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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: HECKMONDWICK. Church dedication: CHAPEL.
Morley wapentake. -Population, 2,793, vide Birstal ; Chapel-room, 689 *1; Net value, £30 -Patron, the Vicar of Birstal. Impropriators, Trinity College, Cambridge.Built under the Parliamentary grant.
Architecture Gothic, with tower and spire. First stone laid 3rd March 1830. Cost, £2,574. 10s. 6d.
No district has yet been assigned. -Vide 11th Report, page 3.
No return as to registers.
No glebe house.
Charities:
Joshua Wood's charity, by will, in 1734. Rent of one acre of land, laid out in bread on St. Thomas's day.James Shipley's charity, by will, in 1719. Interest of £10, laid out in bread. -Vide 17th Report, page 722.
Post town: Dewsbury.
Notes:
*1 Of which 324 are free sittings-Vide Report of the Church-Building Commissioners. -In 1834, the return of Chapel-room was 700.
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.