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The Convent of the Poor Sisters of
Nazareth is in a large brick building on the south side of the road. This
was built in 1857 for the convent purposes. It is the mother-house of
the Nazareth nuns, so that the numbers continually vary, many passing
through for their noviciate. The nuns collect alms for the aged poor and
children, and many of the poor are thus sustained. Besides this, there
are a number of imbecile or paralytic children who live permanently in
the convent. The charity is not confined to Roman Catholics.
The Latymer Foundation School is a plain brick building standing a
little back from the highroad. It bears the Latymer arms, and a cross in
stone over the doorway, as well as the date of the foundation. The
Latymer charity was established in 1824 by the will of Edward
Latymer. He left several pieces of land in the hands of trustees, who
were to apply the rents to the following uses:
"To elect and choose eight poor boys inhabiting Hammersmith within
the age of twelve and above the age of seven, and provide for every boy
a doublet and a pair of breeches of frieze or leather, one shirt, one pair
of stockings, and a pair of shoes on the 1st of November; and also to
provide yearly, against Ascension Day, a doublet and a pair of breeches
of coarse canvas lined, and deliver the same unto the said boys, and
also a shirt, one pair of stockings, and a pair of shoes; and that on the
left sleeve of every poor boy's doublet a cross of red cloth or baize
should be fastened and worn; and that the feofees should cause the boys
to be put to some petty school to learn to read English till they attain
thirteen, and to instruct them in some part of God's true religion. The
allowance of clothing to cease at thirteen. And that the feofees shall
also elect six poor aged men of honest conversation inhabiting
Hammersmith, and provide for every one of them coats or cassocks of
frieze or cloth, and deliver the same upon the 1st of November in every

year, a cross of red cloth or baize to be fastened on the left sleeve; and
that yearly, on Ascension Day, the feofees should pay to each man ten
shillings in money."
To this charity were added various sums from benefactors from time to
time, and the number of recipients was increased gradually, until in
1855 there were 100 boys and 45 almsmen. At that date the men's
clothing consisted of a body coat, breeches, waistcoat, hat, pair of boots,
stockings, and shirt one year, and the next, great-coat, breeches, pair of
boots, stockings, shirt, and hat. The boys received coat, waistcoat, and
trousers, cap, pair of stockings, shirt, pair of bands, pair of boots. Also
on November 1, cap, pair of stockings, shirt, pair of bands, and pair of
boots. At present part of the money is given in alms, and the rest is
devoted to the Lower Latymer School and the Upper Latymer School,
built 1894, situated in King Street West.
At the back of the Latymer Foundation, in Great Church Lane, is the
Female Philanthropic Society. The object is for the reformation of
young women convicted for a first offence or addicted to petty
pilfering.
Opposite is a recreation-ground and St. Paul's parochial room, a small
temporary iron building. In King's Mews, Great Church Lane, Cipriani,
the historical painter and engraver, lived at one time. He died here in
1785. The entrance to Bradmore House, the oldest house in
Hammersmith, is in the lane. The grounds stretch out a long way
eastward, and one or two old cedars are still growing here. The eastern
portion of the house has a fine front with fluted pilasters, with Ionic
capitals running up to a stone parapet surmounted by urns. The
windows are circular-headed, and those over the central doorway
belong to a great room, 30 feet by 20, and 20 in height. The house,
though much altered, is in its origin part of a very old building named
Butterwick House, built by Edmund, third Baron Sheffield and Earl of
Mulgrave, about the latter end of Queen Elizabeth's reign. The name
was taken from a village in Lincolnshire where the Sheffield family had
long lived. This Earl of Mulgrave was grandfather of John, Duke of
Buckingham. He died in 1646, and is buried in the church. The estate

probably passed from the Sheffield family soon after his death, for in
1653 the manor-house or farm of Butterwick, called the Great House,
"passed to Margaret Clapham, wife of Christopher Clapham and widow
of Robert Moyle, and her son Walter Moyle after her." In 1677 it was
conveyed by Walter Moyle