Prestwich, St. Mary
12th cent.-1985
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Records of the Incumbent including: baptism registers 1603-1936; marriage registers 1603-1972; burial registers 1603-1921; indexes to registers 1695-1939; banns books 1809-1821, 1851-1856, 1874-1985; confirmation register 1941-1954; register of services 1884-1973; the advowson 1709-1711; boundaries and jurisdiction of the ancient parish of Prestwich cum Oldham 1406-1964; medieval deeds of glebe land 12th century -1433; plans of glebe land 1901-1916; deeds of glebe land 1925-1956; medieval deeds relating to tithes 1454-1656; proposal for granting Oldham tithes to St. Mary's and other Oldham churches 1861-1908; certificates of redemption of tithe rentcharges 1888-1934; history, undated.
Records of the Churchwardens and Vestry including: churchwardens accounts 1656-1921, churchwardens' and overseers of the poor accounts 1646-1683; vestry minutes 1721-1922; church briefs 1678-1746; offerings 1685-1856; analysed accounts 1934-1952; bequests 1875-1884; faculties 1791-1928; alteration and restoration papers 1871-1889; Lever Chapel 1716-1875.
Minutes of the Church Council 1904-1920; charities papers 1844-1915; Day School correspondence 1900-1905; parish constables accounts 1760-1841. Records of the Overseers of the Poor: poor rate assessments 1802-1810; account of poor stock 1698-1737; overseers' accounts 1740-1802, and distribution of Christmas Linen 1739, 1759-1799; register of parish apprentices 1803-1828. Records of Leypayers of Outwood: minutes relating to poor relief 1816-1835
Related Material:Parochial Church Council minutes not deposited.
Other Documents in the Archives Department Relating to St Mary's, Prestwich
Papers relating to appointments of rectors, 1569-1837 (M39/5/l/l-18); Papers relating to appointment of curates, 1749-1831 (M39/5/3/l-ll0); Papers relating to appointment of assistant curates, 1758-1760 (M39/5/4/l-5); Papers relating to Lever Chapel, 1806-1916 (M39/5/5/l-35); Counterpart leases of Sandhole Field, part of glebe land, 1806 (M39/5/6/l, 2); Estimates and plans for new rectory, 1836-1837 (M39/5/2/l-ll); Engraving of old rectory,
1837 (Ll/60/2/105, 106); Engravings of church, 1851-1857 (Ll/60/2/107-109); Photographic copies of deeds of glebe, 12th c.-1560 (MISC/162/l-12); Letter about patronage, 1905 (Ll/58/l/156); Letter from Rev. F. W. Cooper about whereabouts of tithe map, 1908 (Ll/58/l/165); Notes on church by John Owen, antiquary, 19th c. (MISC/687/2); 'Brief History', by Canon F. Paton-Williams, post 1940 (L147/3/23/64)
'Prestwich The Priests' Retreat', by I. S. Pratt, 1973 (L147/3/23/65)
Archdeacon John Rushton's Visitation Papers include: notes on church and clergy; engraving of old church, no date; watercolour of rectory, no date; surveys and valuations of glebe, 1779-1795; account of corn tithes for each township, 1784-1790; return to Bishops visitation, 1778; circular recording resolution of vestry, 3 January 1859, to erect an east window in memory of Countess of Wilton; copy of terrier, 1696 (original among Wilton papers); notes on faculties for improvements to church, 1714-1801; ground plan of church, no date, (printed); notes of Sir Thomas Grey Egerton's Charity, and other charities; proposal to make Oldham a separate parish, 1827; Notes on the schools in Prestwich; visitation returns on church and school, 15 May 1846; subscribers to the choir, no date; Act to enable trustees of estates of Win. Hulme to use funds for Endowment of Benefices and Building of Churches 1839, and return of names of Hulme MSf 942.72 R121 v.54
See also Rev John Booker's Memorials of the Church in Prestwich, 1852. (283.4272 P4)
Place:/Prestwich with Oldham/Lancashire/England
Title:
Prestwich, St. Mary
Date of work:
12th cent.-1985
Reference number:
GB127.L160
Level of description:
Fonds
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Custodial history:
A church probably existed at Prestwich from the 12th century, and the present church dates from about 1450. The parish of Prestwich cum Oldham originally covered the townships of Prestwich, Great Heaton, Little Heaton, Tonge with Alkrington, Pilkington (which included the hamlets of Whitefield, Outwood and Unsworth), Oldham, Chadderton, Crompton and Royton, and until the middle of the 17th century the Oldham area contributed towards bread and wine for St Mary's, even though a chapel, also dedicated to St Mary, existed at Oldham from the middle
of the 15th century. (See GB127.L160/l/14).
