Burnley Church. The house and estate of Bank House did not 

 become Church property until thirty-six years afterwards, in 

 1732, so that there was no need for it to become the Parsonage 

 when one was already possessed. The cross part in front of the 

 house, which is said by Mr. Wilkinson to have been built by the 

 Rev. R. Kippax must necessarily have belonged to the Parsonage, 

 and not Bank House ; for Bank House was not bought for the 

 Church until nine years after Mr. Kippax's death, in 1723. 

 There is certainly a date on the head of the rain-pipe in front of 

 Bank House with the date 1721 thereon, which was during Mr. 

 Kippax's incumbency, but the initials " H.H.," shew the owner- 

 ship, Henry Halsted (the Rev. Henry Halsted, the generous 

 donor of a large part of the Grammar School Library). It is 

 not likely that the Incumbent would erect a substantial addition 

 to a building owned by someone else. The original Parsonage 

 was undoubtedly the building which stood by the banks of the 

 Brun, between the Court House in Keighley Green and the 

 River. The building was not wholly demolished thirty-five years 

 ago, and was known to old inhabitants of the town as the 

 " Old Parsonage." In 1800, we find from the Rate-book of that 

 year, that the old Parsonage House and Grounds were occupied 

 by one Luke Eastwood, a manufacturer (1 ac. r. 34|^p.) the 

 owner being stated as Dr. Collins, incumbent. Now in the 

 same book appears Mr. Rothwell as occupier of Bank House and 

 lands (80 ac. Or. 3^ p.) the owner being also Dr. Collins. The 

 clergy lived in neither house. In the early part of this century 

 two of the incumbents were non-resident, and the assistant- 

 curate, the Rev. J. Raws, who was also Master of the Grammar 

 School, lived first on Grammar School property, at a house next 

 to the Hall Inn — the White House — and then at a house described 

 in the Directory of 1824, as No. 1, Park Street. This house he 

 built for himself. The premises are now Bank Top Inn. In the 

 same year there resided at Bank House a Mr. Blake, teacher at 

 the Grammar School. The last occupant of the Old Parsonage 

 was Jeremiah Eastwood. Close by the site there subsequently 

 arose the Mills bearing the title " Parsonage Mills." That name 

 could not have been derived from the Bank House Parsonage. 

 And the street now called Massey Street was familiarly known as 

 Parsonage Street as it was the approach to the Parsonage. On 

 Merry weather's map of 1841, the street afterwards named Par- 

 sonage Street is marked Curzon Street. It is however called 

 Parsonage Street in the Ordnance map of 1851. The building 

 is shewn on Fishwick's map, 1827, and also on the Ordnance 

 map." 



Mr. Grant next gave illustrations of street names derived from 

 residences and public-houses. A great proportion of street names 

 repeated the Christian name or Surname of the lessee of the 



