ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



Dne in Bradford, and St. Mark's at Leeds, were taken in hand. St. George's 

 It Sheffield was consecrated in 1825, and between that time and 1832 the 

 grant was used to rebuild five chapels and for the building of three chapels in 

 Leeds parish, two in Sheffield, four in Almondbury, four in Huddersfield, three 

 in Halifax, two in Birstal, and one each in Bradford, Hull, Kirkburton, and 

 Ripon.^' From other sources much enlargement and rebuilding was effected, 

 notably in Halifax parish. The benefactions of individual clergymen were 

 responsible for the chapels of Skircoat near Halifax and Holy Trinity at Ripon." 

 Lord Fitzwilliam provided a chapel at Swinton : the Misses Harrison of 

 Wadsley built a chapel on their manor." The formation of new ecclesiastical 

 parishes followed as a necessary consequence, Barnsley in Silkstone, Sharow 

 in Ripon, and Morley in Batley, being among the earliest instances. This 

 increase in the number of churches and parishes was followed in 1836 by the 

 subdivision of the dioceses of York and Chester. The new see of Ripon was 

 made to include a large portion of the West Riding, with the addition of the 

 deaneries which had lain in the diocese of Chester since 1541 ; while by the 

 inclusion of Nottinghamshire in Lincoln Diocese the see of York was 

 restricted to the archdeaconries of Cleveland and the East Riding and the 

 southern and eastern portions of the West Riding." The last Bishop of 

 Chester to bear rule in Yorkshire was John Bird Sumner (1828-48). 

 Charles Thomas Longley, head master of Harrow, became first Bishop of 

 Ripon (1836—56), and eventually, after translation to Durham (1856) and 

 York (i860), succeeded Sumner at Canterbury in 1862. 



There is no very intimate connexion between Yorkshire and the early 

 history of the Tractarian movement, but the revival of Church life and practice 

 which that movement entailed speedily leavened the county. In spite of 

 Wesley's insistence on the value of the sacraments, preaching was regarded 

 by the evangelical school in the Church as the main essential of public 

 worship, while the old-fashioned type of Churchman looked on any form of 

 change with disfavour. Weekly communion was once more established in 

 York Minster by Archbishop Harcourt, but not till 1841." Meanwhile a 

 voice was heard here and there in favour of a more exalted conception of the 

 history and duties of the Church. In 18 19 the learned John Oxlee, rector of 

 Scawton, upheld the power of the keys in a sermon preached at Thirsk 

 before the diocesan chancellor, and in subsequent discourses and treatises 

 maintained the doctrine of apostolical succession and opposed Unitarian 

 opinions.^^ The greatest practical impetus to the principles of the Oxford 

 movement in Yorkshire was given by the appointment of Walter Farquhar 

 Hook in 1837 to the vicarage of Leeds. No startling developments in 

 ritual accompanied his ministry, but a new parish church, worthy of the 

 importance of the town, was built, active parochial work in schools and 

 institutes was.started, and the frequent services of the church were accompanied 

 by increased dignity and reverence. In 1844 the great parish was subdivided 

 by Act of Parliament, and as a result of Hook's incumbency some twenty 



" Lawton, op. cit. 92, &c., under the various parishes, arranged according to the old rural deaneries. 

 "* Ibid. 13s, 542, 543. " Ibid. 241, 191. 



'* See details in the Appendix. 



" Ornshy, Dioc. Hist, rork, 4.01 n. , , ,. ,„ v 



" See Diet. Nat. Biog. xliii, 17, and a notice by G. Wakeling, The Oxford Church Movement (1895), 

 17 seq. 



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