The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-01-09 00:00:00

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ST. JAMES'S CHURCH AND SCHOOLS,
CLITHEROB.
The Church Consecrated October, 1839.
The Tower and Gallery erected November, 1842.
The School., Enlarged November, 1842.
ORIGINAL DEBT, £990.

T.
HE kind Sympathy of the Christian Public is most
earnestly directed to the fact, that the entire respon-
sibility of the Debt incurred on behalf of St. James's
Church and Schools, situated in a Manufacturing Dis-
trict, in the poorest part of Clitheroe, is hanging over the
Minister, which so heavily weighs upon his mind as ne-
cessarily to retard the exercise of his ministerial labours.
ST. JAMES'S CHURCH AND SCHOOLS,
CLITHEROE,
_ _

Under the Acta of 1 and 2 William IV., cap. 38, and 1

arid 2 Victoria, cap. 107.
The case of St. James's Church and Schools, Clitheroe,
is submitted to the consideration of the friends of the
Church, and the cause of Religion, under a conviction
that the peculiar circumstances connected with them—the
original want of Church accommodation, the efforts made
to supply that want, and the blessing which has appeared
to rest upon those efforts,—may justify an Appeal to the
Public.

The population of Clitheroe, there is every reason to
suppose, amounts at this time to 7,000, for which the old
church offers barely 1,100 sittings, a proportion of which
are allotted to the inhabitants of three other townshi; s in
the same chapelry ; and the population (which has in-
creased to its present amount from 1,368, in 1801,) is in-
creasing in the same rapid rate, through thR activity and
extent of the manufacturing establishments. To provide
for this lamentable want, through the exertions of Dr.
Powell, and some other friends of true religion, St. James's
Church, containing 688 sittings, was built in the year
1839, at the end of Clitheroe, most remote from the paro-
chial chapel, in the immediate neighbourhood of factories
which employ not less than 1,700 hands, and within a
mile and a half of others, where more than 1,500 are em-
ployed. Seven-eighths of the congregation and commu-
nicants are of the labouring classes, principally young
people from these factories.
Owing to a deficiency of funds, the Church was left un-
finished ; but, in order to accommodate the increasing
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(250 within twelve months) has rendered the enlargement
and additional furnishing of the school-Louse indispensa-
ble.

In providing for this religious and educational destitu-
tion (although the services of the architect were given
gratuitously), a debt of £990 has been incurred, towards
liquidating which the moderate contributions are earnestly
solicited of those who have a stake in the peace and sta-
bility of the country, and who need not be reminded that
the removal of ignorance is the "cheapest defence of Mi.
tinny;" of those who feel an interest in the welfare of im-
mortal souls, and who wish that the operative classes.
whilst labouring in the concerns of time, should also make
provision for eternity.

X s. d.
Contributions already acknowledged.-- 281 19 0
From the Committee of Council on Educa-

tion, towards liquidating the debtof

schools
The Rev. W. Morgan, Well Hall, Clitheroe 10 0 0
T. Green, Esq., M.P.
W. Hanson, Esq., per Rev. W. Carus

Wilson
James Stranger, Esq., Keswick, per ditto. 2 0 0
Joshua Stranger, Esq., Keswick, per ditto. 1 0 0
Thomas Hankey, Esq., Fenchurch.street,
London .. ...... ...... • • 2 0 0
A Friend
A Churchman, per London Record ..
W. W. per ditto
Richard Hyde, Esq., Liverpool.
James Heyworth, Esq., Ditto, per Liver-
pool Standard

5 0 0

Further Contributions will be received by the Rey.
CHANCELLOR RAIKES, Chester; Rev. W. CARDS WIL-
SON, Casterton Park, Kirby Lansdale; Rev. HUGH
STOWELL, Salford, Manchester; Rev. W. MORGAN.
Well Hall, Clitheroe; HENRY THOMSON, Esq., Little
Moor, Clitheroe; or through the CRAVEN RANK, Burn-
ley, Settle, Skipton, or Clitheroe; as well as Messrs.
BARNARD, DIMSDALE, and Co., Bankers, 60, Cornl2lll,
London.