SALFORD HUNDRED 



MANCHESTER 



Mormon missionaries visited the town in 1840. 



The Welsh Calvinistic Methodists formerly had a 

 chapel in Cooper Street, built in 1824..™ 



The Dutch Evangelicals or Lutherans in 1857 had 

 a meeting-place in John Dalton Street. 



There exist a City Mission founded in 1837 and 

 supported by what are known as the Evangelical 

 denominations, and a Domestic Mission, which is 

 Unitarian. 



The adherents of the ancient faith appear to have 

 disappeared very quickly after the Reformation, and 

 by the end of Elizabeth's reign there were probably 

 few known in the whole parish except the Barlows of 

 Barlow."" In 1 651 Richard Martinscroft, ' a poor 

 old man, over sixty years of age,' is found to have had 

 two-thirds of his estate ' sequestered for his recusancy 

 only ' : he had a large house in Manchester, divided 

 into three dwellings, but lived two or three miles 

 away.'''" The list of ' Papists ' supplied to Bishop Gastrell 

 about 1 71 7 records only thirteen in Manchester and 

 three in Salford,"' but a later list, 1767, gives the 

 number as 373, principally in Manchester, Salford, 

 and Stretford.'" What attempts were made to pro- 

 vide priests in the first century of the proscription is 

 unknown, but soon after the Restoration one Thomas 

 Weedon had charge of a large district including most 

 of the Salford and Macclesfield Hundreds, and appears 

 to have resided chiefly at Manchester, where he died 

 in 1 719.''* Mass, it is related, was said in secret 

 near the present Blackfriars Bridge, in a room which 

 was used as a warehouse during the week."* About 

 1760 rooms were secured off Church Street in the 

 passage on that account known as Roman Entry. 

 Some fifteen years later a house containing a large 

 room to be used as a church was built in Rook 

 Street."' It was known as St. Chad's, and is now 

 represented by St. Chad's, Cheetham Hill Road, 

 erected in 1 847. St. Mary's in Mulberry Street was 

 built in 1 794,"°' and rebuilt in 1835 ; the roof fell 

 in soon afterwards, but the church remained in use 

 until 1 847, when the present one, on the same con- 

 fined site, was erected, being dedicated in 1848. To 

 these have been added St. Augustine's, 1820 ;"' St. 

 Patrick's, 1832;*^ St. Anne's, Ancoats, 1847-8; 

 St. Michael's, 1859 ; and St. Alban's, Ancoats. St. 



William's, Angel Meadow, 1864, is a chapel of ease 

 to St. Chad's ; and the Polish mission of St. Casimir, 

 1 904, to St. Patrick's. The Sisters of Charity have a 

 night refuge in Ancoats. 



The Jews had a synagogue, a humble room oft 

 Long Millgate, a century ago ; about 1826 they built 

 one in Halliwell Street, which has now disap- 

 peared."' 



Among the distinguishing features of Whit-week in 

 Manchester are the processions of the Sunday School 

 children. They began in 1801. 



CHORLTON-UPON-MEDLOCK 



Cherleton, 11 96; Chorleton, Chorelton, 1212 ; 

 Chorlton, 1278. Cholerton, perhaps by mistake, 

 XV cent. 



This township, formerly known as Chorlton Row,' 

 lies on the south side of the Medlock, and has an area 

 of 646^ acres.* It has long been urban in character, 

 the plan of 1793 showing that a large number of 

 streets were then being laid out. It was crossed near 

 the centre by Cornbrook, and had Rusholme Brook, a 

 tributary of the former, for its southern boundary. 

 The district called Greenheys lies in the south-west, 

 in the angle between the two brooks. In 1 90 1 there 

 was a population of 57,894. 



