Barton, Hope, Monton, , , and "Winton

CCLES is a. municipal borough and an anCient parish, Eccle!'!: a parsonage was erected in 1883, at a cost of E with a. station on the Liverpool and section £1,800, not including site: connected with this church of the London and North Western railwaY,4 miles west are schools at Monton, erected in 1881 and enlarged in from Manchester, 27 east from Liverpool, 14 east-by-north 1895. During the year 189~ schools and an institute were from and 192 from London, giving name to the ereeted in Barton lane and Oxford street, at a cost of Eccles division of the county of Lancaster, and is in the £6,964, exclusive of site. There is 1\ Catholic school chapel, , Barton-upon-Irwell union, Salford county dedicated to St. Mary, with 300 sittings. Trinity church, court district, rural deanery of Eccles, archdeaconry and Reformed Church of , at the junction of Albert road diocese of Manchester. The borough, incorporated by Royal and Monton road, opened 7th April, 1894, at a total cost of charter. May 9, 1892, consists of the urban sanitary district £ 2,020, is an edifice of stone in the Perpendicular style, of Harton-upon-Irwell, Eccles, Winton and Monton, and is consisting of chancel, nave, vestry, organ chamber and an divide1 into six wards, the corporation consisting of a incomplete tower: the church will seat 450 persons. The mayor, six aldermen and eighteen councillors. A sep:uate Wesleyan Methodist chapel, with a Sunday school attached, Commission of the Peace was granted in August, 1894. holding 500 children, wa~ erected at a cost of £16,000, and Eccles is the name given to one of the Parliamentary there are United Methodist, Primitive Methodist, divisiolli! of South East , created under the Baptist, United Welsh Methodist, and Friends' chapels, ,provisiolli! of the Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885. The a Congregational chapel, with tower and spire, and attached 'borough is lighted with gas by the Salford Corporation, Sunday schools, enlarged in 1873 and again in 1885, and and in part by electricity from works erected by the Cor- a Presbyterian chapel erected in 1906 at a cost of £1,400. poration of Eccles in Cawdor street, Patricroft, in 1898, at The Town Hall, in Church street, erected in 1881 at a cost ,3 cost of £2,000, and since extended: Iwater is supplied of about £7,5°0, from the designs of Mr. John Lowe, bf the Corporation of Manchester. The township of architect, of Manchester, is an edifice of red brick, with· .Eccles is now co-terminous for Poor Law purposes with stone dressings, in the Renaissance style, and has a the borough. The church of St. Mary, originally erected turret containing a clock with chimes, presented by the llbout 11 11, rebuilt at various times and extensively repaired late Robert Hall esq. of Eccles; besides the usual apart­ in 1847, and again in 1907, is an edifice of stone, Perpendicu. ments devoted to municipal purposes there is a large hall lar in style, consisting of chancel, nave, three chapels, holding 800 persons, suites of offices, a Council Chamber, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower, with Committee rooms, Mayor's parlour, and Court House; the pinnacles, containing 8 bells, dated 1709 ; the chapel of St. additional buildings were erected at a cost, including fur­ Catherine was formerly a chantry, founded by Thomas nishing, of about £7,000, from the design!! of Mr. Cornelius 'Bathe, of Barton, in 1368: the Jesus, or de Trafford chapel, Bagot, architect, of Manchester. The common seal is simply on the north side, was founded by William Bothe in 1460, an embossing stamp displaying the borough arms within a and the third, or Bridgewater chapel, was origin'l.lly a quatrefoil,between two Lancastrian roses, and surrounded by chantry dedicated to the Holy Trinity :.in the chancel is an a legend. The mayorwears a gown of scarlet faced with black altar tomb with recumbent effigies of Richard Brereton, of velvet and trimmed with sables. The Public Baths in Milton 'Horsley. his wife and child, and there are monuments to the