Data from the 'Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum' from the year 1842.

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

Data from the 'Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum' from the year 1842.

The place: PUDSEY.     Church dedication: ALL SAINTS.

Morley wapentake. - Population, 7,460, vide Calverley; Chapel-room, 2,000 *1; Net value, £158. -Archbishop Sharp says Mr. Brown, then the Curate, was nominated by the feoffees, with the approbation of the Vicar of Calverley ; the subsequent nominations in 1737, 1762, 1767, and 1814, seem to have been made by the Vicar alone.

The Chapel was founded before the Reformation, but a new one has been built under the Parliamentary grant.

Architecture Gothic, with tower and pinnacles. First stone laid 19th July 1821. Cost, £13,362. 8s. -Vide 4th Report, page 3.

The old Chapel is not taken down, but is disused.

In the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xviii. page 313, the Chapelry is recommended to be made a parish.

Augmented in 1733 with £200, to meet benefaction of £200 from Mr. Richard Hey and others ; in 1829 with £200, to meet benefactions of £100 from Colonel Tempest and others, and £100 from Mrs. Pyncombe's trustees; and in 1833 with £200 from the Parliamentary grant, to meet benefactions of £50 from the Rev. D. Jenkins, and £150 from Mr. Marshall's trustees.

An Inclosure Act was passed 51st Geo. III.

The glebe house is fit for residence.

A mortgage of £176 under Gilbert's Act, will cease in 1850.

The Register Books commence in 1813. The previous entries were at Calverley.

Charities:
Joseph Lepton's gift, by will, dated 6th November 1715. Rent of close, containing 4a. 3r. (after deducting £3 per annum for a Dissenting Minister), to poor persons legally settled in the township, but not receiving the town's allowance.

Jacob Simpson's charity, by will, dated in 1737. Interest of £100. This is applied by the Curate for the instruction in reading of seven poor children.

Mrs. Gibson's dole. Interest of £40 to the poor. Paid by the overseers.

Whiteley's rent-charge. 10s. per annum to the poor.

Gervoise Neville's gift, by will, dated 13th May 1726. Interest of £5 for the poor in bread. - Vide 17th Report, page 733.

Post town: Bradford.

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References:
Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. i. page 178. Notitia Parochialia, No. 994. Torre does not notice this Chapelry.

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Notes:
*1 Of which 756 are free sittings. In 1818, the return was 550.