Bacup, St. John the Evangelist
1788-2010
Archives
Total copies: 1
Records of the Incumbent including: baptism registers 1788-2009; burial registers 1788-1927; marriage registers 1838-2007, banns books 1838-2010, 1919-1975; registers of services 1887-1969; letters relating to dilapidations 1877-1878; provisional valuations under Finance Act of 1910, 1915; plans of parsonage 1881; papers relating to history of Church.
Records of the Churchwardens' including: papers relating to incumbents 1867-1878; Churchwardens' (later parish parochial council) accounts 1817-1867, 1899-1965; Vestry minutes 1818-1958; ledgers 1923-1947; collection accounts 1945-1956; rough account book 1936-1943; guarantee fund accounts 1953-1959; annual statement of accounts 1880, 1901-1920, 1937, 1940-1963, 1965, 1969, 1971; faculties 1879, 1895, 1911; plans c1880, 1937; inventory and terrier 1825, 1911.
Parochial Church Council minutes 1929-1954. Letters relating to John Bolton Trust 1919-1933. Day and Sunday School records including: Bacup National School Trustees' minutes 1830-1859; St John's Sunday School, Bacup, Trustees' minutes 1907-1969; correspondence about repairing School 1877; grant of part of School land to Backup Corporation 1908; correspondence about trust deed 1950; proposed Ministry of Education scheme for St John the Evangelist Old National School 1957-1964. Bacup Board of Health minutes (to deal with cholera epidemic) 1831-1832.
Related Material:The Archives Department also has Archdeacon John Rushton's Visitation Papers, mid 19th century, which include circulars appealing for funds for restoration, 1854 and 1865, and Rushton's queries as to statements made in the latter, 1865 (MSf 942.72 R121 vol 75).
Inventory and terrier records are photocopies, originals held at Lancashire Records Office.
Place:/Bacup/Spotland/Rochdale/Lancashire/England
Title:
Bacup, St. John the Evangelist
Date of work:
1788-2010
Reference number:
GB127.L102
Level of description:
Fonds
Includes:
Custodial history:
The original Church of St John was consecrated on 16 August 1788. In 1863 it was in such a poor state of repair that the walls had to be propped up. From 1877 services were held in the School until a new church was built on the same site and consecrated on 21 June 1883. This was designed by Medland Taylor and Henry Taylor. A District was assigned to St John's by Order in Council, 2 November 1842 (London Gazette, 3 January 1843), comprising Bacup Booth in the township of Newchurch and parish of Whalley and Higher Brandwood in the township of Spotland and the parish of Rochdale. The new church of Christchurch, Bacup was given part of St John's District, by Bishop's Instrument 9 December 1854, and another part of the parish was transferred to the new District of St Saviour's, Bacup, by Order in Council 3 February 1866 (London Gazette 6 February).
Source:
These records were deposited in the Library as Diocesan Record Office in July 1982 by Rev M Holt and in Oct 2006 by The Rev David Woodall.
Access restrictions:
UnrestrictedManchester Archives and Local Studies hold the following:
Parish registers on microfilm - baptisms 1788-1838 (MFPR 124) 1838-1950 (MFPR 1190), marriages 1838-1906 (MFPR 1191), burials 1788-1853 (MFPR 124)
Use restrictions:
Unrestricted
General notes:
Old Accession Number: 2006/54 2013/39 2014/2
Topics:
Record types:
Manchester Archives and Local Studies
Language:
English
Record number:
7182998