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given to the building fund by the Commissioners for Building
New Churches, and the remainder was raised partly by the
sale of seats and partly by an arrangement for leasing the
vaults under the chapel. The building will seat about 1,200
people, 300 of the seats being free. The Rev. Paul Wyattr
M.A., F.L.S., is the present incumbent, and there is no
endowment or parsonage house. Among the better known
clergymen who have held the incumbency of St. Philip's may
be mentioned Canon Repton, Rev. F. Pigou, D.D., and Rev.
Professor Stanley Leathes, D.D.
3.—St. Luke's, Berwick Street.—This church, which
had a district assigned to it in the year 1841, occupies the
site of an old chapel, and was built in the year 1839, at a
cost of about £14,000, of which upwards of £10,000 was
raised by voluntary subscriptions from the parishioners of St.
James. The church will seat about 700 people, the whole of
the seats being free and unappropriated. The Rev. A. V.
Oxford, M.A., is the present incumbent. The value of the
living is £300 per annum, £200 being derived from endowment
and £100 being received from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
During the incumbency of the Rev. Harry Jones
the interior of the church was much altered and improved.
4.—St. Peter's, Great Windmill Street.— The
foundation stone of this Church was laid by the late
Earl of Derby on St. Peter's Day, 1860. The building was
erected at a cost of £5,500 from the designs of Mr. Raphael
Brandon, and consecrated by the Bishop of London on the
12th of July, 1861. It affords accommodation for 650 worshippers,
the whole of the seats being free and unappropriated.
The cost of obtaining the site (£6,000) and of erecting the
building was defrayed from the St. James's Free Church-
accommodation Fund, which was established by the Rev. J.E.
Kempe, M.A., Rector of St. James's. A district was assigned