Chap. 2.] 



ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 



S7 



The contracts have been carried out by Messrs. Kay and Piuder, 

 stone merchants ; Mr. E. Robinson, joiner ; and Mr. E. Bell, i^ainter — 

 all of wliom are Longi-idge men, and Churchmen. The site is well 

 chosen, and, when a steeple is added, the Church will be a iirominent 

 feature in the landscape for miles around. It is designed to seat about 

 700 persons, and the sittings are to be free and unappropriated for ever. 

 No separate minister will be appointed at present. The whole of the 

 money required, £10,500, has been already collected, with the excep- 

 tion of about £2,000, which sum, it is hoped, will be raised at a bazaar 

 to be held in 1889. Already £800 has been raised by this popular 

 means of obtaining money. The leading subscribers to the Church, 

 which is to be dedicated to St. Paul, are : — 



Kobert Smith, J.P £1.000 



do (Chancel) ... 



do (Site) 



Thos. Whittaker, J.P. (the late) 



Harris Trustees 



Diocesan Church Building Society 



J. P. Whittle 



William Smith 



£2,000 

 £750 

 £500 

 £500 

 £400 

 £250 

 £250 



The Eev. E. Pigot, Eector of Whittington, near Carnforth, and 

 formerly Vicar of Longridge, in a sermon preached a few years ago in 

 Longridge Church, alluded to an interesting custom in vogue during 

 his ministry, viz., the practice of having rushes on the floor of the 

 Church. 



From an agreement, kindly supplied to me by the Eev. P. A. Cave- 

 Browne-Cave, M.A., dated 27 March, 1837, between the Clerk, 

 Eichard Heskin, and the Churchwardens, I extract the following — 

 " He (the Clerk), shall remove the straw from the floor and lay down 

 fresh straw when required by the Chapel "Wardens." 



The singing gallery was somewhat different in Mr. Maude's time 

 (1847) to what it is now. 



"Old Bob Booth," says Mr. Hoole, "played a 'bassoon,' while 

 William Eaves played the big fiddle, and W. Ehodes manipulated the 

 clarionet. It was quite a treat to hear old Bob Booth." 



