SALFORD HUNDRED 



MANCHESTER 



1707 No curate 

 1717 Joseph Dale " 



1720 Thomas Wright, B.A.*° (Brasenose Col- 



lege, Oxf.) 



1 72 1 John Tetlow, B.A.'" 



1742 John Leech, B.A. (St. Catharine's Hall, 

 Camb.) 

 oc. 1 746 Robert Twyford, B.A.*' (Brasenose Col- 

 lege, Oxf.) 



1746 William Twyford, B.A.*" (St. John's 

 College, Camb.) 



1752 Thomas Ainscough, M.A." (St. John's 

 College, Camb.) 



1762 Miles Lonsdale, M.A." (Brasenose Col- 

 lege, Oxf.) 



1769 Henry Ainsworth 



1795 Rowland Blayney, B.A. (St. Alban 

 Hall, Oxf.) 



1838 Francis Philips Hulme, B.A. (St. Alban 



Hall, Oxf.) 



1839 George Gardner Harter, M.A." (Trinity 



College, Oxf.) 



1840 Oliver Ormerod, M.A." (Brasenose 



College, Oxf) 



1 841 George Dugard, M.A." (St. John's 



College, Camb.) 

 1 846 George Henry Greville Anson, M.A.™ 



(Exeter College, Oxf.) 

 1898 Frederick George BuUer, M. A.«' (Trinity 



College, Oxf.) 



Holy Trinity Church was consecrated in 1 846 ; 

 the patron is Mrs. N. Tindal-Carill-Worsley.'" St. 

 John's, Longsight, was consecrated in the same year ; 

 the patronage is vested in trustees." St. Chrysostom's, 

 Victoria Park, was first consecrated in 1877," and St. 

 Agnes's in 1885 ; the Bishop of Manchester is patron 

 of both. There is a chapel at St. Mary's Home. 



An ' English School,' not free, existed at Birch 

 about 1720." 



The Wesleyan Methodists, Primitive Methodists, 

 and United Free Methodists have churches, and the 

 last-named denomination has a theological college in 

 Victoria Park. The Congregationalists began services 

 in 1839, and a small chapel built by Baptists was 

 acquired in 1853. After many vicissitudes the present 

 ■church was built in 1864." The Baptists have a 

 college for students for the ministry," with a chapel 

 attached ; they have another church at Longsight. 



On the ejection of Henry Finch from Birch Chapel 

 he continued to minister in the neighbourhood, and 

 in 1700 Piatt Chapel was opened for the use of the 



Nonconformists — the Worsleys, donors of the site, 

 Edges, and Siddalls being the principal members of 

 the congregation." The teaching became Unitarian 

 in the course of the i8th century, and Piatt Chapel 

 is now used by the Unitarians of the neighbourhood. 

 Their Home Missionary College, founded in Man- 

 chester, is now in Victoria Park. 



The Roman Catholic Church of St. Edward was 

 built in 1861. There are two industrial schools, 

 called St. Joseph's, for boys and girls. 



LEVENSHULME 



Lewenesholm, 1361. 



This township is bounded on the north by Nico 

 Ditch, on the east by Pinkbank Lane,' and on the 

 south by the Black Brook. The surface is level, 

 sloping down a little towards the west. The area 

 measures 605^ acres.' A house called the Manor 

 House stands near the northern border. There was 

 a population of 11,485 in 1 90 1. 



The Stockport Road from Manchester crosses the 

 township in a southerly and south-easterly direction. 

 Adlands Lane and Barlow Lane go eastward through 

 the centre, passing through the hamlet of Back Levens- 

 hulme, to the south of which lies Cradock Fold. The 

 London and North- Western Company's railway from 

 Manchester to London passes through the western 

 side of the township, having a station named Levens- 

 hulme and Burnage about the centre. The Great 

 Central Company's line from London Road to Central 

 Station, Manchester, crosses the other railway near 

 the southern border, where there is a station called 

 Levenshulme. 



The western half of the township has become a 

 residential suburb of Manchester ; the eastern half 

 has print works, bleach works, dye works, and mattress 

 works, also several farms. 



A local board was formed in 1865 ; ' this afterwards 

 became an urban district council of twelve members, 

 but they have recently agreed to incorporation with 

 Manchester. A Carnegie free library was opened in 

 1904. 



John Ellor Taylor, a native of the township, 

 1837-95, has a place in the Dictionary of National 

 Biography. 



The manor of LEVENSHULME, a 



MANOR dependency of Withington, was in 1 3 1 9 in 



the possession of Sir William de Baguley of 



Baguley in Cheshire, and by a settlement made in that 



year it passed to his grandson William Legh of Baguley,* 



58 Also of Chorlton Chapel. 



59 Ibid. 



™ Brother-in-law of the patron. 



81 Also curate of Didsbury. 



"■' Son of the preceding and curate of 

 Didsbury for a time. 



88 Became one of the fellows of the 

 Collegiate Church ; Raines, Fellows (Chet. 

 Soc), 268. 



'< Afterwards rector of Gawsworth. 



** He and his two successors were under 

 bond to resign in favour of the patron's 

 grandson. 



" Afterwards rector of Presteign. 



'" Librarian of the Chetham Library 

 1834-7 ; incumbent of Barnard Castle, 

 1847. 



" Archdeacon of Manchester 1 870-90. 



•• Brother-in-law of the patron. 



7" Booker, Birch, 159. 



'' Ibid. The district assigned in 1851 

 was reconstituted in 1854; Lond. Gaz. 

 16 June. 



72 For district see Land. Gaz, 21 May 

 1878. It was rebuilt a few years ago 

 after a fire. 



78 Gastrell, Notitia, ii, 80. 



7* Nightingale, Lanes. Nonconf. v, 162-5 • 



7' It was founded at Chamber Hall near 

 Bury in i860 and removed to Rusholme 

 in 1874. 



7' Booker, op. cit. 1 60-70. A plan of 

 the chapel in 1700 is printed on p. 165. 

 See also Nightingale, op. cit. v, 147-58 ; 

 it is stated that 'no doctrinal test is 

 applied either to minister or congregation.' 



1 Pink Pank Lane was the older form 

 of the name ; it was also called the 



Old London Road ; see Booker, Bireh 

 Chapel (Chet. Soc), 173. 



" 606 acres, including 7 of inland water ; 

 Census Rep. 1901. 



' Land. Gaz. 2 May 1865. 



* By the settlement named Sir William 

 de Baguley and his son John arranged 

 that in default of other issue the estate 

 was to go in succession to William, John, 

 and Geoffrey sons of Sir John de Legh 

 of the Booths in Knutsford ; Sir John 

 had married Isabel (or Ellen) daughter of 

 Sir William. On John de Bagulcy's death 

 William de Legh succeeded accordingly ; 

 Ormerod, CAes. (ed. Helsby), i, 550, where 

 an account of the family of Legh of Bagu- 

 ley is giren. The date of the deed as 

 given by Sir Peter Leycester appears 

 doubtful in view of the other dates — e.g. 



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