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Data from the 'Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum' from the year 1842.
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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
Source=h:/!Genuki/RecordTranscriptions/WRY/WRYChCollection.txtData from the 'Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum' from the year 1842.
The place: MORLEY. Church dedication: ST. PETER.
Agbrigg wapentake, L.D. - Population, 3,819, vide Batley ; Chapel-room, 1,000 *1; Net value, £43. - Built under the Parliamentary grant. Architecture Gothic, with tower and spire ; first stone laid 25th June 1829 ; cost, £2,953. 2s. 6d. Made a district parish, under 58th Geo. III., cap. 45, sec. 16, but still in the parish of Batley for lay purposes. -Vide 11th and 12th Report of the Commissioners, page 5.Patrons, the Earls of Wilton and Cardigan, alternately.
Here was anciently a Church, which, during the Usurpation, got into the hands of Presbyterian trustees, and has never been restored to the Establishment.
Augmented, in 1831, with £600 from the Parliamentary grant, by lot ; in 1832, with £200, by lot ; and in 1833, with £200 from the Parliamentary grant, to meet benefaction of £200 from the Earl of Dartmouth.
An inclosure Act was passed 56th Geo. III.
No glebe house.
Parochial Charities and Register Books. -No return.
Post town: Dewsbury.
References:
Scatcherd's Morley. Loidis et Elmete, pages 237. 248.
Notes:
*1 Of which 424 are free sittings.
From the original book published by
George Lawton in 1842..
OCR and changes for Web page presentation
by Colin Hinson. © 2013.
George Lawton in 1842..
OCR and changes for Web page presentation
by Colin Hinson. © 2013.