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 Guardiun.)
Most of our readers are aware that the parsh of Man-
chewer is a very extensive one ; comprising an area of
34,507 statute acres, and containing thirty townships (of
which the ptincipal are Manchester, Salford. Chorlton-
on-Medlock, Hulme, and Ardwick), and 353,390 inha-
bitants. Its ecclesiastical government is vested in the
dean and chapter of Manchester; and the whole parish,
up to the passing of a recent ac.., has hitherto been main-
tained intact, note ithstanding its great extent and immense
population. An act was pa.sed, however, in July, 1843,
(6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 37.) the ninth clause of which,
recognising the existence of large distrc's 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
less 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
;" arid such church or chapel to be the church of
such new parish. Thereupon it is to be lawful to publish
banns of matrimony, 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 elapse enacts,
that on the di-trict becoming a parish, the minister shall
become perpetual curate of the new parish. 'Tile seven-
tentk, t.at two churchwardens, " timbers of the united
Church of England and lieland,' 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
'2l relate to the patronage to these new churches ; and the
24th section enacts that the church-buldine, commission..
era may make grants for the purposes of this act. Then,
another short act (chiefly explanatory of the former) was
passed, on the 9th August last, (7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 94,)
the first clause of which enacts that the crown, may no-
minate the minister or perpetual curate; and the 9th
clause gives power to vary the bounds of districts within
a limited time.

Dec. 3, 1814

Under these statutes the new parish of St. Barnsbat,
Manchester, has been severed from the parish of Mgr'
cheater, for ecclesiastical purposes, and erected intoar!l
parish, with a church, perpetual curate, and immunities
of its own. As this is not only the first slice taken fr?m
the parish of Manchester, but as it is also the first crest
of a new parish under the acts noticed,
we may bpeE
notice the circumstances of this remarkable change low

ecclesiastical constitution of parishes.
council of the 7th ult., containing a scheme praPase
the ecclesiastical commissioners, dated the 1311 i A" „
In the Gazette of the 221 ult. appeared an ordedebi;
last, for constituting a separate district for spiritual. pa',
poses, out of the district of St. George, in the partsbe!
Manchester. This scheme, after citing the acts, 61
forth that the district of Sr. 'George is of
contains a large population, and that the provis'°l!_ if
public worship and pastoral superintendence thereat d
insufficient for the spiritual wants of the inhabitants;
.11°0
that the part'cular part described did not then cointleol
wi, bin its limits any consecrated church or chap in 0,
for the purpose of divine worship. The coternissi°n'rhi
therefore, (with the consent of the Bishop of Chester, w
had signed and sealed the scheme,) recommend that,l6
that part of St. George's district described in the sehe.agual
annexed, be constituted a separate district for sPir',.taset,
Purposes, to be named " The District of St. Barnsu
great extept Tr
Manchester." They further recommend, in mder
manently to endow the minister, that they (the cornand
sinuers) pay him yearly £lOO, and the further sure
.£3O on any building being licensed by the bishop ferric";
performance of divine service ; and so oon as aC" j§.
or chapel should have been approved of by the eaint;,o
sioners and consecrated, and such district should no,
thereby become a new parish for ecclesiastical Paroo:„f,
the commissioners to pay its perpetual curate £lsoatvLo
The scheme further states, that as £1666 138.4 d. bed t 0
contributed to such permanent endowment, and 1nu,•41
the commissioners, and a church had been erected 0;11;
they were satisfied was fit to be approved by theme
gir
t
and consecrated by the bishop, and the coentnissi°°`be
recommend that the nomination of perpetual curate to
district or new parish of St. Barnabas shall be x, erel.
by five gentlemen named, as trustees of such right of le
tronage and nomination. The schedule then sets oat,
boundaries of the district or new parish of St. BarnauPe
The order in council states that the draft of the SchelDt
has been transmitted to the incumbents and patrols
the parish of Manchester, who have consented to sic
scheme; ; that it has been approved by her NlnjestY
council; and having been ratified by hot. Majesty, itb,
declared to he effectual in law immediately after its Pm
lication in the London Gazette. It is also directed t,b1,8.
this order in council be registered by the registrar of "-
diocese of Chester.
This is the first case in which an endowment has been,
granted and a parish assigned, and the right of patrosag,
perpetually vested in trustees, under the acts to which
have alluded. In all other cases where parishes have
been divided, the nomination has either remained withwe,
crown, with the patrons, or with the incumbents of tb
original er mother parish church.
The church of St. Barnabas has been erected near the
south-east corner of the new parish, adjoining Elizaeo
and Rodney-streets. It has been chiefly erected by
" Association for the purpose of erecting ten churches',
which society contributed to the amount of £3OOO fort hil
purpose. Other friends, however, have also come renal::
liberally with donations of money, or materials; and i
less
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estimated that the church will probably cost not
1
altogether than about £5OOO. The edifice is in
early Norman style of architecture, and win accommodst-
nearly 1100 persons ; and it is intended that of these 03°re
than oue-half viiirbe provided with free sittings rand t 10,:
remainder of the pews will be let at low rentals to the ill.
habitants of the parish.
The trustees have selected the Rev. Henry Deck forth°.
pastorship of the new parish.