ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST, BACUP

L102/1/1-13 INCUMBENT

L102/1/1. Baptism and Burial Registers

L102/1/2. Baptism Registers

L102/1/3. Marriage Registers

L102/1/4. Burial Registers

L102/1/5. Banns Books

L102/1/6. Confirmation Registers - not deposited]

L102/1/7. Registers of Services

L102/1/8. Service Sheets - not deposited]

L102/1/9. Dilapidations

L102/1/10. Provisional Valuations under Finance Act.

L102/1/11. Parsonage

L102/1/12. History

L102/1/13. Magazine

L102/2/1-17 CHURCHWARDENS

L102/2/1. Papers Relating to Incumbents

L102/2/2. Accounts and Vestry Minutes

L102/2/3. Ledgers

L102/2/4. Collection Accounts

L102/2/5. Rough Account Book

L102/2/6. Guarantee Fund Accounts

L102/2/7. Annual Statements of Accounts

L102/2/8. Bills

L102/2/9. Copy Return of Church Rates

L102/2/10. Bequest

L102/2/11-12 Church Restoration

L102/2/13. Design for New Church

L102/2/14. Faculties

L102/2/15. Plans

L102/2/16. Photographs

L102/2/17. Inventory and Terrier

L102/3/1-2 PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL

L102/3/1. Minutes

L102/3/2. Agreement with Verger

L102/4 SOCIETIES

Young People's Fellowship

L102/5 CHARITIES

John Bolton Trust

L102/6/ 1-7 DAY AND SUNDAY SCHOOLS

L102/6/1. Bacup National School Trustees' Minutes

L102/6/2. Sunday School New Building Minutes - not deposited]

L102/6/3. Sunday School Trustees' Minutes

L102/6/4. Correspondence about Repairing School

L102/6/5. Grant of Part of School Land to Bacup Corporation

L102/6/6. Correspondence about Trust Deed

L102/6/7. Proposed Ministry of Education Schemes for Old National School

L102/7 MISCELLANEOUS

Bacup Board of Health Minutes

<p>The Archives Department also has Archdeacon John Rushton's Visitation Papers, mid 19thc., which include circulars appealing for funds for restoration, 1854 and 1865, and Rushton's queries as to statements made in the latter, 1865. (MSf92.72 R121 vol.75)</p>

The following records were deposited in Manchester Central Library as Diocesan Record Office in July 1982 by Rev. M. Holt.

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.

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 parish of Rochdale.

The new church of Christ Church, Bacup, was given part of St. John's District, by Bishop's Instrument, 19 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).