BLACKBURN HUNDRED 



WHALLEY 



the peace was granted in 1893.™ In the same year 

 a school board was formed. The police belong to 

 the county constabulary, but the fire brigade is the 

 town's. In addition to the public buildings, schools 

 and churches, Nelson has political club-houses, banks 

 and a theatre. 



A small chapel existed at M.irsden 

 CHURCH before the Reformation, its chalice being 

 seized by the Crown about 1547." 

 Whitaker describes it as 'a very poor and mean 

 structure, apparently of the age of Henry VIII, and 

 with the cipher IHS on the little belfry. In the 

 yard was a very large block of freestone, the base of a 

 cross.' *' It was secured for the inhabitants " and 

 served by the curate of Colne, but used only 

 occasionally,'* though a small endowment belonged to 

 it.** In 1809 it was pulled down and rebuilt, and at 

 the next vacancy at Colne a resident incumbent was 

 appointed.** It is called St. Paul's, Little Marsden, 

 and has a net income of j^348.'' A district was 

 assigned to it in 1877.^ The Hulme Trustees are 

 patrons. 



The following have been curates and vicars : — 



1 8 14 John Hutchinson 



1852 Thomas Molineux Jackson, M.A. (Brase- 



nose Coll., Oxf ) 

 1864 James Wilson Taylor, M.A. (Brasenose 



Coll., Oxf.) 

 1876 Horatio Bendey, M.A. (Brasenose Coll., 



Oxf) 

 1891 Henry Joseph Stephens, B.A. (Brasenose 



CoU., Oxf) 

 1898 Herbert Taylor, M.A.*' (Brasenose Coll., 



Oxf) 



More recent churches and patrons are : St. John 

 the Evangelist's, Great Marsden, i 848,'° the Crown 

 and the Bishop of Manchester alternately ; St. Luke's, 

 Brierfield, 1872," the Bishop of Manchester; St. 

 Mary's, Nelson, 1879," five trustees ; and St. 

 Philip's, Nelson, 1902, the Bishop of Manchester. 

 To Great Marsden belong the mission churches of 

 Holy Trinity, Primet Bridge and St. James, 

 Waterside. 



Methodism has long been represented in Marsden. 

 The Wesleyan Methodists now have four churches 

 at Nelson and one at Brierfield"; the Primitive 

 Methodists two at Nelson and another at Brierfield ; 



the Methodist Free Church and the Independent 

 Methodists each one at Nelson. 



The Congregationalists in 1837 built Providence 

 Chapel on Marsden Height, the result of services 

 begun in 1835. Evening services were begun at 

 Brierfield in 1873, where a school-chapel was opened 

 in 1878, when the old chapel ceased to be used, 

 except as a school."' At Nelson services were begun 

 in 1865 and soon afterwards Hope Chapel was built, 

 which has been succeeded by the present church in 

 Manchester Road, begun in 1884. The old building 

 was sold in I 890."' A second church has been opened 

 more recently. 



The Baptists have three churches at Nelson, the 

 earliest dating from 1874, and another at Brierfield. 



The Society of Friends has had members in 

 Marsden since about 1660.°° A meeting-place on 

 Marsden Height was erected early in the i8th 

 century." It was afterwards converted into cottages, 

 when the new Meeting House was erected near 

 Edgend about the year 1760.'* 



The Roman Catholic church of St. Joseph, Nelson, 

 was built in 1897, having been preceded by a school- 

 chapel in 1883 "' ; St. Saviour's, Bradley, was opened 

 in 1898, and there is a cemetery chapel. All Souls', 

 which is used for service. At Walverden is a chapel 

 of ease, St. George's, 1899, served from St. Joseph's. 

 There are two convents, those of the Franciscan 

 Sisters and St. Joseph's Foreign Missionary Sisters. 

 The mission of Holy Trinity, Brierfield, was estab- 

 lished from Nelson in 1895-6. 



