SALFORD HUNDRED 



DEANE 



duced to light the galleries. The galleries were put 

 up in 1849 and removed in 1884. The aisles extend 

 the length of the nave, but the north aisle now ter- 

 minates at the east with an open arch to the new 

 organ chamber. There is an ancient piscina in the 

 south-east corner, and a good pointed doorway of 14th- 

 century date at the west end of the north wall opposite 

 the first bay. This doorway, however, seems to have 

 been originally on the west side of the tower and to 

 have been removed to its present position when the 

 new western tower entrance was constructed. The 

 south aisle has a five-light transomed window under a 

 flat-pointed arch at its east end. The south porch is 

 modern. 



The tower, the ground floor of which is used as 

 a vestry, has walls 4 ft. thick and opens to the 

 nave by a pointed arch, above which, within the 

 line of the old roof, is a doorway 4 ft. 6 in. high and 

 2 ft. wide. The ringing chamber above is gained by 

 a ladder, there being no vice, and the upper part of 

 the arch is filled by a glazed screen. Externally the 

 tower is very plain, with diagonal buttresses and a new 

 west doorway and a window above. There is a clock 

 in the south side, and the upper stage on each face has 

 a square-headed two-light louvred belfry window, the 

 lights with trefoiled heads. The tower finishes with 

 an embattled parapet and angle pinnacles. 



The fittings are mostly modern, but there is a good 

 1 6th-century black oak pulpit with back and canopy, 

 the renaissance detail of which is rather elaborate. 6 

 The interior of the church is plastered and painted, 

 the walls of the chancel and nave having a series of 

 figures of great English churchmen, principally leaders 

 of the Protestant Reformation. In a glass case at the 

 end of the nave are preserved the works of Bishop 

 Jewell and other 16th-century Protestant books. 



The churchyard is very extensive and lies on the 

 north, east, and south sides of the building, being 

 entered from the road on the south through a stone 

 lych-gate erected in 1903. It has been extended at 

 different times, the last extensions being in 1876 and 

 1893. The ancient yew tree on the south side is 

 now dead, but the trunk and branches remain with a 

 picturesque covering of ivy. On the same side is the 

 base of a stone cross which formerly stood in Junction 

 Road, before which it is stated that George Marsh 

 spent a night in prayer before he gave himself up at 

 Smithills. A new shaft has been erected on the old 

 base with an inscription recounting the tradition. 63 



There is also a pedestal sundial on an octagon shaft 

 with the name of the maker (W. Leigh, Newton) and 

 the latitude and longitude. In the churchyard there 

 were formerly effigies of a knight and a lady, but these 

 have disappeared. 7 



There is a ring of six bells, rehung in 1873. 



The plate consists of a chalice of 1607 ; a chalice 

 of 1655, incribed 'The guift of Mr. John Aynsworth 

 unto the Parish Church of Deane in Lancasheire in 

 the yeare of our Lord, 1655 '; a cover paten of the 

 same year, inscribed ' The guift of Mrs. Judeth 

 Hulton unto the Parish Church of Deane in Lan- 

 casheire in the yeare of our Lord, 1655,' and with 

 the arms of Hulton of Hulton ; a credence paten of 

 1729, inscribed ' Ex donatione Annae Kenyon Viduae 

 Georgii Kenyon, nuper de Peel in Com. Lane. 

 Armigeri 1729,' with the arms of Kenyon impaling 

 Egerton in a lozenge, and the mark of William 

 Atkinson ; two patens of 1782, with the mark of 

 Daniel Smith and Robert Sharpe 73 ; two small flagons 

 of 1 80 1, inscribed 'Presented ist January 1828 to 

 the Parish Church of Dean, by Jane Daughter of 

 Peter Brooke, Esqre. of Mere Hall, Cheshire, and 

 Relict of William Hulton, Esqre. of Hulton Park, 

 who Died 24th June 1800'; a credence paten of 

 1846, given by the parish in that year ; and a paten 

 of 1901, Birmingham make, inscribed 'The gift of 

 Mrs. Elizabeth Marsh unto the Parish Church of 

 Dean, in Lanes., on the Coronation of Ed. VII, 

 June 26, 1902.' 



