The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-01 00:00:00

NEW CHURCHES

The twenty-first annual report of " Her Majesty's Com-
missioners, for Building New Churches," has just been issued.
The following is an abstract their last report, her ma-
jesty's commissioners stated, that 258 churches and chapels
had been completed, in which accommodation had been pro-
vided for 328,253 persons, including 182,479 free seats, ap-
propriated to the use of the poor. They have now to state,
that 23 churches have since been completed at the following
places, by the aid of grants from the funds placed at their
disposal, amongst which are the following :—At Stalybridge,
in the parish of Ashton-under-Lyne ; at Bretherton, in the
parish of Croston • at Scholes, in the parish of Wigan ; in
Every-street, in the parish of Manchester, and county of
Lancaster ; at Dukinfield, in the parish of Stockport, in the
county of Chester. In these 23 churches, accommodation
has been provided for 21,636 persons, including 10,933 free
seats for the use of the poor. Thus, in the whole, 281
churches and chapels have now been completed, and therein
provision has been made for 349,889 persons, including 193,412
free seats for the use of the poor. Her majesty's commis-
sioners beg further to report, that 16 churches are now in the
course of building, to the erection of which her majesty's
commissioners have contributed from the funds placed at
their disposal. The state of the works in each of tbese
churches (none of which are in this neighbourhood), on the
Ist of July, is fully detailed in the schedule accompanying
this report marked (A). Her majesty's commissioners have
further to report, that plans for 11 churches have been ap-
proved of, to be built, amongst other places, at Stretford, in
the parish of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster. Her
majesty's commissioners have under consideration plans for
six churches, to be built at other places. Her majesty's
commissioners have further to report, that they have made
conditional grants in aid of building churches and chapels at
the following places : amongst others, at Stretford, in the
parish of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster. A district
parish has been formed under the 21st section of the 58th of
George 111. c. 45, for St. Paul's Chapel, in the parish of
Warrington, in the county of Lancaster. Her majesty's
commissioners have under consideration the division of seve-
ral parishes, and the assignment of ecclesiastical districts ;
but, in consequence of some local difficulties, they are not
yet able to report their completion. Her majesty commis-
sioners have, since their last report, afforded, or expressed
their willingness to afford, the facilities, under the Church
Building Acts, for obtaining additional burial grounds for
Milnrow, in the parish of Rochdale ; Colton and Aughton,
in the county of Lancaster. They have also afforded, or ex-
pressed their willingness to afford, the same facilities for ob-
taining sites for new churches and chapels at Stacksteads,
and at Accrington, in Lhe parish of Whalley, in the county
of Lancaster. Also for chapels and parsonage-houses at
Tong, in the parish of Prestwich, in the county of Lancas-
ter. Her majesty's commissioners, under the powers vested
in them by the act of the 1 and 2 of William IV. c. 38, have
declared the patronage of a new-chapel built and endowed by
subscription at Litherland, in the parish of Sefton, in the
county of Lancaster (with a district to be assigned thereto),
to be vested in certain trustees ; of a new chapel built and en-
dowed by subscription at Wray, in the parish of Melling, in
the county of Lancaster (with a district to be assigned
thereto), to be vested in certain trustees. Her majesty's
commissioners have also to report, that they have under their
consideration the following, amongst other applications for
the perpetual patronage of new chapels, which it is proposed
to build and endow under the above-mentioned act; viz.,
from Henry Jenkins, Esq., and others, for the perpetual pa-
tronage of a new chapel which they propose to build and en-
dow at Rock Ferry, in the parish of Bebbington, in the
county of Chester, to be vested in the Lord Bishop of Ches-
ter and four other trustees; from John Gladstone, Esq., for
the perpetual patronage to himself and his heirs, of a new
chapel which he proposes to build and endow at Toxteth
Park, in the parish of Walton-on-the-Hill, in the county of
Lancaster.—Signed by 13 commissioners, and dated Church
Commissioners' Office, July 27th, 1841.