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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: CLECKHEATON. Church dedication: SAINT JOHN.
Morley wapentake. -Population, 2,317, vide Birstal ; Chapel-room, 500 *1; Net value, £125. -Patron, Miss F. M. R. Currer.The Parliamentary Commissioners recommended that Cleckheaton, Hangsworth, and Wyke, be united, and made a parish. -Vol. xviii. page 300.
Augmented, in 1732, with £200, to meet benefaction of a house sold for £140 from Mrs. Sarah Bowerman, and £200 from Richard Richardson, Esq.; in 1777, with £200, by lot ; in 1782, with £200, to meet benefaction of £200 from W. Richardson, Esq., who confirmed a deed of gift made by his brother, Richard Richardson, Esq.; in 1812, with £400 from the Parliamentary grant, by lot ; and, in 1834, with £600 from the same grant, by lot.
The old Chapel was enlarged, under a faculty granted 26th February 1820; but a new Chapel has been built under the Parliamentary grant : architecture Gothic, with a tower : will accommodate 603 persons ; free seats, 307: first stone laid 3rd March 1830. Cost, £2,387. 8s. -Vide 12th Report, page 3.
An Inclosure Act was passed 35th Geo. III.
No glebe house.
The Register books, for baptisms and burials, commence in 1761.
Parochial Charities. -No return.
Post town: Bradford.
References:
Whitaker's Loidis et Elmete, page 248. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. i. page 179.
Notes:
*1 800 additional sittings (of which 300 are free) have been procured, towards which the Society made a grant of £450.
George Lawton in 1842..
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