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' With Alderley (Nether and Over), , Bollin Fee, Chelford, Chorley, Styal, Dean Row, Hough, Fulshaw and Morley.

l~TIL"MSLOW is a town and very large parish, on the I vestry adjoining the north transept, built in I 878 at a cost f f and the high road from to fo £700 : the south transept, or Hawthorn chapel, originally Stockport and , with a station on the Manchester 1 attached to Hawthorn Hall, but recently acquired for the and section of the London and North Western rail- parish, was erected by the Leigh family, formerly way, which crosses the vale of the Bollin by a via.duct of resident at the Hall, and their arms are displayed in the II arches ; it is 176! miles from London, I9 from windows: at an earlier period it was known as Ryle's Crewe, 7 east from , 40 from , I4± north chapel : at the west end are memorial windows to George from , 12 south from Manchester, 6 south-west Bower, of London and Hostol, Kent, d. rs June, 1865; and from Stockport, I2 by rnil and 7 by road north-west from to Joshua Bower, surgeon, d. 7 Sept. I875, at the west end of , and 7 by road south-east from Altrincham, in the north aisle; and in the south aisle another, placed by the Knutsford division of the county of , Macclesfield Edmund Ash ton esq. of Hatfield, in memory of his wife, d. hundred, Prestbury petty sessional division, Bucklow union 17 Feb. r884; the church also contains a large number of and .Altrincham county court district,and in the rural deanery monuments and tablets to the Booth, Brownlow, Daven­ of Stockport, archdeaconry of Macclesfield and diocese of port, Finney, Newton, Hoylance and Trafiord families : the Chester. The town is divided into four wards, viz. : Dean mteriur of the church was partially restored and enlarged in How, Hough, Fulshaw, and l\Iorley, and is governed by an I862-3, at a cost of £4,ooo, and re-opened in September of Urban district council formed under the provisions of the the latter year; and about I878, in addition to the re·

"Local Government Act, 1894" (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73); it is i building of the tower and vestry mentioned above, a new

