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I deanery of , archdeaconry of !Maccle;;field and brick buildinq holding 300 person~, is at present (1896) diocese of . The town is on the Trent' and• :Mersey used' as an Infant School in connection with the National Canal and the small river Wheelock, whic-h supplies School. water-power to the largest of the silk mills. The Literary and Scientific Institution, High town, The "Local Government .Act, 1858," was adopted. by erected in 1857 at a cost of £2,700, is a structure of bri'* the township April 4, 1862, but under the provisions of ornamented with stone in the Perpendicular style, from the "Local Government. .Act, 1894" (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73) plans by the late .Sir G. Gilbert Scott R.A. and contains on the town is governed by a District Council of 15 mem­ the ground floor a reading room and library of 1,500 bers; it is lighted with gas by a company, from) works volumes, and on the first floor a large room in which the in Union street erected in 1847, and well supplied! with pet.ty sessions, county court and1 meetings of the High. pure water, also. from works the property of the Urban way BoardJ are held. District! Council, constructed in 1891 by the late Local The County Police Station, Bold street, erected 1857 at Board·, at a cost of £7,ooo: the water gravitat.e•s fram a cost of £Boo, is an edifice• of brick and stone, comprising springs at Taxmere, a dlistrict about I~ miles from1 the offices, cells and a residence for the chief officer. works, and after being purified &c. is forced into a water The Fire Station, on Scotch Commons, erected in 1873, tower, 68 feet high, wit.h reservoirs, holding 65,ooo gal­ is' a plain structure of red brick, and consists of engine lons, and from thence. descends into the mains which house only. · supply the town. Some of the streets in the more ancient The· G Company, sth Battalion ·Cheshire Regiment, part are narrow, but since the increase of manufactures about 94 rank and file ; head quarters at Congleton. Th& the. thoroughfares hav.e been considerably improved; the rifle butts are at .', about 1! miles from . town is remarkably clean and the houses well built·, The armoury is on Scotch commons. The parish ohurch of St. Mary, standing on an emi­ The Savings Bank, at the west end of High street, a nence, is an embattled' edifice of stone in the Perpen­ building in the Elizabethan style, was ere'Cted in l85+ dicular styl•e', consisting of chancel, with north and! south from fund•s accumulated in the hands of the actuary of chapels, clerestoried nave, aisles, south porch, and1 an the bank. open arched tower at the west end with pinnacles, con­ r.l"he chief trade is in salt, chemicals andt fustian !;Ut­ taining 8 bells .and a. clock with chimes and\ illuminated ting. Boots and shoes are also manufactured, and there dials on the north and south, present.e·ru in I8qo by Henry are brine springs, es of outside, andJ extended at the east end 40 feet, and the its malt liquor, and worsted yarn and stuffs for country tower rebuilt from the foundation in the years• 1847-8-g, wear were manufactured in large quantities by its in­ at a cost of £6,ooo: the font is of C'aen stone, andJ all the habitants. Sir John Ratcliff, of Ordsall, in Lancashire, fit.tings of oak: the east wind10w andl sevent•een others are in 1578 obtained the grant of a market, to be held on stained': there is a monument to the Rev. John Armit­ Thursday, and two fairs to be held on the Tuesday and stead M.l.A. vicaT 1828-65, with a three-quarter length "Yednesd'ay in Easter week, and on Thursdny and Friday figure habited! in a surplice: the monument is of white before. the nativity of Our Lad·y: the market is still held marble, and: was executed in 1876 by H. F. Watt·~' R.A. on Thursday, and fairs· are held on Easter Tuesday, the and George Nelson, sculptors; it was the gift of the late first Thursday after the nth of September and the 28th Charles Hilditch Rickards esq. of Manchester: ther·e' are of December; the latter is a great cattle an