BARR (GREAT), a chapelry in the parish of ALDRIDGE,
southern division of the hundred of OFFLOW,
county of STAFFORD, 3 miles (S. E.) from Walsall, containing
763 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy,
in the archdeaconry of Stafford, and diocese of
Lichfield and Coventry. The chapel is dedicated to St.
Margaret. John Addyes, in 1722, bequeathed property
for the erection and endowment of a free school for
thirteen boys, which by subsequent benefactions lias
been augmented for twenty, who receive an English
education and are clothed. There is also a girls' school,
supported by trifling bequests, in which five children are
taught to read, write, and sew.