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to the Church in the year 1861, and there is an endowment
of £230 per annum, of which £200 is derived from the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners and £30 from interest on
moneys in the hands of Queen Anne's Bounty; there is no
parsonage house.
The Church was pronounced by Mr. Beresford Hope,
M.P., to be one of the best, if not the best, specimens of
modern architecture in London. It is built in the Gothic
style, and probably the choir of a well-known continental
cathedral has given the idea of the interior forms. The organ
is by Gray and Davidson, and the Church owes the possession
of this fine instrument to the energy of Mr. Crane, the present
churchwarden of St. James's.
The following is a list of the incumbents of St. Peter's:—
Rev. George Smith, B.D., now Rector of St. Cross, Norfolk.
Eev. G. H. Wilkinson, D.D., now Bishop of Truro.
Eev. Arthur Mozley, M.A., now Rector of Plymtree, Devon.
Eev. H. A. Sheringham, M.A., Present Incumbent and Priest in
ordinary to the Queen.
St. Peter's District Schools were built as a Memorial to the
late Earl of Derby, who died in the year 1869, and were
named the "Derby Memorial Schools," as a lasting record of
his Lordship's munificence at the time of the erection of
St. Peter's Church. They were opened by the Lord Francis
Hervey, a very large contributor to the Building Fund, and
were enlarged a few years later at his Lordship's sole expense.
Accommodation is provided for 750 children, and the building
is vested in the Vicar and Churchwardens as Trustees.
5.—St. John the Baptist, Great Marlborough Street.
The District of St. John the Baptist was constituted in the
year 1865, the first incumbent, the Rev. W. W. Edwards,
M.A., conducting Divine Service in a hired room at the