Ryde Holy Trinity (Isle of Wight) Hampshire Family History Guide
Ryde Holy Trinity (Isle of Wight) is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Hampshire, created in 1846 from Newchurch Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Ryde Town
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1845
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include: Bible Christian Methodist, Christians, Independent/Congregational, Particular Baptist, Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
RYDE, a town, a parish, and a sub-district, in the Isle of Wight. The town stands on the coast, at the N terminus of the Isle of Wight railway, opposite Spithead, 5½ miles by water SSW of Portsmouth; was anciently called La Riche or La Rye; was a port and a watch-station in the time of Edward III.; was burnt by the French in 1377; went afterwards into decline; had a pop. of only about 220 in 1656, and of 1, 601 in 1811.
It is now the largest town in the island, a great resort of summer visitors and sea-bathers, a sub-port to Cowes, a coast-guard station, and the landing-place of about nine tenths of all the visitors to the island; communicates constantly by steamers with Portsmouth, Gosport, Southampton, Cowes, and Stokes Bay, and by railway with Brading, Sandown, Shanklin, and Ventnor; occupies the N and E faces of a moderately elevated hill, together with neighbouring plains and slopes.
It consists chiefly of streets running parallel with the shore, or at right angles, and generally well-built, wide, and clean; includes a suburb in the parish of St. Helens; enjoys charming environs, with pleasant views of the mainland shores and of the island’s hills.
It has a head post-office, a railway station with telegraph, two banking offices, seven chief hotels, very numerous lodging-houses, a good bathing beach, various bathing establishments, a profusion of boating appliances, an excellent pier, an esplanade, a town hall and market house, an assembly-room, a theatre, a royal arcade, a yacht club-house, three churches, six dissenting chapels, a Roman Catholic chapel, a public cemetery, a philosophical and scientific society, a young men’s Christian association, public libraries, national schools, and an infirmary.
The railway goes 12 miles southward to Ventnor; and was authorized in 1860, and opened in 1864.
The pier is 2, 250 feet long, and from 12 to 20 feet wide; was formed, in successive portions, from 1813 till 1861; and serves as a delightful promenade. The esplanade is a noble walk and drive, 1, 150 feet long; was completed in 1856; and has been somewhat injured, as to its amenity, by the formation of a small dock and landing-stage in connexion with the pier.
The town hall and market house were built in 1831, at a cost of £12, 583; and have an Ionic portico, on a plain Doric colonnade; and the town hall is in the upper part, and is used for public meetings, concerts, and balls. The assembly-room is over the town hall, and was constructed in 1867.
The royal arcade was built in 1835 at a cost of £12,000; but shows little correspondence of either appearance or capability to its cost.
The yacht club-house was built in 1847; and is noted for connexion with a splendid regatta about the middle of August.
Trinity church occupies a commanding site, on the brow of the hill; was built in 1845; is in the early English style; and has a tower and spire 146 feet high. St. Thomas’ church was built in 1827; St. James’ church, in 1829.
The Independent chapel was built in 1853: succeeded a previous chapel of 1816; and has a Corinthian portico, with stucco pillars. The new Baptist chapel was built in 1862, and is in the early English style. The Roman Catholic chapel was built in 1845, at the expense of the Countess of Clare; and is in an elaborate variety of the early English style. The public cemetery was formed in 1842, and enlarged in 1862.
The philosophical society’s rooms were originally national schools; and include a library, a reading-room, and a museum. The young men’s Christian Association rooms are in a building erected in 1867; and include class-rooms, news-room, and libraries. The infirmary is on the road to Ashey, and has accommodation for 50 patients.
Markets are held on Tuesdays and Fridays, and a fair on 5 July. Pop. of the town in 1851, 7, 147; in 1861, 9, 269. Houses, 1, 734. Pop. of the St. Helens portion in 1861, 161.
The parish was disjoined from Newchurch in 1864; and includes Swanmore and Haven-Street. Acres and property, returned with Newchurch. Pop. in 1868, about 12, 500.
The manor was originally part of Ashey manor; became separate in 1565; was then purchased by A. Dillington; and went by sale, in 1704, to the family of Player.
The living of St. Thomas is a vicarage, and the livings of Trinity and St. James are p.curacies, in the diocese of Winchester. Value of St. T., £112; of the others, not reported. Patron of St. T., the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol; of T., the Vicar; of St. J., the Proprietor.
The p. curacies of Swanmore and Haven-Street also are separate benefices.
The sub-district contains also five other parishes. Acres, 17, 894. Pop. in 1851, 14, 228; in 1861, 17, 715. Houses, 3, 491.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Hampshire
- Civil Registration District: Isle of Wight
- Probate Court: Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Winchester
- Diocese: Winchester
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1850 – Isle of Wight, Post-1849 – East Medine
- Poor Law Union: Isle of Wight
- Hundred: East Medina Liberty
- Province: Canterbury