SALFORD HUNDRED 



The Free Church of England has a place of worship 

 in Hollinwood. 



The Wesleyan Methodists' first chapel was built in 

 1775 ; the church in Manchester Street was opened 

 by John Wesley in 1790, and enlarged in iSjo. 182 

 There are also chapels at Greenacres Road (Wesley), 

 Glodwick, Watersheddings, Moorside, and Northmoor. 

 There are two circuits. 



The Primitive Methodists have four circuits in the 

 Oldham district, with nine chapels in the township. 

 The Methodist New Connexion has six chapels ; the 

 Methodist Free Church four, and the Independent 

 Methodists five. 153 



The Baptists have four churches, and the Particular 

 Baptists four. 184 



Robert Constantine, on being ejected from the 

 curacy of Oldham in 1662, continued to minister in 

 the village and neighbourhood. Before 1695 he was 

 living in a house at Greenacres, which also did duty 

 as a place of worship ; he removed to Manchester, 

 and for a time nothing is known of his congregation, 

 but a barn converted into a chapel was used from 1 699 

 till 17845, when the Independents erected the chapel 

 which served till 1854, the date of the present building. 184 

 Union Street represents an effort made in 1 807 ; the 

 first chapel was opened in 1823, and after a fluctuating 

 history the congregation built the present one in 1855. 

 Hope Chapel was built by Samuel Lees, of the Soho 

 Iron Works, in 1823 ; it was replaced by the present 

 one in 1866. Providence Chapel is the result of a 

 secession from Hope in 1829. Townfield Chapel 

 began as an undenominational meeting-place in 1850, 

 then it was Methodist, and from 1874 Congrega- 



PRESTWICH WITH 

 OLDHAM 



tional. A secession from it in 1883 led to the 

 erection of Derker School-chapel in 1886. The 

 history of Werneth Chapel begins in 1868, but the 

 school-chapel was not built till 1874. A cottage 

 meeting in 1878 led to the school-chapel in Ashton 

 Road in 1880. At Hollinwood, then 'a much 

 neglected village,' work began in 1850, but the chapel 

 was not built till 1866. At Water head services 

 commenced in cottages in 1837 ; other buildings 

 succeeded, and a chapel was built in 1870. The 

 chapel at Pastures was built in i856. 186 



The Presbyterian Church of England was founded 

 in 1883, the building being opened four years later. 187 

 Salem Moravian Church, Clarksfield, was built in 

 1 824, becoming an independent congregation in 1836; 

 on the other side of the town Westwood Church was 

 opened in 1869, after some years' preparatory work. 188 

 There are Catholic Apostolic (or Irvingite), Welsh 

 Calvinistic, Salvation Army, and Church of Christ 

 chapels, and some mission rooms. The Society of 

 Friends has long had a meeting-house here. 189 The 

 Unitarians have a chapel. 190 The Latter Day Saints 

 (Mormons) also have services. 191 



There are four Roman Catholic churches : St. 

 Mary's, built in 1 838 ; 19J Our Lady of Mount Carmel 

 and St. Patrick's, 186270; St. Anne's, Greenacres, 

 1880-1903 ; and Corpus Christi, Hollinwood, 1878. 



The Grammar School was founded in 1606 ; the 

 building was erected in 1 6 1 1 . 



The report of 1826 is the latest 

 CHARITIES official record. 195 The principal en- 

 dowments at that time were educa- 

 tional, 194 but some were for the poor of Oldham, 195 



182 Butterworth, Oldham (1817), 40; 

 an extract is given from the Life of John 

 Murlin, a preacher ; the Methodists came 

 to Oldham, 'a place famous through all 

 that country for daring and desperate 

 wickedness,' and experienced 'heavy per- 

 secution for a season.' 



183 The Independent Methodists had a 

 chapel in 1817 at a place formerly called 

 Jackson's Pit ; Butterworth, op. cit. 45. 

 In 1824 the chapels were Independent 

 Methodists in George Street, and Primi- 

 tive Methodists in Grosvenor Street. 



184 The first Baptist Chapel, at the top 

 of Manchester Street, was purchased in 

 1 8 1 6 from the Methodist New Connexion, 

 who built it in 1805; the opening services 

 included the baptism of fourteen persons 

 in the reservoir at Hollinwood ; Butter- 

 worth, op. cit. 43. 



The chapels in Chamber Road, at Glod- 

 wick and at Hollinwood (Beulah), date 

 from 1863, 1876, and 1891, respectively; 

 Baft. Tear Bk. In 1856 the Particular 

 Baptists had three chapels, two in Hollin- 

 wood, and one in Horsedge Street. 



