[152b] For a full description of the splitting of the walls of this church, and the cause which produced it, see The Builder, for 1846, pages 589–615.
There is an error in a previous notice of this church in the Builder, Vol. IV., page 395, which may have led to the belief, that it did not much concern the rate-payers of Paddington, how it was built; the printer of this notice having made the church commissioners give ten thousand pounds, instead of one thousand—the actual amount given.
[153] Household Words, November 6, 1852.
[155] Mr. Cundy’s generous gift did not save the parish the payment of “£38 for a carved oak altar table and two chairs, supplied at Trinity;” the question of stone or wood having become of great importance; the wood having carried it in this instance.
[156] It must not be imagined that this vestry represented the majority of rate-payers; for it did no such thing. At the annual public meeting of rate-payers, which was held after these great outlays for the church had been incurred, the names of the parish officers who sanctioned these proceedings were received with the most unmistakeable marks of disapprobation; and at an election, which virtually tried the management of the whole body, a great majority of the rate-payers voted against the vestry. Moreover, I am of opinion, after the most careful and impartial investigation of this subject, that the bona fide government of this parish is, and has been for years, in the hands of the bishop and his lessees, (through their agents in the parish,) and a few builders.
[157] Vide Cash Account, 1847—p. 49.
[159] Vide Morning Post, October, 5th, 1850.
[160] Report of the Lock Hospital Asylum, and Chapel, 1852.
[161] Macaulay’s History of England, Vol. I. page 88.
[169] For an excellent description of the method of teaching adopted at this school, see Household Words.—December 25, 1852.