lighted with .electricity fror~ works belonging to the .Alder~ey r s~uth. porch was erected at a cost ~f [.3oo, under the Edge and Electnc Supply Co. and supplied w1th d1rectwn of Mr. J. S. Cl-owther, architect, who carefully water by the Stockport District ·waterworks Co. The town- reproduced it from the measurements of an earlier structure. ship of Wilmslow was constituted under Local Government In I898 further restoration was carried out at a total cost of Hoard order 1894, and comprises the old local board area, .£ 3,ooo, under the direction of Mr. G. :F. Bodley R.A., including Pownall Fee township and parts of Bollin Fee and F. s.A. when the chancel and side screens were reconstructed Fulsha w townships. The church of St. Bartholomew is an and tb.e chancel raised by the addition of a clerestory, and new ancient edifice of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting roofed ; the Jesus chapel was also purchased and refitted, and of chancel with Jesus chapel on the north and the Bot he the screen-work repaired and new choir stalls were provided. chapel on the south, and vestry, transepts, clerestoried nave The church now affords soo sittings : the churchyard of eight bays, airsles, south porch, and an embattled western was enlarged at the time of the restoration, in I 863. A tower with pinnacles containing a clock and 6 bells: the lych gate was erected in I9o4 at a cost of £250. The belfry stage was entirely rebuilt in I887, under the direction register dates from the yoor 1558. The living is a rectory, of Mr. J. S. Crowther, architect, of Manchester, at a cost of net yearly value £742, chiefly derived from tithe rent­ about£700, defrayed by the late R. B. M. Lingard-::\ionk esq. charge, with So acres of glebe and residence, in the of Fulsha w Hall : the bells were at the same time re hung on gift of Sir John C. Holder bart. three turns, and the iron frames and the clock renovated at a cost of £25o, Bishop, and held since 1903 by the RB'V. John St. raised by subscription: the stained east window was pre- Clair MayneM.A. of Brasenose College, Oxford, and surrogate. sented in I858 by the Rev. William Brownlow M.A. rector The .Memorial Mission Church, Nursery lane, erected in r829-72, as a memorial to his daughter: the chance! has I876, at the sole expense of George Fox esq. Elmhurst Hall, an oak roof, the carved bosses of which bear the initials of near Lichfield, at a cost of /,2,2oo, and dedicated January Henry Trafford, rector I5r6-37; on the floor is an inscribed I7, I8yr, is an edifice of brick in the Gothic style, consisting slab to Peter Ledsham, rector, ob. 22 July, 1678, and there of chancel, nave, transepts, vestry and organ chamber; is a tablet to the Rev. Croxton .Tohnson, rector, d. 30 Jan. divine service is held on Sunday morning and evening by 1814: below the chancel is a crypt, with sedilia, probably the clergy of Wilrnslow. The Catholic t:hurch, dedicated part of an earlier church: in the Chapel of the Holy Name, to St. Teresa, in Alma lane, erected in I875, will seat I2D formerly known as the" Jesus chapel," on the north side of persons. The Wesleyan chapel, Altrincham road, erected the chancel, are two canopied tombs with recumbent eiligies, in 1884 at a cost of £3,000, is an edifice of stone in the one of a lawyer and the other of a female, with her head Gothic style, and consists of chancel, nave and aisles, with a resting on a garb ; on the floor is a fiat stone, with a cross gallery; in the chancel are choir stalls, and behind an organ and the letters I. H. S. rudely carved on it, said to be in chamber; the organ was built in I885 ; there are several memory of Sir Henry Knight, first chauntry priest of this memorial windows, and sittings for 400 persons ; annexed chapel ; on an altar-tomb in the chancel is a tonsured effigy is a Sunday school, built in I89o at a cost of [.1,9rXJ, for of an ecclesiastic,and a marginal inscription to Henry Trefort 300 scholars, with six separate class rooms ; the old (Trafford) s.T.P. rectorhereandchancellorofYorkminster, chapel, erected in 1798, is now closed. The United olt. 1 Aug. 1537 : in the chancel are placed the brasses, with Methodist chapel in Hawthorn street, erected in 1870, is of effigies, of Sir Robert del Bothe, of Dunham Massey and brick, and will seat SrXJ persons ; attached is a Sunday Bollyn, ob. I6 Sept. 1459, and Dulcie or Donee (V enables), his school, built in r88r, and holding 300 children. The wife, ob. 22 Sept. 1453 : the tigure of .the knight is in plate Congregational chapel in Alderley road, erected in I846-7, armour, with his feet resting on a greyhound, and his hand is of freestone of Gothic style, and was greatly enlarged in and his wife's conjoined : in this chapel is a memorial window I 86~. The meeting house of the Society of Friends is in to Gertrude Dorothy Rivaz, d. 21 Dec. 1861, and others given Altrincham road. The charities for distribution in bread by Mrs. Crompton, of Wilmslow : in the tower stands a very and money amount to £20 yearly ; Lindow workhouse singular oak chest, hewn out of a solid block, and strongly charity of £348 16s.ud. yearly, arising from cottages and bound with iron; it is 4 feet 2~ inches long, 2 feet ro inches 99A. 30P. of land, now being used for building purposes, wide, and about 2 feet deep, and the sides and ends are of is devoted to the alleviation of poor's rate, and there is extraordinary thickness : on the south side of the chancel also a llUID of £4 16s. for education. Thomas Hall's is the Bolyn or Booth chapel, in which there is a memo- charity, net value £23 gs. is distributed in money and rial window to John C!arke Prescott, d. I6 May, r863, clothing on St. Thomas' day; Leigh and Eccles charities, erected in 1866 by his son, John Barrow Prescott: the amounting to £.n 7s._ are distributed annually by the