RICHMOND:
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Robinson's Guide to Richmond (1833)
Part 3
Trinity Chapel
Trinity Chapel
IN the centre of the spacious Market-place, stands the TRINITY
CHAPEL, an uncouth looking building:- its origin is lost in the
mists of antiquity, but it is said to have been re-built about
the year 1360. In 1712 it ceased to be used as a place of worship,
and was for some years in a ruinous condition; but about 1744,
it was again repaired by the corporation, who claim the appointment
of the minister. The north aisle (which fronts the Marketplace)
is partitioned off, and used as the Consistory court for the archdeaconry
of Richmond. It may here be noticed, as a singular fact, that,
five hundred years ago, a kinsman of the well known Prince
Talleyrand de Perigord; was archdeacon of Richmond! Elias
Talleyrand was appointed to that dignity by the Pope in the year
1322: in his letters of collation, he is styled "germanus
nobilis viri Archambaudi comitis Petragoricensis," i.e. "the
cousin-german of the noble gentleman; Archambaud, count of
Perigord." In the list of archdeacons annexed to the history
of Richmond, he is, by a casual mistranslation, styled "a
German," without mentioning the Perigord family. At a little
distance is the Market Cross, erected in 1771; beneath it is a
reservoir, calculated to contain about twelve thousand gallons
of water, which is brought from Aislabeck spring, about two miles
distant, and distributed from this point to the different parts
of the town. Behind the Trinity chapel is the Guild, or Town-hall,
containing the court where the borough sessions are held; and
a spacious room used for public meetings, &c.
PASSING along French-gate, we come to the PARISH CHURCH:
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