The principal streets are Oxford Street and Upper 

 Brook Street, going south-east from the centre of 

 Manchester ; the latter has an offshoot called Ply- 

 mouth Grove, in a more easterly direction, reaching 

 the Stockport Road, which runs along the eastern 

 boundary, near Longsight. There are many public 

 buildings in the township, in addition to churches and 

 schools. On the west of Oxford Street is Grosvenor 

 Square, on one side of which stands the town hall, 

 built in 1831, with police station, dispensary, and 

 school of art adjacent ; the union offices are situated 

 on another side of the square. Further to the south, 

 in the same street, lie the extensive buildings of 

 Owens College, founded in Quay Street in 1 851, and 

 transferred to this site in 1873 ; it is now the seat 

 of the Victoria University of Manchester. On the 



229 Baines, Lanes. Dir. ii, 140. They 

 had another in Gartside Street in 1826. 



230 In the whole parish in 1626 there 

 were only four * convicted recusants and 

 non-communicants' paying specially; Lay 

 Subs. R. 131/312. For presentments 

 of recusants at the beginning of the 

 17th century see Matich. Constables' Accts. 

 i, 56, 162, 165. 



231 Royalist Comf. Papers (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), iv, 122, 123. 



232 J^otitia Cestr. ii, 57, &c. Susannah 

 Reddish, widow, in 1717 as a 'papist' 

 registered a small estate in Salford ; Est- 

 court and Payne, Engl, Cath, Non-jurors, 

 153. In 1729 the Rev. Will. Huddle- 

 ston, O.S.B., publicly renounced his re- 

 ligion in the Collegiate Church ; Manch, 

 Guardian N, and Q,no, 1263; Lac, Glean- 

 ings, ii, 128. 



233 Trans. Hist. Soe. (New Ser.), xviii, 

 214. The details of the chapelries were; 

 Manchester, 287 ; Blackley, i ; Chorlton, 

 I (viz. Mr. Barlow) ; Salford, 64 ; Stret- 

 ford, 20 (exclusive of Mr. TrafFord, who 

 lived mostly at York), 



asj This account is chiefly derived from 



a statement prepared by Mr. Joseph Gil- 

 low in 1902. Thomas Weedon, a Wor- 

 cestershire man, was admitted to the 

 English College at Rome in 1658, and 

 was seat on the mission in 1663 ; Foley, 

 Rec. S.J. vi, 395. 



235 Manch. Guardian N. and Q. no. 278. 

 Baines, on the other hand, states that ' in 

 the early part of the last (i 8th) century the 

 Catholics had a chapel in Smithy Door, 

 in a building now the Grey Horse public- 

 house, behind which there is still a large 

 unoccupied piece of ground, then used as 

 a burial ground * ; Lanes. Dir. ii, 139. 



236 ' At that time toleration was not 

 sufficiently liberal to allow any insulated 

 Catholic chapel, and like all others of 

 that day, the one under consideration is 

 attached to a dwelling-house ' ; Aston, 

 Manch. fi8i6), 93. A description fol- 

 lows. 



2351 The builder was one of the most 

 notable personages in Manchester in his 

 time — Rowland Broomhead, a Yorkshire- 

 man, born 1 75 1, educated at the English 

 College, Rome, and ordained priest in 

 1775. He was sent to Manchester in 



251 



1778, and laboured there till his death in 

 1820, gaining universal respect; Gillow, 

 Bihl. Diet, of Engl. Cath. i, 316. 



237 This is about to be closed, the site 

 being required by the corporation. It is 

 to be rebuilt in Chorlton-upon-Medlock. 



23S There were stormy scenes at this 

 church in 1846, the priest in charge 

 (Daniel Hearne) having a dispute with the 

 Vicar Apostolic ; Gillow, Bihl. Diet, of 

 Engl. Catb. iii, 232. 



232 Aston, Manch. 105 ; Baines, Lanes. 

 Dir. ii, 141. 



1 This name is found in 1594 ; Ducatus 

 Lane. (Rec. Com.), iii, 299. It was usual 

 down to the first part of last century. 

 The name may be connected with the 

 Roocroft mentioned in a deed cited below. 

 Row is popularly supposed to have refer- 

 ence to a former avenue of trees from 

 London Road up to Chorlton Hall, but 

 the name is much older than any such 

 row of trees. The epithet was due to a 

 desire to distinguish the township from 

 the other Chorlton, now called Chorlton 

 with Hardy, 



2 647 acres 5 Census Rep. 1901. 



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