Contents. xv 



Patrons — Incnmbent — Lumb constituted an Ecclesiastical District by 

 Order in Council — Christ Chnrcb — Cost of erection — Patron — Conse- 

 cration — Incumbent — St. James's Church, Waterfoot — Date of opeuir.g 

 — Of consecracion — Cost of erection — Patrons — Incumbent — St. 

 Saviour's Church, Baoup — Date of consecration — Incumbent — 

 Baptistery for Adults — School — Parsonage — Patron — St. Anue'a 

 Church, Edgeside — Chief contributors — Patrons and Vicar — Church of 

 St. John the Divine, Cloughfold — Principal contributors — Patrons and 

 Vicar, . . . . . .Pp. 185-196 



CHAPTER IV. 



The New Church originally Eoman Catholic — Goodshaw original Church 

 the same — Dispersion of Catholics at the Reformation — The Booth 

 family re-iutroduoe Catholicism into Eossendale — Early meeting places 

 of the Catholics — First resident Priest — Church at Constablee, Eaw- 

 tenstall — Opening ceremony— List of Inoumbents^-St. Mary's Church, 

 Bankside, Bacup — Incumbents, . . . Pp. 1&7-200 



CHAPTER V. 



The Baptist denomination in Rossendalo — Bacup at the end of the 17th 

 century— No place of worship in Bacup prior to the establishment of 

 the Baptist denomination in Eossendale — William Mitchel and David 

 Crossley — Their character and labours — Mitchel taken prisoner uuder 

 the Conventicle Act — Crossley, the friend of Bunyau and Wbitefield — 

 Lawrence Britliffe executed at Lancaster — The United Congregations 

 of Bacup and Cloughfold — The Old School, Bacup, erected for the use 

 of the Protestant Dissenters— Trust-deed of the Building — Deed of 

 admission — Henry Lord and Joseph Piccop, successors to D. Crossley — 

 Erection of the "Now Meeting House" — Extracts from the Building 

 Accounts — Chapel rebuilt in 1778— Gallery erfeoted in 1783 — Again 

 taken down and rebuilt in 1811 — Cloughfold Section of the Baptist 

 Church in Eossendale — Writings belonging to the same — Endowments 

 — Baptist Chapel at Lnnib — Musical skill of the inhabitants of the 

 Lumb and Dean Valleys — John Nuttall — -Removal to Goodshaw — 

 Other Baptist Chapels in Eossendale — Baptist Churches which have 

 sprung from those in the district — Table, showing present position of 

 Baptist denomination in Eossendale — Sketch of Joseph Piccop — John 

 Hirst, forty-two years minister at Bacup, . . Pp. -201-213 



