ST. THOMAS', ARDWICK

M273/1/1-27 INCUMBENT

M273/1/1. Early Registers

M273/1/2. Baptism Registers

M273/1/3. Marriage Registers

M273/1/4. Burial Registers (see also M278/1/26, 27)

M273/1/5. Banns Books

M273/1/6. Certificate of Publication of Banns

M273/1/7. Marriage Licences

M273/1/8. Curate's Licence

M273/1/9. Licence to Solemnize Marriages

M273/1/10. Parish Boundaries

M273/1/11-13. Income

M273/1/11-12. Pew Rents

M273/1/13. Assessments Under Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures

M273/1/14. Tithe

M273/1/15. Churchyard

M273/1/16. Rectory

M273/1/17. Rector's Notebooks

M273/1/18. Notes on Incumbents

M273/1/19-20. Correspondence

M273/1/19. Acknowledgement of Message to Queen

M273/1/20. Microfilming of Parish Registers

M273/1/21-22 Miscellaneous

M273/1/23. Parish Magazines

M273/1/24. Confirmation Register

M273/1/25. Registers of Services

M273/1/26. Burial Services

M273/1/27. Book of Rememberance

M273/2/1 TRUSTEES

Minutes

M273/3/1-8 CHURCHWARDENS

M273/3/1-2 Finance

M273/3/1. Offertory Fund Accounts

M273/3/2. Bills

M273/3/3-6 Property

M273/3/3. Heating the Church

M273/3/4. Faculties

M273/3/5. Plans

M273/3/6. Church Plate

M273/3/7. Memorials

M273/3/8. Offertory Books

M273/4/1-7 CHURCHWARDENS, VESTRY AND PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL

M273/4/1. Churchwardens' Accounts and Vestry Minutes

M273/4/2. Parochial Church Council Minutes

M273/4/3. P.C.C. Correspondence

M273/4/4. Electoral Roll

M273/4/5. Miscellaneous

M273/5/1-3 SOCIETIES

M273/5/1. St. Thomas's Social Club

M273/5/2. Choir

M273/5/3. St. Thomas's Men's Fellowship

M273/6/1-6 SCHOOL

M273/6/1. Schedule of Deeds - transferred to Diocesan Registry

M273/6/2. Accounts

M273/6/3. Correspondence

M273/6/4. Miscellaneous

M273/6/5. Managers' Minutes

M273/6/6. Instrument of Management

M273/7/1-3 SUNDAY SCHOOL

M273/7/1. Admission Registers

M273/7/2. Baptism Roll

M273/7/3. Miscellaneous

<p>The Archives Department also has Archdeacon John Rushton's Visitation Papers, May 1846 (MS f 942.72 R121 vol. 41).</p>

The following records were deposited in Manchester Central Library as Diocesan Record Office by Rev. A. Cox in August 1977, by Rev. A. Ackerley in April 1982, and Rev. P. Clark in February 1987 and May 1989.

St. Thomas's was built in 1740 on a site given by Samuel Birch, Esq., for the inhabitants of Ardwick and Chorlton Row. It was consecrated on 10 November 1741, being the second new church (after St. Ann's) in the ancient parish of Manchester. It was enlarged in 1777 and 1831 and restored in 1882 and 1961.

Though marriages were solemnised from 1741 to 1753 a licence for marriages was only granted in 1837.

It was assigned the township of Ardwick as its District by Order in Council, 14 September 1838 (London Gazette 29 Mar. 1839), with a definition of the boundaries by Order in Council, 24 June 1856 (London Gazette, 1 July 1856). Part of the parish was assigned to St. Mark's, Gorton by Order in Council, 26 July 1866 (London Gazette, 27 July 1866). The boundaries with St. Saviour's, Chorlton upon Medlock were altered in 1955 (Order in Council, 1 December, London Gazette, 6 December 1955).

In 1978 the church was closed and the parish became part of the parish of St. Luke the Physician, Longsight (Order in Council 29 September, London Gazette 5 October 1978).