ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



one in the diocese of Ripon, who, taking his title under the old Act from 

 Penrith, was enabled by the amended Act to change it for that of Richmond. 

 A second bishop-suffragan has lately (1905) been appointed for Ripon diocese 

 with the title of Knaresborough. In the minsters of York and Ripon the 

 county possesses two noble cathedrals whose services are well maintained under 

 deans who are fully alive to the value of the treasures which they guard. 

 Fortunately in 1836 the cathedral of Ripon was able to begin its existence 

 with a full chapter, the gradual reduction of which to a dean and four 

 residentiaries was provided for by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Wake- 

 field Cathedral, starting life as a mere parish church, was not so happy, and 

 residentiary canonries still remain to be provided : the cathedral, however, 

 was enlarged in 1905 by a handsome eastern extension, and no pains have 

 been spared to make it worthy of its dignity. A clergy training school was 

 founded privately, as we have seen, by Dr. Vaughan at Doncaster, but this 

 was not a diocesan institution. In Ripon diocese there are two theological 

 colleges, the clergy school at Leeds founded in 1876 by the vicar. Dr. Gott, 

 afterwards Bishop of Truro, and the college at Ripon founded by the present 

 bishop in 1900. Of recent years the Community of the Resurrection has 

 established a training college for candidates for holy orders at Mirfield in 

 Wakefield Diocese. 



Yorkshire was under the care of a vicar apostolic of the Church of 

 Rome until the erection of the Roman hierarchy in England. The West 

 Riding now constitutes the diocese of Leeds, while the North and East 

 Ridings, with the greater part of York, form the diocese of Middlesbrough, 

 A new cathedral has been built recently at Leeds. The most important 

 Roman establishment in the county is the Benedictine Abbey of Ampleforth 

 in the North Riding. Some of the more important Nonconformist colleges 

 and schools have been mentioned. To these may be added the Wesleyan 

 colleges at Sheffield, founded in 1838, and at Headingley, founded in 1867-8, 

 the Baptist college at Rawdon near Leeds, removed from Horton in 1859, 

 the Independent college at Bradford, founded 1888 by the amalgamation of 

 Airedale and Rotherham Colleges, both founded in 1856 ; and the Metho- 

 dist New Connexion college at Ranmoor near Sheffield, founded in 1863-4. 

 Among the oldest Nonconformist places of worship in the county is Mill 

 Hill Chapel in Leeds, originally Presbyterian, of which Ralph Thoresby, the 

 Leeds antiquary, was one of the proprietors.^" This became Unitarian in the 

 course of the i8th century, and Dr. Priestley ministered here from 1767 to 

 1773. Upper Chapel at Sheffield, also Presbyterian, became Unitarian during 

 the 1 8th century. 



" See Thoresby, Diary (ed. Hunter, 1830), i, 182, 206. The present chapel is a modern building. 



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