SALFORD HUNDRED 



DEANE 



The canons of Cockersand probably 

 CHURCH maintained a chaplain on their manor. 

 A chapel existed in 1552." It was a 

 small thatched building, which in 1731 gave place to 

 a brick church ; 44 this again was replaced in 1869-70 

 by the present church, known as St. Bartholomew's, 

 built at the expense of John Seddon. 46 There was 

 * no service ' there in i6o5, 47 but this may have been 

 a temporary cessation. The Commonwealth surveyors 

 recommended that it should be made a parish church, 48 

 but nothing seems to have been done until 1860, when 

 a district chapelry was formed. 49 The income is given 

 as 442. The vicar of Deane is patron. The fol- 

 lowing have been curates and incumbents : M 



oc. 1627 John Ridgeley" 



oc. 1630 Alexander Horrocks" 



1651 John Isherwood 5I 



oc. 1671 John Edleston 



1696 Wood 



1700 Joseph Leese, B.A. (Christ's College) 



1720 William Orme, B.A. 



1732 Robert Harvey, B.A. 44 



1755 J ohn Chisnall, B.A." 



1782 Thomas Whitehead, M.A. (Glasgow) 66 



1788 Thomas Heys, M.A. (Oxford) a 



1 8 1 6 Chris. Bateson, B.A. (Pembroke Coll.) 



1825 Thomas Fogg, B.A. (St. John's College, 

 Oxford) M 



1842 James Richard Alsop, B.A. (Brasenose 

 College, Oxford) 



1868 William Henry Rankin, M.A. (Corpus 



Christi College, Oxford) " 



1869 Kinton Jacques, M.A. (Brasenose Col- 



lege, Oxford) " 



1890 Christopher Cronshaw 6t 

 1908 George Henry St. Patrick Garrett, 



M.A., B.D. (T.C.D.) 



Also in connexion with the Established Church, 

 St. John the Evangelist's, Wingates, was built in 

 1858, and had a separate district assigned to it in 

 1 860 ; the vicar of Deane is the patron. 63 St. James's, 

 Daisy Hill, was opened in 1 88 1; the Bishop of Man- 

 chester presents to it. 64 



The Wesleyan Methodists have had a place of 

 worship since 1785. The Primitive Methodists also 

 have a chapel. 



The Congregational Church at Westhoughton 

 originated from preaching begun in 1 8 1 1 ; a room 

 was built in 1817, and another in 1826 ; after which 

 a church was formed. In 1853 a chapel was built. 64 



The Society of Friends began meetings here in 

 1806 ; 6 the meeting-house was built in 1823. A 

 graveyard is attached. 



In 1586 the vicar of Deane presented that 'divers 

 priests ' were harboured at the house of Ralph Holme 

 of Chequerbent, 67 but apart from this there seems no 

 record of the survival of the old religion in the town- 

 ship. The church of the Sacred Heart was built in 

 1894, replacing one opened in I873. 68 



A school was founded about 1 740 ; another at 

 Wingates in 1818. 



OVER HULTON, MIDDLE HULTON, 

 LITTLE HULTON 



Helghetun and Hulton, 1235 (same document) ; 

 Hilton, 1288, 1292 ; Hulton, 1292 ; the form Hilton 

 continued in use till the xvii cent. 



The ancient district of Hulton, having an area of 

 4,540 acres, in time became three townships. QVER 

 HULTON, the western portion, has an area of 1,316 

 acres, 1 and measures about 2 miles from north to 

 south, by a mile and a half across. Hulton Park 

 occupies much of the southern part of the area. The 

 ground slopes from about 500 ft. in the north to 

 300 ft. in the south. 



The road from Deane and Bolton to Atherton and 

 Warrington runs along the eastern boundary, and is 

 crossed about the centre by that from Manchester 

 and Walkden to Westhoughton and Blackrod. 