BARROWFORD BOOTH 



Barouford, 1324. Blakay, 1324. 



This township has irregular boundaries and appears 

 to have been composed anciently of a number of 

 separate estates or clearings in the Forest of Pendle. 

 It lies in the valley of a stream called Admergill 

 Water which enters the township from Yorkshire 

 through a clough named the Hole and flows south 

 and east till it is joined by the stream from Roughlee ; 

 then it turns south to pass through Barrowford 

 proper, consisting of the old hamlets or villages of 

 Higherford and Lowerford, which extend along its 

 right bank. Then the stream, here called Barrow- 

 ford Beck, is joined by Colne Water coming from 

 the east and shortly afterwards turns west round the 



™ The town clerk of Nelson has afforded 

 information to the editors. 



"' Raines, Chantries (Chet. Soc), 

 269. 



«2 Whitaker, Whalley, ii, 263. 



" Clitheroe Ct. R. of 4 Edw. VI (Hal- 

 mote of Ightenhill). 



^ It was served by ' a bare reader ' in 

 i6io; he was paid by the inhabitants; 

 Hht. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. iv, lo. 

 It is not mentioned at all in the Church 

 Survey of 1650. In 1717 it had a sermon 

 one Sunday afternoon in the month by the 

 curate of Colne ; Gastrell, Notitia Cestr. 

 (Chet. Soc), ii, 336. 



Curates were nominated for Marsden 

 from 1738 to 1784, as appears by the 

 church papers at Chester Dioc. Reg. viz. : — 

 1738, Thomas Butterfield ; 1739, Elias 

 Harrison ; 1742, Joshua Crowther ; 1750, 

 Michael Smith, B.A. ; 1755, William 

 Fryer; 1756, Henry Wilson, B.A. (St. 

 John's Coll., Camb.). Then the incum- 

 t bents of Colne were nominated to this 



curacy till 1814. Before 1811 it was 

 served only once a fortnight and then but 

 once in the day. 



«5 It had 161. id. in 1717 ; Gastrell, 

 loc. cit. 



"<■ whitaker, op. cit. ii, 264. It was 

 Dr. V.'hitakcr who effected the changes. 



*' Manch. Dioc. Dir. 



>*'' Lond. Gj3. 20 Feb. 1877. 



'° Mr. Taylor has assisted the editors 

 in compiling this list. 



9" The district was formed in 1845; 

 Lond. Gaz. 3 Sept. 1845. 



91 For district see ibid. 4 Mar. 

 1873. 



9^ For district see ibid. 19 Aug. 1879. 

 The church was enlarged in 1908. 



9S The first Wesleyan chapel was built 

 in 181 1. 



"* B. Nightingale, Lanes. Nonconf. ii, 

 169. 



"Slbid. 173. 



9^ In 166; Richard Hargreaves, John 

 Hartley and fifteen others were presented 



;4i 



to the Bishop of Chester * for Quakers' ; 

 Visit. Returns. 



Marsden gives a title to a monthly 

 meeting for a district embracing a large 

 part of East Lancashire, from Bolton and 

 Rochdale north to the Ribble. 



'-'' A house at Marsden was certified in 

 1689 i Hist. MSS. Com. Rep. xiv, App. iv, 

 230. A Quakers' meeting-house at 

 * Colne' Vfzs named in 1717 by Bishop 

 Gastrell. At that time there were twenty- 

 four Quaker families known ; Notitia 

 Cestr. ii, 324. 



9^ At Marsden Height a piece of land 

 was acquired in 1704, but the meeting- 

 house built on It had been converted into 

 cottages before 1807 j Quaker Charities 

 Rep. 1905. There are burial-grounds at 

 Little Marsden, Marsden Height and 

 Heyhead ; the first-named is still used, 



^9 Thepriest-in-charge,the Rev.Richard 

 Smith, has afforded the editors informa- 

 tion about the missions In Blackburn and 

 Whalley. 



