374 A TOPOGRAPHICAL 



TVm. Adey, Curate, 

 Malts. Broadhurst, Warden, 

 1738. 



From the first inscription we infer, that the chapel was rebuilt 

 with stone in 1718. The ancient chapel was probably half timber, 

 like the present turret of TVhitniore church, and some old churches 

 now to be seen in Cheshire. 



Though Bagnall and Bucknall are still townships of the parish 

 of Stoke for civil purposes, such as the maintenance of the 

 poor, &c. and were chapels of ease to the mother church ; yet in 

 regard to ecclesiastical purposes, they are now by Act of Parlia- 

 ment become a distinct parish and rectory, which includes the ad- 

 joining township of Eaves, belonging likewise to Stoke, and the 

 three townships, Ba^nall, Bucknall, and Eaves, are called the PA- 

 RISH OF BUCKNALL AND BAGNALL. The Chapel of Bucknall is a 

 parish church, and the Chapel of Bagnall is annexed thereto, and 

 a chapel of ease to the said parish church of Bucknall and Bagnall. 

 The inhabitants of the chapelry of Bagnall are not liable to the re- 

 pairs of the church of Bucknall, nor are the inhabitants of the cha- 

 pelry of Bucknall liable to the repairs of the chapel of Bagnall. 



The Rectory is endowed with about 85 acres of glebe, nearly 60 

 acres of which are situate in the parish of Cheddleton, and com- 

 monly called Lee-house Farm. Upwards of 21 acres lie in the pa- 

 rish of Horton, and are called Lask Edge or Moor-top Farm, and 

 a field of about four acres lies near Bagnall, and is called the Par' 

 ton s Field. 



It is further endowed with all the great and small tithes of the 

 townships of Bucknall, Bagnall, and the Eaves, and each of them, 

 together with all surplice fees and other emoluments heretofore 

 belonging to the chapelries. 



The population of the township of Eaves in 1811 was 232 per- 

 sons, whereof 115 were males, and 117 females. The number of 

 houses was 40, which were occupied by 40 families, and 3 were un- 

 inhabited, so that the population of the parish of Bucknall and 

 Ba^nall amounts to 864. 



The above noticed act of separation does not exonerate the in- 

 habitants of this parish from the repairs of Stoke Church, nor de- 

 prive them of their accustomed right of pews, seats, or sittings 

 therein, or of the right of sepulture in any burial place within the 

 parish of Stoke, to which they were entitled before the passing of 

 the said Act, 



