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| Kellys Directory of 1864
WAVENDON, with the Hamlet of WOBURN SANDS. WAVENDON is a parish and village, distant one mile from Woburn Sands station, 52 miles from London by rail and 45 by road, and 5 from Newport Pagnell, in the hundred, union, county court district and rural deanery of Newport Pagnell, archdeaconry of Buckingham, and diocese of Oxford. The church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin was entirely restored, under the direction of Mr. W. Butterfield, architect, in 1848-9, at a cost of over £4,000, raised by parish subscriptions and a donation from H. M. Hoare, Esq., liberally aided by the rector; the expense of the chancel also being entirely defrayed by the Rev. H. Burney: the components of the church are a chancel, nave with aisles, clerestory, south porch, and west tower containing 5 bells: the style of the chancel is Early Decorated; the piers and arches of the nave, the roofs, and clerestory are also fine specimens of the Early Decorated Gothic, and the upper part of the tower Perpendicular; the nave is very lofty, and the aisles were formerly side chapels, the piscinas of which still remain: the chancel is divided from the nave by a low stone screen and very elegant gates of solid brass; the floor is richly paved with Minton's encaustic tiles; in the south wall are a double piscina of curious design, and a triple sedilia, and recessed in the opposite wall is a stone arcade, with plain semicircular arches all the painted windows are by O'Connor: The east window represents the Four Evangelists, Our Lord, with St. Peter and Sr. Paul; and in the highest compartment A Majesty, representing our Lord seated in Glory and in the act of Blessing; those in the south of the chancel The Annunciation, and the Adoration of the Magi, that in the north, aisle, The Crucifixion; and there are two memorial windows and a handsome monument to the Hoare family: there is a large sculptured font of Totternhoe stone, with a finely carved oak cover, and a fine old carved oak pulpit; the area is seated with open oak benches, with chairs in the centre. The living is a rectory, value £843 per annum, with residence, in the gift of Henry Arthur Hoare, Esq., and held by the Rev. Henry Burney, M. A., of Exeter College, Oxford. The new rectory house was erected by the Rev. H. Blarney, M. A., at a cost £3000; it is a handsome edifice, in the Early Gothic style, and built of the sandstone quarried in the parish. Wavendon House is the residence of Henry Arthur Hoare, Esq., J. P. The area of the parish is 2,665 acres, chiefly the properly of H. A. Hoare, Esq., and Messrs. Denison, J. Anderson, C. Ridgway, and J. Battams. The Duke of Bedford is also a proprietor to the amount of 150 acres or more, The Manor Farm is the property of Mr. J. Anderson. There is a National school, endowed with a charity for educating, clothing and apprenticing ten poor boys, and almshouses for four poor widows. There is also a county police station in the village. The population in 1861 was 879.
POST OFFICE Samuel King, receiver. Letters arrive from Woburn about 8 am; dispatched at 5 p.m. week days, & on sundays at 11.30 a.m. Fenny Stratford & Woburn are the nearest money order offices & post office savings banks. WOBURN SANDS, one mile to the south, is a railway and telegraph station on the London and North-Western Railway, in the Leighton Buzzard county court district. In this hamlet are a Wesleyan chapel and a Friends' meeting-house, and the National school is also used as a chapel of ease. This part of the parish is particularly salubrious, being situated on the sand hills, and in the vicinity of the beautiful Aspley plantations. Parish Clerk, John Mabley. POST OFFICE - Thomas Hudson, receiver. Letters arrive from Woburn at 6.45a.m.; dispatched at 5.35p.m. & on sundays at 10.30a.m. Woburn is the nearest money order office & post office savings bank. Assistant Overseer, William Harris. Public Schools: National, Wavendon, Frederick Greenfield, master. National, Woburn Sands, Miss Frances Southgate, mistress.
Wavendon Residential Mr. George Frederick Brunton, Ivy Cottage Wavendon Commercial George Abercrombie, Leathern Bottle
Woburn Sands Residential William Henry Denison, esq. Hardwick Cottage Woburn Sands Commercial |
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