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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: ST JOHN'S IN THE WILDERNESS. Church dedication: IN ERRINGDEN, ALIAS TURNAY CHAPEL.
Morley wapentake. -Population, vide Halifax ; Chapel-room, 500; Net value, £76.Patron, the Vicar of Halifax.
Consecrated 13th October 1815.
The Chapel stands in a remote and obscure valley, in the Chapelry of Sowerby, which was formerly the retreat of a gang of coiners. It has no district assigned.
Augmented, in 1817, with £1,600 from the Parliamentary grant, by lot.
There is a glebe house fit for residence.
No registers previous to 1821.
Post town: Halifax.
References:
Whitaker's Loidis et Elmete, page 393.
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.