185 A History of the chapel, by its minis- 

 ter, the Rev. George Gaunt Waddington, 

 was published in 1854; it gives views of 

 the houses and chapels successively used, 

 and an account of the various ministers. 

 One or two of them had adopted the Uni- 

 tarian doctrine prevalent among the Non- 

 conformists in the latter part of the 1 8th 

 century, but stayed only a short time, and 

 Calvinism was the rule ; see the account 

 in Nightingale's Lanes. Nonconf. v, Z3O-45. 



The chapel at Greenacres was one of 

 those wrecked by the ' Church and King ' 

 mob from Manchester in 1715 ; see works 

 above quoted ; and for the names and 

 fines of some of the delinquents (1716), 

 Raines Papers in Chet. Lib. 



186 Nightingale, op. cit. v, 245-64, 

 268-74. 



lf 7 Official Handbook of the Presb. Ch. 

 of Engl. 



188 The United Brethren began preach- 

 ing at Greenacres in 1772, and continued 

 at Lees. Salem Chapel was built at the 

 expense of John Lees of Fairfield, James 

 Lees of Clarksfield, and Joseph Lees of 

 Plymouth Grove, the owner of the estate 

 undertaking to discharge all taxes, &c. ; 

 from Short Sketches of Moravian Work 

 (1888), 26-31. 



189 Heyside in Royton had been the 

 meeting-place since 1665. In 1784 a 

 meeting-house was opened in Oldham ; in 

 1802 the present site was acquired, and 

 the house was built in 1869. 



190 ' A small but comparatively hand- 

 some structure ' in Lord Street, erected in 

 1816 ; Butterworth, op. cit. 44. 



191 These existed in 1856. In that year 

 there was also a New Jerusalem or Swe- 

 denborgian Church in Lees Road. 



192 It was attacked by an anti-Catholic 

 mob in 1861, when much damage was 

 done ; Kelly, Engl. Cat A. Miss. 304. 



198 Char. Com. Rep. xvi, 1826, pp. 

 222-34. Oldham is called a parish, and 

 treated separately from Prestwich. 



194 Oldham Grammar School, 1606 ; 

 Hollinwood School, 1786, to which also 

 John Walker's Charity of 1755 was ap- 

 plied ; and the Bluecoat School, founded 

 by Thomas Henshaw in 1807. Samuel 

 Scholes in 1747 gave rent-charges of 12 

 on lands in Glodwick, and ,4 on mes- 

 suages in Oldham for the education of 

 poor children; and in 1826 there were 

 thirty-nine being taught out of the pro- 

 ceeds at different schools. 



195 The Great Meadow, near Fogg Lane, 

 was in 1640 granted by Edmund Tetlow 



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the elder, and Edmund Tetlow the younger, 

 charged with rents of 28*. %d. and 31. 4^. 

 for the poor of Oldham and Royton re- 

 spectively. Though these sums are named 

 it seems to have been the practice from 

 the first to give the whole rent of the 

 field to the poor, and this was established 

 by the later trusts. In 1804, on the divi- 

 sion of the common lands, a small allot- 

 ment was made in respect of the Poor's 

 Field. In 1826 the gross rents were 

 20 21., distributed with the following. 



John Tetlow in 1704 left land in 

 Honeywell Lane, near Broadway Lane in 

 Oldham, for the benefit of the poor ; one 

 boy was to be apprenticed each year. An 

 allotment on North Moor was added in 

 1804; and the gross rents in 1826 

 amounted to 33 a year. This and the 

 preceding charity money were distributed 

 in blankets, linen, and calico. No ap- 

 prenticeships had been made for many 

 years. 



Samuel Haward in 1704 gave rent- 

 charges on his lands in Salford, Thorpe in 

 Royton, Hollinwood in Oldham, Fails- 

 worth, and Gorton for the poor of Salford 

 and Oldham, 'who should constantly on 

 the Lord's Day go to church or some 

 legal assembly for divine worship, and 

 there reverently behave themselves, morn- 

 ing and evening.' The three rent-charges 

 of ,25 in all were duly paid in 1826, and 

 the money distributed according to the 

 founder's intent, in Bibles, Catechisms, 

 and clothing ; the minister had 201. for a 

 sermon on the first Wednesday after 

 Michaelmas Day. 



Timothy Eyre of Hollinwood in 1728 

 left ,100 for the poor. In 1826 the 

 capital was in the hands of the incumbent 

 of Oldham, who distributed ^"4 ICM. as 

 interest in linen cloth. 



