T92 History of the 



The Trustees of the Church are James Maden Holt, G. W. 

 Law-Schofield, Edmund Lord, Richard Hoyle Hardman, and 

 George Hardman, Esquires. 



Tunstead Church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was built 

 through the efforts of the late Robert Munn and late George 

 Ormerod, and was opened by License in the month of November, 

 1840. Consecrated September 29, 1841. The Trustees of the 

 living are the Bishop of Manchester, the Chancellor of the Diocese, 

 James Maden Holt, Esq., and the Heir of the late Frank Ormerod, 

 Esq. 



The following have been the Incumbents or Vicars since its 

 foundation : 



Eev. Francis Kirkpatrick, M.A., Trinity College, Dublin, 1841, 

 left in 1846. 



Rev. WiUiam Singleton, M.A., 1846, left in 1851. . 



Rev. John G. Haworth, 185 1, left 1889. 



Rev. John Falconer, present Vicar, 1889. 



In 1858 a District was assigned to this Church. 



There are large modern schools connected with the Church, in 

 which an endeavour is made to keep abreast of the educational 

 requirements of the day ; there is cooking for the girls and manual 

 instruction for the boys. The Vicar has also succeeded, largely 

 through the generosity of J. W. Lloyd, Esq., and J. H. Maden, 

 Esq., M.P., in establishing a cottage accident hospital in the 

 village. 



Lumb was constituted an Ecclesiastical district, and its 

 boundaries defined, by an Order in Council dated 24th February, 

 1846. The corner-stone of the church was laid on the 29th of 

 September, 1847, by John Hargreaves, Esq., of Blackburn, who 

 gave the site for the church and burial ground. A plate bearing 

 the following inscription was placed in the stone : " Gloria in 

 Excelsis. The corner-stone of this Church dedicated to the 

 worship of the triune God, by the name of St. Michael's Church, 

 Lumb, was laid on the 29th day of September, a.d., 1847, by John 



