The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-03 00:00:00

THE NEW PARISH OF ST. BARNABAS.

(Abridged from the Manchester Guardian.)
Most of our readers are aware that the parish of Man-
chester is a very extensive one ; comprising an area of
34,507 statute acres, and containing thirty townships (of
which the principal are Manchester, Salford. Chotlton-
on-Nledlock, Hulme, and Ardwick), and 353,390 inha-
bitants. Its ecclesiastical governm:nt is vested in the
clean and chapter of Manchester; and the whole parish,
up to the passing of a recent ac', has hitherto been main-
tained intact, notes ithstanding its great extent and immense
population. An act was passed, however, in July, 1843,
(6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 37,) the ninth clause of which,
recognising the existence of large districts in which the
provision for public worship and pastoral superintendence
was insufficient for the spiritual wants of the inhabitants,
enacts, that the ecclesiastical commissioners, with the
consent of the bishop of the diocese, may constitute such
districts, having no consecrated church or chapel in use,
separate districts for spiritual purposes, provided that the
minister of such district be permanently endowed with not
1,-iss than £lOO ; and, if of less value than £l5O, to be in.
creased to that sum, at the least, so soon as the district
shall have become a new parish. The fifteenth clause
enacts, that when any church or chapel shall be built,
purchased, or acquired, in such district, such district
shall, from and after the consecration of such church or
chapel, be deemed to be a new parish for ecclesiastical
purposes, and shall be known as such by the name of
" the new parish of ," instead of "the district of
;" and such church or chapel to be the church of
such new parish. Thereu pen it is to be lawful to publish
banns of ma, rimony, and to solemnise marriages, bap-
tisms, churchings, and burials; receiving fees thereon,
(except for baptisms,) to be fixed by the chancellor of the
diocese, and the like Easter offerings and dues as, before
the separation, were payable to the incumbent of the
principal parish church. The sixteenth clause enacts,
that on the di-trict becoming a parish, the minister shall
become perpetual curate of the new parish. Tile seven-
tent°, teat two churchwardens, " members of the united
Church of England and Ireland," shall be chosen ; one
by the perpetual curate and the other by the inhabitants
of the new parish, within twenty-one days from the con-
secration of the church. The 19th clause provides for the ,
endowment or augmentation of income of the minister or
perpetual curate, and gives an annual sum as compensation
to the incumbent of the mother church. Clauses 20 and
21 relate to the patronage to these new. churches ; and the
24th section enacts that the church-hu ldin4 commission-
-odi
thatda 8
o the Victoria,
diitrcrown
i districts
ts cap.
commission-
ers may make grants for the purposes of this act. Then,
another short act (chiefly explanatory of the former) was
clausep theas
firsted 'g iovenleastuhp:oe 9wothr whichAtou Svualrs yt enactslast,
th u b
(7
u
limited time. may
ay
no-
minate the minister or perpetual curate; and the 9th
within

Dec. 3, 1844.

lUnder these statutes the new parish of St. Bartishat
Manchester, has been severed from the parish of MO:
► Chester, for ecclesiastical purposes, and erected into& new
1 parish, with a church, perpetual curate, and immunitie
of its own. As this is not only the first slice taken froth_
the parish of Manchester, but as it is also the first creatip
t of a new parish under the acts noticed, we may brisql
notice the circumstances of this remarkable change intle
ecclesiastical constitution of parishes. ift
council of the 7th ult., containing a scheme proposedZ
last, for constituting a separate district for spiritual poi
the ecclesiastical commissioners, dated the 13th Aug....,
In the Gazette of the 22d ult. appeared an order
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poses, out of the district of St. George, in the parish
Manchester. This scheme, after citing the acts, sets'ad
forth that the district of St. George is of great extent's, r
contains a I.rge population, and that the provision for
public worship and pastoral superintendence therein
insufficient for the spiritual wants of the inhabitants; lit.
that the part!cular part described did not then COntusui
wihin its limits any consecrated church or chapel in so
pro,
for the purpose of divine worship. The coremiss'°°;ho
therefore, (with the consent of the Bishop of C
had signed and sealed the scheme,) recommend that
all
that part of St. George's district described in the sc",e.tti-id
annexed, be constituted a separate district for sinrib`ar,
purposes, to be named " The District of St. Barna er.
Manchester." They further recommend, in order Pis.
manently to endow the minister, that they (the c°l3/r9ef
siosers) pay him yearly £lOO, and the further suulthe
£3O on any building being licensed by the bishop foru
performance of divine service ; and so :oon as a ch
or chapel should have been approved of by the 001810
sionsrs and consecrated, and such district should er
thereby become a new parish for ecclesiastical PueP°'' :
the commis-inners to pay its perpetual curate Xlsoate,lo
The scheme further states, that as £1666 13s. 4d. hed,,ats
contributed to such permanent endowment, and Pa'"•,4l
the commissioners, and a church had been erected I,
they were s,tisfied was fit to be approved by themsel 7,
hester, t
and consecrated by the bishop, and the commissi"ebe
recommend that the nomination of perpetual curate tot
district or new parish of St. Barnabas shall be eserci,7
by five gentlemen named, as trustees of such right of
tronage and nomination. The schedule then sets out,..g.t'
boundaries of the district or new parish of St. Barn
The order in council states that the draft of the sehOld
has been transmitted to the incumbents and patrons
the parish of Manchester, who have consented to Oro
scheme ; that it has been approved by her Moiest,/,11
council ; and having been ratified by h.n. Majesty
declared to be effectual in law immediately after its Ptir
lication in the London Gazette. It is also directed ti,l7
diocese ,
This
this order in council be registered by the registrar Of
first
is the o f Chester.case in which an endowment has bees
granted and a parish assigned, and the right of patrouge,
perpetually vested in trustees, under the acts to which",
have alluded. In all other cases where parishes
been divided, the nomination hay either remained withl,"6
crown, with the patrons, or with the incumbents Of "
original er mother parish church.
The church of St. Barnabas has been erected near the
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south-east corner of the new parish, adjoining Eliss.,eke
and Rodney-streets. It has been chiefly erected bY it
liberally with " Association for the purpose of erecting ten churches,' I
which society contributed to the amount of £3OOO for
w thOtherdouat friends,donations
uhf however, ee
yr have e also
materials;co m
and
e fursi
estimated that the church will probably cost net less
altogether than about £5OOO. The edifice is in_Ltes
early Norman style of architecture, and wi accoranwu-,..
nearly 1100 persons ; and it is intended that of theseru%';
than one-half will be provided with free sittings; end
remainder of the pews will be let at low rentals to the"'
habitants of the parish.
The trustees have selected the Rev. Henry Deck fortl/6
pastorship of the new parish.