ST. PAUL, RAMSBOTTOM

L58/1/1-11 INCUMBENT

L58/1/1. Baptism Registers, 1844-1955

L58/1/2. Marriage Registers, 1850-1955

L58/1/3. Burial Register, 1851-1928

L58/1/4. Banns Books, 1854-1935, 1942-1976

L58/1/5. Registers of Services, 1902-1975

L58/1/(6. Confirmation Register - not deposited)

L58/1/7. Union of St. Paul's with St. John's, Shuttleworth, 1979-1981

L58/1/(8. Patronage - not deposited)

L58/1/9. Churchyard, 1938

L58/1/10. Vicarage, 1936

L58/1/11. Dilapidations Assessment,. 1971

L58/2/1-5 CHURCHWARDENS

L58/2/1. Accounts, 1961-1969

L58/2/2. Bequests, 1963-1976

L58/2/3. Faculties, 1953-1979

L58/2/4. Subscribers to Reredos, 1909

L58/2/5. Repairs, 1973

L58/2/6. Offestory Receipts, 1930-1935, 1959-1961

L58/3/1 PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL

L58/3/1. Minutes, 1957-70

L58/4 CHARITIES

Jane Brennand, 1884

L58/5/1 SCHOOLS

L58/5/1. Letters Relating to Trust Deeds, 1870-1904

<p>The Archives Department also has Archdeacon John Rushton's Visitation Papers (MS f 942.72 R121 vol. 16), which include an engraving, ground plans, no date, notice of forthcoming consecration service, 23 October 1850, subscriptions for the church and parsonage, 1850-1852, and accounts for enlargement, 1866.</p>

The records were deposited in the Library as Discesan Record Office in April and June 1979 by Rev. R. C. Barsley and in September 1989 by Rev. D. Vale.

L58/addn1. ST. PAUL, RAMSBOTTOM

L58/2/1 and L58/2/6/1-2 were deposited in June 1993 per the Bury Archives Service.

St. Paul's was assigned a District from Holcombe by Order in Council, 23 May 1844 (London Gazette, 3 June 1844).

The church was consecrated on 23 October 1850.

Part of the parish was assigned to St. Andrew's, Ramsbottom, by Order in Council, 12 February 1876 (London Gazette, 15 February 1876).

In 1981 St. Paul's was united with St. John's, Shuttleworth, as St. John and St. Paul, Ramsbottom, both churches being retained for worship, by Order in Council, 13 April (London Gazette, 16 April 1981).