BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



WHALLEY 



was allowed to continue, and, as in other cases, a sum 

 representing the net value of the chantry was paid to 

 the chaplain out of the duchy revenues.^' 



The church stands on high ground at the north end 

 of the town on the ancient site. The 15th-century 

 chapel appears to have been rebuilt about the time of 

 Henry VIII, but the nave having become ruinous 

 was pulled down, and a new one built in 1766, 'with 

 an attention to economy not very laudable among so 

 opulent a body of parishioners."' The old tower, 

 however, was left standing, and was described in 1866 

 by Sir Stephen Glynne as ' of the local Perpendicular 

 type, of ordinary character with battlement and 

 pinnacles.' The original early 16th-century east 

 window had also been retained, but everything else was 

 ' modem and bad.' " This building, however, had 

 already been condemned and was pulled down the 

 same year, when the foundation-stone of the present 

 church was laid. The building, which was not finished 

 till 1869, is of stone and consists of a chancel with 

 north and south aisles, north and south transepts, 

 clearstoried nave of five bays with north and south 

 aisles, south porch, and tower at the west end of the 

 south aisle. It is a good example of modern Gothic 

 15th-century style, with high-pitched slated roofs and 

 embattled tower with lofty pinnacles. There are 

 galleries in the transepts. 



The old octagonal stone font presented by John 

 Pasle w, last Abbot of Whalley, in 1525 has been pre- 

 served. Its sides are panelled and carved with the 

 emblems of the Passion and the sacred monograms in 

 shields, and a shield charged with three molets. At 

 the east end of the floor of the nave is a brass to 

 Thomas Yate, ' servante to the right worshipfuU 

 Richard Shuttleworth 34 yeares,' who died at Gaw- 

 thorpe 30 May 1643, with a rhyming inscription." 

 Close by is a stone with the name of Sir Richard 

 Shuttleworth 27 July 1687. In the south aisle is a 

 modern brass to Sir J. P. Kay-Shuttlewonh of Gaw- 

 thorpe, who died in 1877, and in the Starkie chapel 

 on the south side of the chancel are mural monuments 

 to many members of the Starkie family. 



Some fragments of heraldic and other old glass are 

 inserted in the window of the vestry." 



There is a ring of eight bells. Six were cast in 

 1842, and in 1901 a seventh and a tenor bell were 

 added in memory of Colonel Le GenJre Starkie 

 (d. 1 899), and the whole recast by Mears & Stain- 

 bank." 



The plate consists of a chalice, paten and flagon 

 inscribed ' Padiham Church 1803,' and with the 

 Starkie arms ; a chalice given by Mr. L. G. N. 

 Starkie and Mrs. Starkie in 1863 ; and a paten 

 ' Presented to Padiham Church by F. Rounthwaite 

 1865.' 



The registers begin in June 1573." 



The visitation lists show that in 1548 there were 

 three priests in addition to the cantarist, but one of 

 them died about that time, and another disappeared 

 before 1554; then the third went, and in 1562-3 

 only the old chantry priest remained." In 1565 

 another name is given, but from that time there 

 appears to have been no more than the one minister, 

 until modern changes demanded new arrangements. 

 It does not appear who nominated these curates — pro- 

 bably it was the vicar of Whalley — but in 1730 the 

 advowson was acquired by Piers Starkie of Hunt- 

 royde, who had given j£200 to the endowment," and 

 it has since descended in his family, Mr. E. A. Le 

 Gendre Starkie being now the patron. 



In the Commonwealth time an allowance of 

 £^0 was made to the curate out of Royalist seques- 

 trations,*' but in 1717 the certified income was not 

 quite j^l6, the addition to the duchy pension being 

 derived from benefactions by members of the Starkie 

 family and others and from fees.** More recent 

 augmentations have raised the present net value to 

 £286 a year." 



The following have been incumbents : — 



Chantry Priests 



1445 Oliver Hall" 



i486 Ralph Taylor" 



1495 John Shuttleworth '' 



1496 William Hesketh '* 

 1503 Tristram Yate " 

 1505 Thomas Brook " 

 1514 Hugh Hargreaves " 



* ornaments,' &c., seized by the Crown 

 agents ; Raines, op. cit. 263, 277, 280. 

