to Dr. Swale, one of her majesty's high commissioners for causes ecclesiastical; in which they state many grievances which they had suffered from their vicar during the space of eighteen years; amongst other crimes alleged against him, is that of conversing with a witch.
The object of their petition was, that he might be deprived: it is signed with thirteen names, and about thirty marks. The other petition, which is to lord Burleigh, being the more curious of the two, is here given at large: "To the right honourable the lord Burleigh, lord highe treasurer of England.
Ridley: so it is right honourable that some have sought his deprivation, by many trobles, many yeares together, and in divers courts; sometymes in the archdeacon's, sometymes by complayninge to the busshopp, sometymes before the highe commissioners, sometymes before the archbushopp of Canterbury, his grace; yes, and once he hath bene indicted at the assizes.
But God, the defender of the innocent, hath so protected him, that his cawse beinge tryed and knowene, he hath hadd a good issue of all theis trobles; yet the adversarie will not cease, but seeketh to deprive him of his life, for seekinge after witches, and procuringe the death of a man by witchcraft. He hath byn our vicar theis twenty yeares; he is zealous in the gospell, honest in life, painefull to teache us, and to catechize our youth; charitable and liberall to the poore and needy, accordinge to his abilety; he never sued any of all his parisheoners for tythes, althoughe he hath hadd cawse gyven by some so to doe.
Of our conscience, wee take him rather to hate wytches, than to seeke after them; for he hath spoken often very bitterly against them owt of the bible, neither doe wee thinke or suspect the woman to be a witche which is accused, but hath alwayes lyved honestly, quietly, and painefully here, to gett a poore lyvinge truely. Therefore, the man beinge such a one, whome for his vertues wee love, his trobles heretofore so greate, so many, and so chardgable to the undoinge of himselfe, his wife, and children, and now so daingerous for the losse of his life, doth move us to become suitors unto your honour for him, beseechinge your honor to take notice, and to make due triall of him and his cawse, so that the truth beinge fownd owte, justice maie take place; your honor will defend the innocent in his innocencie, putt an end to his longe, many, wearisome, and daingerous trobles, and be a patrone unto him in all his good and honest actions; so shall wee be bound to thancke God for you, and to pray for you for ever.
Thomas Temple, brother of Sir John Temple, the Irish master of the rolls, was instituted to the vicarage of Battersea in fn. Temple was succeeded in the vicarage of Battersea by the learned bishop Patrick fn. John, by whom he was presented to this benefice. Several of his tracts were published while he was vicar of Battersea, and are dedicated to his patron. He resigned the vicarage in He was a zealous champion of the protestant religion, both by his writings, and in conversation; particularly at a conference which he, in conjunction with Doctor Jane, held in the presence of James the Second, with two Roman catholic priests; in which he had so much the superiority over his opponents in argument, that the king retired in disgust, saying, that he never heard a good cause so ill defended, or a bad one so well.
At the revolution, he was rewarded with the bishopric of Chichefter fn. He died in , and left behind him a very numerous collection of printed works; consisting of sermons, devotional and controversial tracts, and paraphrases on the scriptures, which are held in great estimation, and which were continued by William Lowth, father of the late bishop of London.
Thomas Church, of Brazen Nose College, Oxford, who was instituted to the vicarage of Battersea in the year , distinguished himself much in the field of controversy, in which he engaged against Westley, Whitfield, and Middleton; for his sucessful attack upon the latter, and his defence of the miraculous powers during the early ages of christianity, the University of Oxford conferred on him the degree of D. He was too zealously attached to his religion to let the opinions of Lord Bolingbroke pass unnoticed, notwithstanding he had been his patron.
His publication upon this subject, however, was anonymous; it was called, An Analysis of the Philosophical Works of the late Lord Bolingbroke, and came out in Church published likewise several single sermons: he died in , aged 49, having never obtained any farther preferment than the vicarage of Battersea, and a prebendal stall in St.
Paul's cathedral. The register of this parish begins in the year ; and, excepting the former part of the present century, appears to be accurate. Church, soon after he was instituted to the vicarage, began to transcribe a considerable part of the registers, which, for many years preceding, had been kept by a very ignorant parish clerk.
He proceeded so far as to copy the whole of the baptisms; and, with great industry, rectified a vast number of mistakes, and supplied many deficiencies. The difficulty of transcribing the burials, of which indeed for some years there were no entries, discouraged him from proceeding any farther in this laudable undertaking. The increase of population in this parish, appears to have been very small during the last hundred years, in which respect it differs from most others in the neighbourhood of the metropolis.
The reason of this difference appears to have been the inconvenience of the passage over the Thames. This could not be so much felt a century ago, when our ancestors were little accustomed to the luxury of bridges; but no doubt would act as a bar to population, since they have been more frequent.
This obstacle was removed at Battersea, by the building of the bridge there, which was opened about twenty years ago, and which now begins to have the effect of increasing the number of buildings, above twenty houses having been lately erected, most of which are as yet uninhabited; including these, the number of houses in the parish is about These numbers prove, that the village was not free from the plague in either of those years; yet when we compare them with the average of those periods, they do not show its fatality to have been so great as might be expected in a village so near to London.
Battersea was long the residence, as well as the property, of the St. Johns; and many of the births, deaths, and marriages of that family are recorded in the parish register; the most interesting of which I shall insert: "The Lord Oliver St.
John, buried Jan. Oliver St. John was the first of the family who settled at Battersea; he married Joan, daughter and heir of Henry Roydon Esq. He was general of the forces in Ireland, and was lord high treasurer, and lord deputy of that realm; was created Viscount Grandison, of Ireland, by James I. John: he died without issue. Battersea Coat of Arms. The Heart of Battersea. Where is Battersea? Some people and organisations still remain confused as to whether they are in Battersea. Others wonder where Battersea starts and ends.
If you wish to see whether you live or work in Battersea, a modern day map which has had added to it the old boundaries of the former Borough of Battersea and the current Battersea Parliamentary Constituency can be viewed via the following link :. You will discover from the map that Battersea stretches beyond SW11 and includes parts of SW4 like Clapham Common Northside and Westside the latter originally being an extension of Battersea Rise , and half of Clapham Common itself including its famous Bandstand.
We intend to add further older maps over time, to help people orientate themselves to the Battersea of today and yesterday. Incredibly, there is only one place in all the world called Battersea excepting a very small settlement in Ontario , and its he re in south west London in an area formerly part of the historic County of Surrey. Battersea has existed with different descriptive labels and legal identities over history.
Battersea on a map Bounding box showing extent of Battersea. Location of Battersea within the UK. Source: Ordnance Survey Open Names.
Licence: Open Government Licence. Source: Ordnance Survey County Boundaries. Location of Battersea within Greater London. Location of Battersea within SW Source: Wikipedia: List of postcode districts in the United Kingdom.
Battersea is 9 miles north of Ewell. Battersea is 10 miles north of Epsom. Battersea is 10 miles north of Banstead.
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