 The crossing is marked by the hamlet of Hulton 

 Lane Ends. To the north of the road are several 

 collieries. The London and North Western Com- 

 pany's line from Bolton to Kenyon Junction passes 

 along the north-western boundary. There is no 



44 The Royal Commissioners in 1552 

 found at the chapel ' a chalice and other 

 ornaments for a priest to say mass in ' ; 

 Ch. Gds. (Chet. Soc.), 27. The build- 

 ing itself was redeemed from the king's 

 hands for 1 3*. d. or zos. ; Baines, Lanes. 

 Chantries (Chet. Soc.), ii, 277-8. 



In Mary's reign tenants of Westhough- 

 ton complained that James Browne had 

 caused an interruption of the service in the 

 chapel ; Ducatus Lane. (Rec. Com.), i, 296. 



45 Gastrell, Nofitia (Chet. Soc.), ii, 45. 

 Bishop Gastrell found the certified income 

 to be only 41*. 6d. ; about 50 stock be- 

 longed to it, and the contributions had 

 been as much as 20 a year. In 

 1719 it was augmented with land to the 

 value of 200, taken from the common 

 at inclosure ; and there was a good house 

 for the curate. 



48 Bolton Journ. 7 May 1887. 

 4 ? Visit. P. at Chester. 



48 Commonwealth Cb. Suri>. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), 38 ; 40 a year had 

 been appropriated to it from the tithes of 

 Deane sequestered from Mr. Anderton. 



49 Land. Gaz. 25 Jan. 1860 ; for endow- 

 ments, ibid. 3 Mayi844, and 14 Nov.i873. 



40 The Church Papers at Chester Dioc. 

 Reg. only begin in 1 700. There was a curate 

 summoned to the Visitation of 1562, but 

 he had disappeared by 1565. There was 

 'a minister* there in 1635 ; his name is 

 not recorded, but he would be Alexander 

 Horrocks ; Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and 

 Ches.), i, 112. 



61 Raines MSS. (Chet. Lib.), xxii, 200 ; 

 he was ' unlicensed and illiterate, and 

 would not allow a Common Prayer book 

 to lie in the chapel.' 



M Calling himself ' minister of the Gos- 

 pel at Deane' he subscribed the 'Har- 

 monious Consent' in 1648. Two years 

 later he was described as a ' godly, orthodox 

 divine'; Commonwealth Ch. Surv. ut sup. 

 He is often said to have been vicar of Deane, 

 but this seems to be a mistake ; he was 

 curate of Westhoughton (and Deane) and 

 lecturer at the parish church. He died at 

 Turton in 1650. See a notice of him, 

 with his will, in Pal. Note Bk. iii, 23. 



ss Plund. Mint. Accts. (Rec. Soc. Lanes. 

 and Ches.), i, 104. After the Restoration 

 James Bradshaw, formerly rector of Wigan 

 and expelled from Macclesficld in 1662, 

 used to preach in Westhoughton Chapel 



25 



occasionally ; Bridgeman, Wigan Ch. 

 (Chet. Soc.), 470. 



64 Will proved at Chester, 1755. He 

 left ,100 for the benefit of the township ; 

 this was applied to the school. He was 

 curate of Horwich for part of the time. 



i& He had been curate of Walmsley in 

 Turton and lecturer at Bolton ; Scholes 

 and Pimblett, Bolton, 330. 



48 He also had been lecturer at Bolton ; 

 ibid. 



47 Was curate also of Culcheth (q.v.), 

 but resided at Westhoughton. 



68 Afterwards incumbent of Hornby. 



49 Author of Faith and Practice, &c. ; 

 afterwards vicar of Bednall. 



60 Rector of Meysey Hampton, 1869. 



81 Afterwards rector of Brindle. 



82 Previously vicar of St. Matthew's, 

 Bolton. M Land. Gam. 31 Mar. 1860. 



84 Ibid. 10 Feb. 1882 for district. 



84 Nightingale, Lanes. Nonconf. iv, 123. 



86 Life of Jos. Buckley, 97. 



87 Baines, Lanes, quoting Harl. MS. 360, 

 fol. 32. 



68 Kelly, Engl. Cath. Missions, 425. 

 1 1, 2 1 6, including 12 of inland water, 

 according to the census of 1901. 



