Ward & Lock's descriptive and pictorial guide to the Isle of Man ...

152 Guide to the Isle of Man.of the town, and is easily accessible to carriages, &c., fromall parts. A market is held every Saturday ; it is generallywell supplied with dairy and farm produce, sold at the stallsby farmers' wives and daughters, fresh faced, smartly dressed,and pushing their trade in the pleasantest manner possible.Fish, fresh caught and radiant in colour, is generally abundantand cheap.Passing down Waterloo Bond, on leaving the MarketPlace, we notice the Grammar School, erected in 18G4.The WcsleTjan Chapel, the premises of DitmhelVs BanTxingCo. {Limited), the Almshouses, or Mysore Cottages, erectedby Miss Cubbon, 1863, and several terraces in pleasantpositions, are also features in this locality.Churches, Chapels, Institutions, &c,, in Ramsey.The Church of St. Paul's, in the Market Place, waserected, in 1819, by public subscription, aided by a donationof £300 from the Church Building Society, and was enlargedand repaired in 1844, and again in 1874, and has frequentlybeen beautified since that year. A large new organ waserected in 1883, and a surpliced choir with cathedral serviceintroduced in 188M. All the seats are free and open. TheOld Cross Hall, t;icing Church Street, is the property of thechaplain of Eamsey. It is an ornament to what was formerlya bleak and fi'owsy square. The pretty little chapel, dedicatedto St. Mary, and commonly known as the Old Chapel,is at the foot of Albert or Frissell's Hill. Services are heldhere on Sunday afternoons from Whit Sunday until September.It is beautifully situated, and is crowded with thevisitors in the summer months. The burial-place usuallyreceives the bones of those who are not of Manx birth. Theservices are well conducted, and the choir of St. Paul'sgenei'ally "lead" the singing. In Sandy Road, in thenorthern part of the town, at the top of Bowring Street, isa pretty district church, St. Olavc's, built in 1801, andformerly' a chapel-of-ease to the parish of Lezayre.The Wcsleyan Chapel, in Waterloo Eoad, has alreadybeen mentioned. There is also a large meeting-house andschool near the Shipyard. The Boman Catholic Chapelstands on the Shore, and the Friviitive Methodist Chapel,in Chapel Lane, off Waterloo Road. The United PresbyterianChurch is in Albert Street, and the Seamen's Bethelat the west end of Parliament Street.llamscyis well supplied with both day and Sunday schools.The Grammar School, in Waterloo Eoad, is capable of ac-