A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



pari;.lies of the above-mentioned deans show it to have been." It would appear to have included 

 the greater part, if not the whole, of that portion of the archdeaconry of Richmond which lay on the 

 western side of the Pennine ridge. Furness was certainly within it originally," though it is 

 mentioned as a separate deanery as early as 1247." 



By 1 29 1, the date of the Taxation of Pope Nicholas, the deanery of Lancaster had ceased to 

 exist, and its parishes had been distributed among three deaneries, only one of which was entirely 

 in the county." They were within the archdeaconry of Richmond, and were as follows : — 



Amolnderness, containing the ten parishes of Chipping, Cockerham, Garstang, Kirkham, 

 Lancaster, Lytham, Poulton, Preston, Ribchestcr, St. Michael-on-VVyre. 



(Kirkby) Lonsdale and Kendal, containing the nine parishes of Bolton-le-Sands (not taxed), 

 Claughton, Halton, Heysham, Melling, Tatham, Tunstall, Warton, Whittington (with 

 ten Westmorland and Yorkshire parishes). 



CoPELAND (and FuRNESs), containing the seven parishes of Aldingham, Cartmel, Dalton, Kirkby 

 Ireleth (not taxed), Pennington, Ulverston, Urswick (with twenty Cumberland parishes). 



These three deaneries were included in the new diocese of Chester on its creation in 1541. 

 The deanery of Amounderness was unaltered except for the omission of Lytham from taxation ; 

 the other two deaneries had been subdivided thus : — 



Kirkby Lonsdale, containing the five Lancashire parishes of Claughton, Melling, Tatham, 

 Tunstall, Whittington (with five Yorkshire and Westmorland parishes). 



Kendal, containing the four Lancashire parishes of Bolton-le-Sands, Halton, Heysham, 

 Warton (with five Westmorland parishes). 



Furness and Cartmel, containing the seven parishes of Aldingham, Cartmel, Dalton, 

 Kirkby Ireleth, Pennington, Ulverston, Urswick (originally in Copeland deanery). 



Copeland, containing no Lancashire parishes. 



The growth of the population of Lancashire in the nineteenth century necessitated a drastic 

 revision of the ecclesiastical organization of the county. The bishopric of Chester was becoming 

 too important as well as too unwieldy to be managed by a single hand. The needs of the situation 

 were set forth in the third report of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1836, and finally in 1847 

 the new diocese of Manchester was created." The old collegiate church was made the cathedral, 

 its warden becoming dean of the chapter constituted there, which includes four residentiary canons 

 and a number of honorary ones.'" The deaneries of Amounderness, Blackburn, Manchester, and 

 Leyland, together with the parish of Leigh in the deanery of Warrington, and such parts of the 

 deaneries of Kendal and Kirkby Lonsdale as were within the county were taken out of the diocese of 

 Chester and formed into the new diocese, which was made subject to the metropolitan jurisdiction 

 of York and divided into two archdeaconries, Manchester and Lancaster.^' In 1877 a new arch- 

 deaconry of Blackburn was carved out of that of Manchester. Thus the diocese of Manchester 

 consists (1907) of the three archdeaconries of Manchester, Lancaster, and Blackburn. That of 

 Manchester now consists of twelve deaneries : — The deanery of the cathedral containing 27 parishes ; ^^ 

 Ardwick containing 39 parishes ; Cheetham containing 22 parishes ; Hulme containing 33 parishes ; 

 Salford containing 24 parishes ; Ashton-under-Lyne containing 24 parishes ; Bolton containing 

 51 parishes; Bury containing 24 parishes; Eccles containing 25 parishes; Oldham containing 

 25 parishes ; Prestwich and Middleton containing 16 parishes ; Rochdale containing 26 parishes. 



The archdeaconry of Blackburn consists of four deaneries : Blackburn containing 39 parishes ; 

 Burnley containing 28 parishes ; Whalley containing 39 parishes ; Leyland containing 31 parishes. 



The archdeaconry of Lancaster consists of five deaneries : Amounderness containing 1 9 parishes ; 

 Preston containing 26 parishes; 'The Fylde ' containing 21 parishes; Garstang containing; 

 16 parishes; Tunstall *' containing 17 parishes. 



Besides the creation of the diocese of Manchester provision was made in 1 847 for the trans- 

 ference of the deanery of Furness and Cartmel from the diocese of Chester to that of Carlisle at the 



" Lana. Pipe R. 33S, 361. 



'* Meeting of the chapter of Lancaster at Aldingham {Coucher of Furness, 435-6). 

 '' Ibid. 656. " Pope Mch. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 307^, 308. 



" Stat. 10 &: 1 1 Vict. cap. 108. " Lond. Gaz. 



" Le Neve, Fasti, iii, 333. 



" The parishes here enumerated are the modem ecclesiastical parishes. 



" This deanery represents the Lancashire portions of the deaneries of Kirkby Lonsdale and Kendal. 



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