ST. JAMES, ASHWORTH

L101/1/1-12 INCUMBENT

L101/1/1. Baptism Registers, 1813-1958

L101/1/2. Marriage Register, 1824-1835

L101/1/3. Burial Registers, 1813-1913

L101/1/4. Banns Books - not deposited]

L101/1/5. Confirmation Registers - not deposited]

L101/1/6. Registers of Services, 1917-1950

L101/1/7. Service Sheet, 1884

L101/1/8. Grave Register, 1853-1942

L101/1/9. Glebe, 1839

L101/1/10. Income, 1877-1915

L101/1/11. Bishop's Visitation, 1906

L101/1/12. History, c 1953

L101/2/1-4 CHURCHWARDENS

L101/2/1. Accounts, 1864-1940, and Vestry Minutes, 1864-1870

L101/2/2. Pew Rents, 1860-1873

L101/2/3. Faculty, 1935

L101/2/4. Memorial Litany Desk, 1927

L101/3/1-2 PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL

L101/3/1. P.C.C. Minutes, 1921-1945

L101/3/2. Annual Church Meetings Minutes, 1920-1926

L101/4 SOCIETIES

Church of England Men's Society Minutes, 1920-1921

L101/5 SUNDAY SCHOOL

Attendance Register, 1909-1910

L101/6 DAY SCHOOL

Attendance Register, 1846-1858

<span class="wrapper"><p>The earliest registers, baptisms, 1741-1812, marriages, 1778-1810 and burials, 1776-1812, were destroyed by fire c 1868. They were in existence at the time of Archdeacon John Rushton's Visitation returns for the church and school, September 1846 (MS f 942.72 R121 vol. 51).</p> <p>References to Ashworth are included in Middleton churchwardens' accounts, 1647-1679 (L56/2/1/1).</p></span>

The following records were transferred to the Library as Diocesan Record Office, from the Lancashire Record Office, in July 1982.

Ashworth was an ancient chapelry in the parish of Middleton. The Church was built during the reign of Henry VII, rebuilt in 1789 and enlarged in 1837.

It was assigned the township of Ashworth, from the parish of Middleton, by Order in Council, 17 May 1867, (London Gazette. 21 May 1867).

In 1949 an Order in Council, 28 January, (London Gazette, 1 February 1949), united the benefices of St. Paul, Norden and St. James, Ashworth, but the parishes were to remain distinct.