ROLVENDEN, a parish in the hundred of ROLVENDEN,
lathe of SCRAY, county of KENT, 2 miles
(S. "W. by W.) from Tenterden, containing 1403 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury, rated in the
king's books at £ 10, endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and & 500 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage
of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester. The
church, dedicated to St. Mary, is principally in the
later style of English architecture, and has lately received
an addition of two hundred and twenty sittings,
of which one hundred and forty are free, the Incorporated
Society for the enlargement of churches and cha-
pels having granted £200 towards defraying the expense.
-There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
Major John Gibbon, in 1707, bequeathed property
amounting to £921.4. three per cent, consols., producing
£27. 2. 9., for teaching and apprenticing poor
children of both sexes.