The registers begin in 1637, but there are earlier 

 transcripts at Chester. 



Although St. Mary's, Deane, is 

 dDPOWSON mentioned in 13th-century deeds, 

 and its chaplain described as ' parson,' 8 

 it was not until 1541 that an independent parish was 

 assigned to it. Until that year the chaplain had been 

 nominated by the vicar of Eccles, within whose parish 

 Deane was included, and had received from him 4 

 a year as stipend. 9 Henry VIII, having after the 

 suppression of Whalley Abbey constituted Deane a 

 parish by letters patent, assumed the patronage, which 

 till recently remained in the Crown, the vicar being 

 appointed by the Lord Chancellor. The present 

 patrons are Simeon's Trustees, by purchase in 1877.' 



Inquiries made in 1546 and 1549 showed that 

 apart from the glebe the vicar had no fixed income 

 beyond the 4 paid by the vicar of Eccles. 11 



In 1650 the vicar of Deane received, besides an 



6 The reredos and organ fronts were 

 designed by the present vicar (Rev. H. S. 

 Patterson), and the screen under the tower 

 arch was made in the vicarage by village 

 talent. 



6a Marsh's known doctrinal standpoint 

 is adverse to the 'tradition.' 



' Glynne, Lanes. Churches, 95-6. 



" a These are not ecclesiastical plate, 

 being really salvers or waiters on three- 

 fhaped feet. 



8 ' Thomas, persona de la Dene,' at- 

 tested a Great Lever deed, in favour of 

 Siward son of Robert the chaplain of 

 Deane ; Lever Chartul. (Add. MS. 32103), 

 no. i. Waldeve was another of the early 

 chaplains ' capellano de valle Sancte 

 Marie ' ; Hulton Evidences, 3. 



Thomas de Perpoint granted to the 

 monks of Stanlaw, holders of the church 

 of Eccles, all his land by the chapel of 

 St. Mary, Deane, the boundaries given 

 showing the land to be the glebe land of 



the church ; viz. from the chapel ceme- 

 tery on the west side as far as the Kirk 

 Brook, then by the Muckle Brook to the 

 ditch, and by a hedge to the east side of 

 the cemetery. This grant was confirmed 

 by Robert Grelley, lord of Manchester, in 

 1276; Whalley Coucher (Chet. Soc.), i, 

 6o-2. 



Farnworth in the parish of the Deane 

 is so described in a charter of 1292 ; 

 Lever Chartul. no. 52. 



Piers Crompton and Thomas Street 

 were ' parish priests ' of Deane at dif- 

 ferent times between 1505 and 1522 ; 

 Duchy Plead. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 i, 104, 107. 



9 The vicar of Deane in 1544 claimed 

 the pension of 4 a year, which the vicar 

 of Eccles refused to pay on the ground 

 that Deane having been made an inde- 

 pendent parish he had no responsibility 

 for it and received no dues from it. The 

 appointment of a separate chaplain for 



Deane was referred back to an ordinance 

 by the Bishop of Lichfield in 1277. The 

 letters patent of Henry VIII ordered that 

 the vicar of the new parish ' should have 

 the cure of souls, say mass, and administer 

 the sacraments, and bear all the charges 

 belonging to the said vicarage, provided 

 always that the said vicar should not 

 receive of the king any higher stipend 

 than the late chaplain had' ; ibid, ii, 

 197-9. 



10 The advowson was sold by the Lord 

 Chancellor under the Act 26 & 27 Viet, 

 cap. 1 20, known as the Lord Chancellor's 

 Augmentation Act ; information of Messrs. 

 Sandilands & Co., solicitors to Simeon's 

 Trustees. 



11 Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, 234. In 

 the inquiry of 1546 the value of the 

 glebe was stated as 1 31. \d., and it was 

 said that the 4 was paid by the farmer 

 of the tithes ; this was corrected in the 

 later inquiry. 



