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Parish records of St Lawrence's Church, New Brentford, deposited in the Greater London Record Office, 40 Northampton Road, London, EC1R OHB, 14 May 1984 (Acc. 1982)

The parish of New Brentford had its origins as a medieval chapelry formed out of the southern end of the parish of Hanwell. Between 1175 and 1179 Ralph de Brito founded St Lawrence's Hospital, New Brentford in honour of the royal family, his lord and his own kin. Beside it he founded St Lawrence's chapel, served by a chaplain and with its own burial ground. All offerings and tithes were reserved to the Rector of Hanwell. De Brito made no provision for appointments, and the chapel was served by the Rector of Hanwell or his nominees. The chaplain enjoyed some tithes by 1721 when New Brentford, already governed by its own vestry, was made a separate ecclesiastical parish. The patronage still remained with the Rector of Hanwell and in 1744 New Brentford became a perpetual curacy or vicarage in the gift of the Rector of Hanwell. In 1961 St Lawrence was amalgamated with St George and St Paul, Old Brentford under the patronage of the Bishop of London.

Apprenticising Charities: Dame Mary Spencer, by a will proved 1659, left a rent of £6 charged from 1668 on the Butts closes, New Brentford, for apprenticing one boy a year. In 1822 apprenticing was effected at irregular intervals by the parish officers in conjunction with the trustees of Lord Ossulston's charity.

John Bennet, Lord Ossulston by a deed dated 1692 gave £100 to apprentice children whose parents were communicants at New Brentford chapel.

Distributive Charities: Henry Redman, by a will dated 1528, left the 'George' and other property to support a minister at New Brentford. A rent charge of £6 was agreed in 1576 and divided equally between the minister and the inhabitants in 1714.

John Middleton, by a will dated 1624, left a rent charge of £5 for the poor of New Brentford. The income of £5 was distributed in bread and fuel, with Andrews' and Hubbold's charity and Townsend's and Williams' charity in 1822 and 1867.

Richard Andrews left £20 and Ann Hubbold, by a will dated 1673, an additional £10 for coal in New Brentford. The income was spent on fuel and bread in 1822 and 1867.

James Townsend, by a will dated 1741, left £100 and Mary Williams, by a will dated 1766, left an additional £5 for the poor, and John Bennett gave £100 stock of which the income was distributed in cash at Brentford in 1867.

Elizabeth Pitt, by a will proved 1816, left £300 stock for New Brentford and the Half Acre district of Old Brentford. The income was distributed in fuel in 1867.

George Osborne, by a will dated 1843, left £92 8s 6d. stock for bread in New Brentford.

Ann Northall, by a will dated 1857, left £333 6s 8d stock, subject to the maintenance of a vault in New Brentford church. The income of £10 provided bread, fuel and clothing in 1867.

Henry Meyers, by a will proved 1873, left £100 stock, yielding £2 15s for cash payments in New Brentford in 1899, and a like sum for the parishes of St George and St Paul, Old Brentford.

New Brentford United Charities

A scheme of 1918 established a separate ecclesiastical charity with £40 out of Ann Northall's endowment and united the New Brentford Charities of Townsend, Williams, Bennett, Pitt, Osborne, Northall and Meyers.

See also SCHOOLS

ST LAWRENCE, BRENTFORD

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ST LAWRENCE WITH ST PAUL, BRENTFORD (from September 1952)

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