The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-23 00:00:00

THE CHURCH.

On Monday last the Incorporated Society for Building,
Enlarging, &c., Churches and Chapels, held a meeting at
their chambers in St. Martin's-lane, to receive the reports of
the amount of the outstanding grants ; to give certificates of
the completion of the contracts for erecting; repairing, &c.,
several churches and chapels: and to receive the report of
the sub-committee as to the claim for aid from several
parishes.
Newell Connop, jun., Esq., (treasurer,) wss in the chair.
There were also present the Revs. H. H. Norris and Benja-
min Harrison, J. Round, Esq., M.P.. J. W. Bowden, S. F.
Wood, B. Harrison, William Davis, Wm. Cotton, Esq., &c.
After the Rev. Mr. Rodber (secretary) had read the report
of the sub-committee, the general committee proceeded to
consider the cases referred to them ; and voted grants for the
following purposes :—Towards re-pewing the church at Long
Stanton, in the county of Salop ; enlarging, by re-building,
the chapel at Kentish Town, in the parish of St. Pancras ;
towards building a chapel at North Moor-green, in the parish
of North Petherton, Somersetshire; re-pewing the church at
St. Sampson's, Cornwall ; re-pewing the church at Bromham ,
Wiltshire ; re-pewing the church of All Saints, Leicester ;
building a chapel at Brownedge, in the parish of Norton-in-
the-Moors, Staffordshire ; removing a gallery and erecting
new seats in the church of Hington, Cambridgeshire ; repair-
ing the church at Llanginnin, Carmarthenshire ; restoring a
ruined church at Llandevandoc, Monmouthshire; building a
church at Yeovil, Somersetshire. . _

It further appeared from the report that the population of
these 11 places is 151,239 persons, for whom church accom-
modation has now been provided to the extent of 21,850
sittings. Of these 5,066 are free ; and, with the assistance
of this society, 2,774 sittings will be added to the above
amount of church accommodation, of which 2,162 will be
free and unappropriated in perpetuity. One of these parishes
(St. Pancras, Middlesex) contains a population of 129,598
persons, with church accommodation for only 18,000 of that
vast multitude ! The united population of four other parishes
is 18,383 persons, with church room for only 3,050 of them.
The general committee then proceeded to examine the cer-
tificates sent in to prove the building, enlarging, repairing,
&c., of churches and chapels in 20 parishes. These were
found regular, approved, and the committee issued warrants
to the treasurer for the payment of the sum awarded in each
case.

The population of these 20 parishes is 36,189, persons, for
whom church accommodation to the extent of 8,721 sittings
was provided previously to the execution of the works, to-
wards which the society's aid, amounting to £2,725, was af-
forded, including 3,817 free and unappropriated seats. Six
of these places contain a population of 23,596 persons, with
sittings for only 5,960 of that number. To this very scanty
provision of church room 5,162 sittings have now been added ;
3,613 of which will, when completed, be free and unappro-
priated in perpetuity.
In conclusion, the treasurer reported that the amount of
outstanding grants is £48,505, while the sum in the society's
hands to liquidate this demand is only £41,806 ; showing a
deficiency of £6,699.