cated to St. Andrew, and for several years was known by that name. The neighbourhood, having become populous, and the want of further church accommodation being very pressing, a committee was formed in 1888 for the provision of a permanent church, and the late Mr. J. D. Sedding was commissioned as the architect. It was not, however, until after his death that the committee felt able to commence the building for which he had provided the designs, and this work, so far as it has at present been carried out, was begun under the superintendence of Mr. H. Wilson, Mr. Sedding's pupil, who succeeded to his practice. The original site was added to by purchase, and in May 1892 the foundation stone was laid by H.R.H. Princess Christian. By the summer of 1893, the chancel, nave, aisles, and transepts had been completed, and on July 15th of that year, the Bishop of London (Dr. Temple) consecrated the church under the name of St. Peter's, Castle Hill. The parish, which is differently named as St. Peter's, Mount Park, was not separated until the July in the following year, when it was formally constituted by the Queen in Council; the Rev. W. Petty, who had built the iron church, and had served the district from 1882 onwards, being instituted as the first vicar.

The church is not yet entirely finished, there still remaining to be built the tower, the Lady Chapel, and the exterior wall of the east end, which, when it is raised, will, with the existing wall, form an ambulatory behind the Sacrarium. Still, except for the Lady Chapel, the interior of the church is practically complete, although a great deal of the carving and other internal decoration have yet to be carried out, including twenty-one statues inside, and eleven outside the building. The design is late Gothic, and is carried out in Box Ground stone and cream-coloured brick; and both inside and outside it presents several original features. The immense west window-floriated Perpendicular-is deeply

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recessed into the front,' and is placed behind two square pillars, from which flying buttresses stretch to the mullions of the window; above it is a niche, intended for a statue of St. Peter, whilst on the apex of the front is an equestrian statue of St. George, the patron saint of England. The roof, which extends from the aisle walls in one continuous upward slope to the ridge, is pierced by prolongations of the interior piece of the nave carried up on external turrets, with connecting arches, surmounted by pedestals, intended for statues. This feature breaks the great area of the roof, which, otherwise, would be an eyesore. The last pair of these exterior arches yet remains to be built; when finished they will abut on the future turrets of the east wall.

In the interior, the nave piers are striking from their great bulk, they support a series of very wide-spread elliptical arches, and these again support a Gothic triforium gallery, which runs along each side of the church in the place of a clerestory, and is hereafter to be continued over the altar at the east end. The chancel, which is gained by a broad semi-circular flight of five steps, is divided from the nave by a dwarf screen of Polyphant stone with Portland dressings, which, in its present unpolished condition, looks somewhat heavy. The interior of the roof, and the other woodwork, painted in various tones of green, passing through peacock green and blue tints, into blue over the chancel, looks somewhat peculiar owing to the colour scheme not yet being completed. There is a very fine three-manual organ in the chancel, erected by Messrs. Bishop and Son, at a cost of £1,200. The hangings on the unfinished east wall are the work of the late William Morris. Two of the doors, which are sheathed with brass, should be noticed, that in the west front containing in the

1 The beautiful west window, although unfilled, is, perhaps, the most striking feature in the church. It is one of the finest modern windows in the south of England.

central upper panel a bronze alto-relievo of an angel, by Mr. Pomeroy, winner of the sculpture prize at the Chicago World's Fair. The church at present is seated for 1,044 persons, but will ultimately accommodate a larger number.

CHAPTER XX.

Ealing and its Chapels.

The Congregational Church.-Its Early Origin.-First Building.—The Present Site.-Description.-Ministers.-Additions and Improvements.-Wesleyan.-Origin.-Present Building Erected.-Liberal Gifts.-A New Circuit.-St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church.— Temporary Building.-Change of Site.-Foundation Stone Laid by the Marquis of Lorne.-Opening Services.-Later Improvements and Enlargement.-A Description.-Haven Green Chapel. -Date of Erection.-Plan of Building.-Cost.-Ministers.-Class Rooms.

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HE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH' is the oldest, and, in some senses, the parent of all the Free Churches in Ealing. Its origin dates back to the close of the last century, and was due to the work of the London Itinerant Society. For several years it was carried on in a cottage adjacent to the premises now occupied by Mr. William Grace, on Ealing Green. In the year 1822, a small chapel was erected in the Grove, on the site now occupied by the Infant School. The first minister, the Rev. W. Fitt, was ordained in 1834. In 1848, it was found necessary to provide a more commodious building, and in this the Rev. G. J. Adeney-whose son, the Rev. W. F. Adeney, M.A., was for many years minister of the Acton Congregational Church, and is now one of the Professors at New College, London-ministered from 1848 to 1856,

1 By the Rev. W. Garrett-Horder, Minister.