built in 1827; and a Baptist Chapel, erected in 1847.  The latter cost about £900, and is under the ministry of the Rev. E. Davis.  Day and Sunday schools are attached to several of the places of worship, and the wealthier parishioners subscribe liberally to various religious and benevolent institutions.  The parish has also several endowed CHARITIES, as noticed below.

Romford CHARITY SCHOOL is of unknown origin, but in 1727 it had acquired several hundred pounds, from savings of contributions and legacies.  In that year, the trustees gave £150 for a piece of land, upon which they built a school house, for the reception and education of 45 boys and 20 girls, and for the residence of the master and mistress.  In 1730, Joseph Bosworth bequeathed to the school a freehold messuage in Romford, now consisting of two cottages, let for £20, and a plot of ground, let on a building lease for £12 per annum.  The charity also possesses £1,027. 1s. 6d., three per cent. Consols, and £50 new 3½ per cents., derived from gifts and legacies at various periods.  The are about 60 annual subscribers of one guinea each; and the charity also derives about £50 a year, from collections after two sermons at the parish church, swelling the total yearly income to about £170.  Pursuant to a decree of the Court of Chancery, new trustees were appointed in 1833, and a new scheme was established for the future regulation of the charity; whereby it is provided "that the governors should have power to admit an additional number of children, residing in or belonging to the parishes of Hornchurch, Romford, and Havering, for the purpose of education in the principles of the Christian religion, as taught and professed in the Church of England;"--"that the number of trustees should not exceed 18, and that they should be chosen from the governors; that every annual subscriber of one guinea, or upwards, should be a governor, as well as the vicar and curate for the time being; and that the surplus income might be applied in enlarging the school house, &c."  The present Boy's School is a large room, built in 1835, and attended by about 140 boys,--the old charity school having been combined with a National School, to which the national scholars pay 1d. each per week.  The benefits of the charity have been extended to 60 boys, who are gratuitously educated, and 45 of whom are also clothed by the governors.  The Girl's School is the room formerly used as the boy's school, and is attended by 80 girls, 30 of whom are on the foundation, and 20 of that number are clad by the charity.  The present Boys' school was built at a cost of £550, raised by subscription, except £230, granted by Government and the National School Society.  The master has a yearly salary of £70, and three tons of coals yearly.  The schoolmistress has an annual salary of £40, and a yearly allowance of two tons of coals.  They both reside in the school house, rent and tax free.  About one-fifth of the charity scholars are sent from Havering, and the remainder from Romford and Hornchurch parishes.  For apprenticing, yearly, from this charity school, two poor boys of Hornchurch and one of Romford, Mary Hide, in 1714, left £200, which was vested in a yearly rent charge of £10, out of a house and land at the Gores.  In consequence of the non-appropriation of this charity, for many years, there is now belonging to it £425 three per cent. Consols.  The rent charge and the dividends of the stock are given in apprentice fees of £10 each.  Mr. T. Mashiter and others, are the trustees.  A National School was built in Collier Row Ward, in 1848, and an Infant School at New Romford, in 1842.

REEDE'S ALMSHOUSES, for six poor men of Romford, Hornchurch, and Dagenham, and the widows of deceased inmates, were founded in 1482, by Roger Reede, who endowed them with several tenements, and 146A. 1R. 16P. of land, in the three above-named parishes, now let for about £410 per annum.  The founder built the Almshouses, which consist of six tenements for men, and a centre house for widows.   Each tenement has a garden; and the almspeople are appointed by the trustees, from among such poor of the three parishes as have seen better days.  One of the men is appointed as ruler, and has a yearly salary of £48. 15s., including the rent of Ridden Field, which is specifically given by the founder to the "ruler," for his trouble in