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CHAPEL-OF-EASE GROUNDS.
The wn,ll surrounding these grounds has now been removed and
iron railings substituted much to the advantage of the neighbourhood.
This improvement is mainly duo to the senior churchwarden
for the year, Mr. G. S. Elliott.
In the early part of 1 1890 as stated in the last report the
Vestry Clerk was directed, subject. to the consent of the Vicar being
first given, to apply to the Home Secretary for an order entirely
closing these grounds for burial purposes and, upon such order being
obtained, to apply to the Bishop of London for a faculty to enable the
Vestry to lay the ground out as a Public Recreation Ground under
and pursuant to the Metropolitan Open Spaces Act. In July, 1890, the
Vicar made a statement to the Vestry to the effect that with regard to
the Chapel-of-Ease grounds he was anxious to follow exactly the course
pursued on the occasion of the planting and laying out of the parish
churchyard some lew years ago and asked to be furnished with plans
shewing how the ground is to be laid out, intimating that on receiving
such plans and proposals he would give a final answer which he hoped
might be favourable.
Nothing further having been heard of the matter the Vestry in
December, 1890, requested the Churchwardens to prepare plans and
after having obtained the approval of the Vicar to submit them
to the Vestry with an estimate of the cost of carrying them out.
At Lady Day, 1891, the matter was still in the hands of the
Churchwardens.
HIGHBURY FIELDS.
In the last annual report it was mentioned that Highbury Lodge
with some live acres of land adjoining Highbury Fields had been sold
by public auction for £12,000. In October, 1890, a communication
was received from the agents of the purchasers of the estate offering to