street, Patricroft, were erected in 1882, at a cost of £2,850, Dauntseys, of Agecroft Hall, dating from 1636 to 18°5, and and comprise large and small swimming baths and twelve a. memorial to the Rev. William Marsden B.D. vicar here slipper baths. The Barton-on-Irwell Liberal Club, in Wel- 4'rom 1837, d. 1861: there are brasses to Sir James Pitcairn ling-ton road, is a structure of red brick, erected in 1879 at a .kt, M.D. deputy inspector of Military Hospitals in Ireland, cost of £4,000. The Eccles Liberal Clubis in the Wellington 1859; Harriet (Dalbiac), his wife, 1832, and William road. The Eccles Central Conservative Club is in the Pitcairn, 1862, and there are nine stained windows: the Monton road. The Barton-on-Irwell Conservative Club, -whole of the eastern part of the church was rebuilt in 1863 in the Monton road, an edifice of red brick in the at a cost of over £7,000, and an organ chamber was added Elizabethan style, with bowling green attached, was ,in 1869 and an additional organ in 1890: there are 1,400 erected in 1881, at a cost of £5,000. The Eccles sittings, 550 being free. The register, in good condition, Junior Conservative Club is in Liverpool road. The dates from 1564- The living is a vicarage, net yearly value Crown theatre. Church street, erected in 1898-9. at a £71'1, with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, cOStof£15,000, from designs by Messrs. Campbell&1; Horsley, and held since 1898 by the Rev. Frederic Daustini Cremer architects, of Eccles, is a spacious and entirely fireproof IIl.A. of Wadham College, Oxford, and surrogate. The ecclesi- structure, seating 2,500 persons. The Oddfellows' Hall, in lutical parish of St. Andrew, including Monton, was formed Mather road, erected at a cost of £3,5°0. was opened in 25th May, 1880: the church, in the Monton road, erected March, 19°2, and contains committee, reading and billiard oy subscription, at a cost of £12,400, from designs rooms: attached is a bowling green. There are now (1910) by Mr. Herbert J. Tijou, architect, of Manchester, and about 1,200 members. Eccles wakes, formerly held in the consecrated April 16th, 1879, is a building of stone in market place, were abolished in 1881, but are now held on the Early English style, and consists of apsidal chancel, private ground, commencing on the first Sunday after the nave, aisles, north and south porches and vestry and a 25th of Angust and lasting for several days. In 1864 several tower lIS feet high: the pulpit of Caen stone and marble thousands of silver pennies, of the reigns of Henry Ill. and was given by the congregation: a memorial window was John and William I. of Scotland, were found alongside the erected in 1886 to the Rt. Rev. James Fraser D.D. Bishop boundary wall on the west side of Monk's Hall, which is sup­ of Manchester (1870-86), at a cost of £222: the organ was posed to have been a grange or farm residence of the monks erected in 1883 at a cost of £75°: an oak reredos was of Whalley Abbey,who were the lords of a great part ofEcdes, erected in 1897, and in 1902 oak choir stalls, organ loft and Monton and Swinton, and collected rents and tithes from screen were provided. A scheme of mural paintings, de- their tenants. In the old Vicarage house the Rt. Hon, signed by Mr. A. O. Hemming, has been partially carried William Huskisson :M. P. died from injuries received on 15th out, and several stained windows have been added: the September, 1830, at the opening of the Manchester and Liver­ church has sittings for 800, all of which are free. The pool railway, the oldest but one in the kingdom. Cotton register dates from the year 1879. The living is a. vicarage, spinning, silk throwing and the manufacture of fustians and Dot yBarly value £390, with residence, in the gift of five trus- ginghams is carried on here and in the neighbouring ¥illagas. tees, a.nd held since 1896 by the Rev. Arthur Charles Thomp- The pastry cakes made here and known as "Eccles Cakes" son M.A.of St. John's College, Cambridge, anl rural dean of are very similar in their composition to the famou'l •• B~\n-