 Two bells were sold by the commis- 

 sioners of Edward VI ; Augm. Off". Misc. 

 Bks. clxx, m, 5. 



'' Whitaker, op. cit. ii, 50. The sum 

 nominally due was £6 igi, zd.^ but de- 

 ductions were made. 



«9 Whitaker, fThalley (ed. 3, 181 8), 

 268, A brief for the rebuilding was 

 issued in 1763. 



*" Glynne, Churches of Lanes. (Chet. 

 Soc. new ser. xxvii), 45. 



*^ The inscription is as follows : — 



Heare lyes interr'd 

 within this earth w 

 horn cruell death dep 

 rived of breath who 

 livinge threescore ye 

 ares & odd resygnes ag 

 aine his soule to God. 



*^ Notes on the arms formerly to be 

 seen in the church arc In Kuerden MSS. vi, 

 fol. 48. 



■*•* The inscriptions on the old bells 

 were: (i) *S. J. C. Adamson, incum- 

 bent.' {2 and 3) names of church- 

 wardens. (4) 'Dono 4th 1842 Janet 



Shuttleworth.' (5) 'Dono 5th 1842 Le 

 Gendre N. Starkie.' (6) 'Dono 6th 1842 

 John Dugdale and brother.' These were 

 retained in 1 90 1, and the names of the 

 vicar (Henry Haworth), churchwardens 

 and sidesmen added. 



** The entries 1573-1653 have been 

 printed by the Lanes. Par. Reg. Soc. 

 1903. 



" Visit. Lists at Chester Dioc. Reg. 



■« Gastrell, Notitia Cestr. (Chet. Soc), 

 ii, 343 n. 



■" In 1650 a grant of £^0 a year was 

 ordered out of Mr. Clifton's sequestered 

 estate ; Plund. Mins. Accts. (Rec. Soc. 

 Lanes, and Ches.), i, 89, 92. This sum 

 was actually paid in 1651-3 ; ibid. 237, 

 249. An order for ^^33 10s. had been 

 made in 1648, and was in force in 1650 ; 

 Whitaker, op. cit. i, 221 ; Commonw, 

 Ch, Surv. (Rec. Soc. Lanes, and Ches.), 

 164. 



*^ Gastrell, loc. cit. There were four 

 wardens. 



■" Manch. Dioc. Dir. 



5» Lich. Epis. Reg. xi, fol. 38*. He 

 was apparently the first chaplain of St. 

 Leonard's chantry, and was presented by 

 the founder, John Marshall. In a modern 



495 



list in the parish register books one 

 William Booth is named as * clerk, of 

 Padiham,' in 1470. Perhaps the date 

 should be 1 570. 



*' Ibid, xii, fol. 121. He was presented 

 by Guy Marshall. The cause of vacancy 

 is not given. 



52 Ibid, xiii, fol. 158 i on the death of 

 R. Taylor, Guy Marshall being patron. 



5' Ibid. fol. 230 ; by Guy Marshall, of 

 Etton in Yorkshire, on the death of J. 

 Shuttleworth. 



'■• Raines, Chantries, 144, citing Blyth's 

 Reg. W. Hesketh was dead. 



'' Ibid. ; presented by Richard Marshall 

 on the death of T. Yate. 



In 1512 the curate of Padiham was 

 ordered, in virtue of the obedience due 

 by him to the Apostolic see, to cite Alice 

 wife of John Stevenson to appear to give 

 evidence at the Abbot of Whalley's court 

 in a marriage suit ; ActBk. oflVhalley, 13. 



*« Lich. Epis. Reg. xiii-xiv, fol. 58*; 

 presented by Richard Marshall on the 

 resignation of T. Brook. 



About this time Padiham Chapel is 

 frequently mentioned as a place where 

 public penance was performed ; Act Bl{. 

 of Whalley, \ 34, &c. Hugh Hargfeaves 



