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in the church, are of very beautiful oak handsomely
carved; divine service is performed here twice every
day; and a lecturer, who is also master of the endowed
school, receives £100 per ann. from the corporation, as
trustees of a bequest by Bishop Milles, for the endow-
ment of lectureships at St. Olave’s and St. Patrick’s.
The parishes of St. Patrick, St. Peter, and St. Stephen,
of which the livings are curacies, are united to the vicar-
ages of St. John Within and Without, together com-
prising one-third of the city, and constituting the corps
of the archdeaconry of Waterford, in the patronage of
the Bishop: the income is derivable from, minister’s
money. The church of St. Patrick, the only one in the
union, is a plain neat building, situated on elevated
ground to the west of the city: the Ecclesiastical Com-
missioners have recently granted £576 for its repair.
The churches of St. John, St. Stephen, St. Peter, and
St. Michael long since fell to ruins. There are four R.
C. chapels, of which the principal, situated in Barron-
Strand-Street, was erected in 1793, on ground given by
the corporation, nearly opposite a former chapel, which
had been built about a hundred years previously, and
was the first ever erected in the city; it is a very
large building, and was erected at an expense of
£20,000, raised chiefly by collections of pence at the
chapel doors: the front, which will be of the Ionic
order, is not yet completed; the interior is remarkable
for the lightness and elegance of its style; the spacious
roof is supported on ranges of columns of the Corin-
thian order; a considerable addition is at present being-
made to it. In this chapel are preserved and used, on
the day before Easter-Sunday, some rich dresses sup-
posed to have been presented by Pope Innocent III. to
the cathedral of Waterford; the plate also is of the
most rich and valuable kind. There are two tablets in
the interior, to the memory of Dr. Power and the late
Dr. Patrick Kelly, and one on the exterior wall of the
chapel to the memory of Dr. Hussey, all R. C. bishops
of Waterford, There are places of worship for Bap-
tists, the Society of Friends, Independents, Methodists,
and Presbyterians.
The Blue-Coat school was founded for the gra-
tuitous instruction of boys by Bishop Foy, who died
in 1707; after appropriating several legacies, among
which was one of £20 to the poor of Waterford, and
another of as much of the sum of £800 expended
on the episcopal palace, as might be recovered from
his successor in the see, for apprenticing Protestant
children, the bishop bequeathed the remainder of his
property for the establishment of a school for the gra-
tuitous instruction of Protestant children in reading,
writing, and the principles of the Protestant religion.
He fixed the number of children at 50, and the salary of
the master at £40, and that of the catechist at £10,
with liberty to increase the number of children and the
amount of salary in equal proportion: the appointment
of the master and catechist is vested in the Bishop of
Waterford; that of the children in the mayor, three of
the aldermen, and the sheriffs, subject to the approval
of the bishop. The executors erected a handsome
school-house at the corner of Barron-Strand-street, on
land granted them by the corporation, and with the re-
mainder of the funds purchased lands then of the yearly
value of £191. 2.2.; the endowment was, on the death of
the bishop’s sister, augmented with £48 per annum;
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the number of boys was encreased to 75, and the salary
of the master to £60, and that of the catechist to £15.
An act of parliament was subsequently obtained by the
Rev. Nathaniel France, the only surviving executor, for
perpetuating and regulating the charity, and the endow-
ment was vested in him for life, and after his decease in
the bishop, dean, and mayor of Waterford for the time
being; the act also provided that the excess of income,
after payment of the salaries, £5 to a collector, and the
expenses of keeping the school-house in repair, should
be applied to the clothing of the children, and if any
surplus remained, to apprenticing the boys. In 1808
another act was obtained, by which the trustees were
enabled to sell the school-house in Barron-Strand-street
and to erect another on a more convenient site, and to
raise the salary of the master to £100 and that of the
usher to £50. The funds having increased by the de-
termination of leases and the accumulation of savings
to the amount of £4900, the trustees resolved to board
and lodge the masters, children, and servants of the in-
stitution in the school-house. The school was soon
afterwards established on the lands of Grantstown,
in the vicinity, in a recently erected house which, by
numerous additions to the original building, has been
rendered sufficiently commodious for the purpose. The
estates of the charity consist of 1400 acres of land, with
two or three small plots of ground in the city. The
Blue-Coat school for girls was erected in 1740, at
an expense of £750, by Mrs. Mary Mason: it is a
plain building, with the arms of the Mason family in
front, and was originally designed for clothing and in-
structing 30 girls till of age to be put out to service,
the expense being defrayed by an annuity of £60
paid by the corporation, to whom the Mason family
bequeathed £900 for that purpose. In 1784, Coun-
sellor Alcock left £1000 to this charity, the interest
of which sum is expended in apprenticing the most
deserving of the children. An endowed school in the
parish of St. Olave is under the patronage of the cor-
poration, who give a school-house and residence for
the master, who is also lecturer of St. Olave’s, and re-
ceives from the corporation for both appointments a sal-
ary of £100 per annum. A school at Newtown, near the
city, was established in 1798, for the education of chil-
dren, belonging to the Society of Friends of the pro-
vince of Munster; the average number of both sexes is
about 50, and the usual course of instruction compre-
hends an English education, with the Latin and French
languages. The school-house is large and commodious;
there is an extensive play-ground, and the premises are
well adapted to the purpose. The national school in
St. Patrick’s contains in one establishment 150 boys,
and in another from 90 to 100 girls, and is supported
by subscription, aided by a grant of £12 per ann. to
the boys’ and of £10 to the girls’ school; there are also
several Sunday schools in connection with the Kildare-
place Society. There are numerous R. C. schools, of which
the principal is the college of St. John, in Manor-
street, erected by the Rt. Rev. Dr. Power, for the edu-
cation of young men for the R. C. ministry; attached to it
is a lay school for boarders and day scholars. The build-
ing is plain but spacious and commodious, and adjoin-
ing it are extensive gardens and pleasure grounds. The
greater number of the R. C. clergy of the united dioceses of
Waterford and Lisrnore go through their courses of hu-