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£ s. d. 



2 pare of hinges and scrues 2 



7 quarts of ale 3 6 



£0 5 6 



" An account for liquor to the workmen of the Chapel " anaouuts to 

 £2 8s. 9d., from May 18th to August 16th, 1784. No less than 42 

 quarts were drunk at the " rearing." The old font was made by 

 Edward Greenwood and Co., masons, Lougridge, in 1786, and cost 

 £1 3s. lOd. The registers date from 1760, the oldest tombstone 

 bearing date 1789. 



The following, taken from the minute book of the xxiv or Vestry 

 of Eibchester, is interesting: — "Whereas, an old Bazoon mending 

 and new one with two handles, stand in this book charg'd to the 

 Parish. The Major part of the Vestry assembled at this meeting on 

 Easter Tuesday, in the year 1794, Do agree and bide' that the old 

 Bazoon shall belong to the Parish Church of Eibchester, with one 

 Handle, and the new Bazoon and Hautboy shall belong to the Chapel 

 of Longridge as their each respective rites.'" 



In 1822 the Church was, for the third time, re-built; but ii its 

 present state is any criterion of what it was in 1716 on its first re- 

 building, it must have been in a truly pitiable condition ; for by no 

 possible charitable contrivance can the Parish Church of Longridge 

 be called anything but a " barn-like building." The cost of the res- 

 toration in 1822 can be gathered from the inscription on a second tablet 

 in the Church :—" A.D. 1822. This Chapel was enlarged, and 309 

 additional sittings obtained, by a grant of £240 from the Society for 

 Promoting the Building and Enlarging of Churches and Chapels, and 

 other benefactions, of which number 237, in addition to 271 formerlj' 

 provided, are free and unappropriated. Robert Parkinson, minister ; 

 Edmund Sagar, John Seed, Chapel Wardens." 



According to this inscription, there were considerably over 600 

 sittings in the Church. 



In 1834 the value of the living was £107. 



'Bid. ^Kigjitg. 



