190 History of the 



In the year 1837, Bacup was made a Consolidated Chapelry, 

 with the provision that on the death of the then Incumbent of 

 Newchurch, the Rev. Edward Burrow, the fees payable thereto 

 should cease. 



Upwards of 7000 interments had taken place in the Churchyard 

 of St. John's, to the date of its being closed in 1863. 



About twenty-five years ago, during the Incumbency of the Rev. 

 J. F. Brindle, the building having become dilapidated and unsafe, 

 an attempt was made to obtain subscriptions for the erection of a 

 new Church on a site a short distance away from the existing one. 

 The effort, however, resulted in failure, and although the founda- 

 tions of the proposed new structure were actually laid, they had 

 ultimately to be abandoned. More recently in 187 1, the roof of 

 the building fell in. The Rev. A. Phillips having become Vicar 

 in 1877, a subscription was set on foot, and this proving successful 

 the old walls were taken down and the present handsome Church, 

 at a cost of ;^i 5,000, erected on or about the original site, was 



the increase in the value of the estates that they (the trustees) were enabled 

 to allow the sum of £220 a-year to each exhibitioner, provided he resided 

 in the college from the beginning to the end of Michaelmas term, unless 

 specially permitted to leave ; and they were also empowered to purchase 

 houses, lands, &c., to the amount of ;^5ooo. It was further enacted that the 

 trustees should be one body politic and corporate, by the title of ' The 

 Trustees of the estate devised by William Hulme, Esq.,' and might use a 

 common seal, on which should be engraved the coat of Arms borne by the 

 said William Hulme, and round which should be inscribed the words, 

 ' SigiUum Hulmianum.' 



" In 1826 the accumulated funds which had arisen from the surplus rents 

 and profits, seem to have amounted to £42,203 os. 4d., and the annual 

 dividend produced the sum of ;£3,828. The trustees were subsequently 

 authorised to apply part of the accumulation to the purchase of Advowsons of 

 Livings, and to present thereto the exhibitioners on the foundation ; the sum 

 paid for the purchase of any one advowson or right of patronage not to 

 . exceed ;f70oo; and they are also allowed to expend to the amount of ;£70o 

 in the erection of a suitable parsonage for the incumbent. An exhibitioner, 

 to be eligible, must have taken his degree of Bachelor of Arts in the 

 University of Oxford, and have entered into holy orders." 



