SALFORD HUNDRED 



MANCHESTER 



the first floor a very pretty six-light window projecting 

 from the wall, and carried on a coved and embattled 

 sill with Gothic tracery on the cove and a shield with 

 the Stanley badge of an eagle's claw. Its gable on 

 the south front was of half-timber work before its 

 destruction, and the east side of the gabled wing was 

 panelled with quatrefoils, which were cut into by the 

 south wall of the hall. It does not, however, seem 

 likely that the wing was earlier than the hall. The 

 interior of this block is unfortunately modernized, and 

 its original arrangements can only be inferred, as that 

 the kitchen stood at the south-west, with a lobby or 

 entry on the north towards the court, and between 

 these and the hall were the buttery, pantry, and 

 kitchen passage, while the floor above was divided into 

 chambers, perhaps five in all. These arrangements 

 must have been modified when the existing west wing 

 was added, on the site of an older wing, about 1639. 

 It is to be noted that the passage into the screens of 

 the hall is on the axial line of the former courtyard, 

 being halfway between the 17th-century west wing 

 and the foundations of the destroyed east wing. The 

 west wing was designed for the kitchen and servant's 

 quarters, &c., and the old buttery and pantry were 

 perhaps at this time converted into living rooms and 

 the bay window towards the courtyard added. The 

 wing is of plain character, in red brick, with square- 

 headed muUioued windows, now to a great extent 

 renewed in terra cotta, and having towards the court 

 a projecting bay containing a stair to the first floor, 

 on which was formerly a panel with the arms and 

 initials of Sir Alexander RadcIifFe, a garter encircling 

 the arms, and the date 1639. I*^ place is now taken 

 by the arms of Lord Egerton of Tatton. The angles of 

 the bay are cut away below, but corbelled out above to 

 the square. The roof of this wing preserves its stone 

 slates, and with its several gables is still very attractive ; 

 one of the original brick chimney stacks remains, with 

 single bricks set herring-bone fashion between the 

 shafts, as in other 17th-century work in the dis- 

 trict. Near the north end of the wing the east wall 

 sets back on a line so nearly coinciding with that of a 

 foundation discovered in 1896, running westward 

 from the old east wing, that it may be taken as mark- 

 ing the width of an original north wing, and also 

 suggests that this wing was still in existence when the 

 17th-century work was begun. 



There was formerly a fair amount of old coloured 

 glass in the windows of the hall and elsewhere, but 

 much jumbled together ; among other things the coat 

 of RadcIifFe quartered with Fitz Walter in a garter, and 

 figures of Our Lady and St. Katherine, since removed 

 to Barlow Hall. Other things, including a lead statue 

 of Mercury, after John of Bologna, which stood in 

 the garden, were removed to Tatton. 



The land tax in 1787 amounted tOj^^aio'"^; to 

 this the principal contributors were Samuel Clowes, 



William Egerton, John Gore Booth, and Jonathan 

 Bury, in all contributing about a fourth part."" 



SJCRED TRINITr CHURCH was 

 CHURCH originally built in a debased Gothic style 

 in 1635. The tower was added early in 

 the 1 8th century, but in 1 748 the vibration of the bells 

 which were then hung in it having brought down a part 

 of the body of the church,"" the whole of the building, 

 with the exception of the tower, was taken down in 

 1 75 1 and rebuilt in the following year. It is a 

 simple parallelogram in plan, with a west tower, and 

 architecturally uninteresting, being built in stone in 

 a plain classic style with two tiers of semicircular- 

 headed windows on each side, and entrances at the 

 west end of each aisle facing north and south. The 

 east end has two similar windows, above which exter- 

 nally is a niche said to have been intended for a figure 

 of Charles I, in whose reign the church was founded. 

 The interior has side and west galleries supported by 

 square pillars panelled in oak, with stone pillars above 

 carrying the roof The old high pews were cut 

 down and made into open seats in 1886. At the 

 same time other improvements were effected, in- 

 cluding the opening out of a baptistery under the 

 tower and the removal of the old flat ceiling ; and 

 the organ was brought down from the west gallery 

 and a quasi-chancel formed at the east end."' The 

 arms of Booth and those of Kenyon (the Rev. Robert 

 Kenyon was a former rector) are carved on the ends 

 of the two front seats in the nave. 



The tower, which originally had a short steeple or 

 conical roof, is Gothic in form with buttresses and 

 pinnacles and an embattled parapet, but with a classic 

 cornice between the buttresses and other original 

 renaissance detail. The tower was, however, largely 

 rebuilt in 1859, when a large four-light mullioned 

 and transomed window with ogee head was inserted 

 on the west side in the lower stage."" The upper 

 stage has a two-light louvred belfry window and a 

 clock on each face. 



There is a ring of six bells, hung in 1748. 



The plate consists of two chalices, a paten, and 

 an almsdish of 1635 (?), one of the chalices inscribed 

 ' The Gift of Humphrey Booth unto Trinity Chapel 

 in Salford ; ' a paten, ' The Gift of Humphrey Old- 

 field late of Manchester, gent.' ; a flagon of 1697 

 inscribed 'Anno 1697, given to Trinity Chappell in 

 Salford for y" Vse of y° Holy Sacrament, by John 

 Higinbotham of Salford, merchant ' ; and a chalice 

 presented in memory of the Rev. H. F. Gore-Booth, 

 1908.'" 



The registers begin 1709."' 



Apart from the private chapel of 



ADFOWSON Ordsall "» there does not appear to 



have been any place of worship "* 



in the township until Humphrey Booth built and 



endowed the chapel as above."' The patronage has 



'"5 Land tax returns at Preston. 



W Ibid. 



'"s Picture of Mancb. by Joseph Aston, 

 1816. 



w Glynne, Churches of Lanes, note of 

 1892. 



no The tower seems to have been re- 

 paired before this date. Booker, Hist, of 

 Blackley Chapel (1855), 123, says 'the 

 tower is a square pinnacled one, newly 

 patched with red sandstones.' 



^^^ Notes to Glynne, Lanes, Churches, 

 1892, p. 50. 



"2 Ibid. The Owen MSS. have copies 

 of the gravestone inscriptions, 



11^ The following licences for this ora- 

 tory are found in the Lich. Epis. Reg. : — 



21 Mar. 1360— I, to John de RadclifTe, 

 for two years ; v, fol. 5. 



7 Mar. 13 64.-5, to Richard son of John 

 de RadcIifFe, for two years ; v, foL 10. 



19 Dec. 1366, to Richard de RadcIifFe, 

 for two years ; v, fol. 15. 



24 Oct. 1383, to Johnde RadcIifFe, for 

 two years ; v, fol. 36^. 



^^"^ Henry, chaplain of Salford, is named 



215 



in 1323 ; Coram RegcR. 254, m. y\b. The 

 Earl of Lancaster may have had a chapel, 

 115 Sgg t}ie account of Humphrey Booth. 

 HoUinworth states that he built it at his 

 own cost, except that ;^200 was con- 

 tributed by Sir Alexander Radclifte and 

 others, and endowed it with ,^20 in 

 lands. Then Humphrey Booth, * being 

 in great weakness, earnestly desired that 

 he might live to see the chapel finished, 

 which he did ; but immediately after the 

 solemn dedication of it by the Bishop of 

 Chester he more apparently weakened j 



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