The next chapel in the parish to be built was at Shaw before 1515, followed by St Saviour's, Ringley in 1626, St George's, Unsworth, consecrated in 1730, St Paul's, Royton, consecrated in 1757, St Peter's, Oldham, 1768, St Margaret's, Hollinwood, 1769, All Saints Stand, 1826, and St James, Oldham in 1829. All Saints, Stand, was assigned a District from the parish of Prestwich, by Order in Council, 25 February 1829, (London Gazette, 10 July 1829).
The Parochial Chapel of Oldham (St Mary's), St Peter's, Oldham, St James's, Oldham, St Margaret's, Hollinwood, St Paul's, Royton, and Holy Trinity, Shaw, were assigned Districts, from the parish of Prestwich cum Oldham by Order in Council 4 March 1835, (London Gazette, 5 May 1835).
St Michael's, Tonge with Alkrington, consecrated 1839, was assigned a District by Order in Council, 27 April 1842 (London Gazette, 19 July 1842, from Prestwich parish.
St Paul's, Kersal, was assigned a District, partly from Prestwich by Order in Council, 8 June 1854 (London Gazette, 16 June 1854).
All Saints, Rhodes, was assigned a District, partly from Prestwich, by Order in Council, 28 July 1864 (London Gazette, 2 August 1864).
Holy Trinity, Prestolee, consecrated 1863, was assigned a District partly from Prestwich, by Order in Council, 3 March 1883 (London Gazette, 6 March 1883).
St Margaret's, Prestwich, licensed in 1851, and St George's, Unsworth, were assigned Districts by Order in Council, 19 May 1885 (London Gazette, 22 May 1885, entirely from Prestwich.
St Saviour's, Ringley, was assigned a District, partly from Prestwich by Order in Council, 20 October 1898, (London Gazette, 25 October 1898).
St Hilda's, Prestwich, was assigned a District, partly from Prestwich, by Order in Council, 3 December 1920, (London Gazette, 14 December 1920).
St Gabriel's, Prestwich, was assigned a District from St Mary's, by Order in Council, 26 July 1926, (London Gazette, 27 July 1926).
Part of the parish was added to St Andrew's, Blackley, by Order in Council, 6 February 1928, (London Gazette, 10 February 1928). A further part was added to St Paul's, Kersal Moor by Order in Council, 25 July 1947 (London Gazette, 29 July 1947.
Source:
The following records were deposited in the Library as Diocesan Record Office in December 1986 and February 1989 by Rev F Bibby.
Access restrictions:
UnrestrictedManchester Archives and Local Studies hold the following parish registers on microfilm: 1712-1843 (MFPR 108), 1843-1891 (MFPR 1561), 1891-1936 (MFPR 1562), marriages 1713-1813 (MFPR 109), 1813-1837 (MFPR 110), 1837-1972 (MFPR 1563-1575), burials 1711-1843 (MFPR 111), 1843-1885 (MFPR 1576), 1885-1921 (MFPR 1577)
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Record types:
Manchester Archives and Local Studies
Language:
English
Record number:
7184035
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