ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST, MILES PLATTING

M194/1/1-5 INCUMBENT

M194/1/1-2 Parish Registers

M194/1/1. Baptism Registers

M194/1/2. Marriage Registers

M194/1/3. Registers of Services

M194/1/4. Registers of Services and Official Parochial Register

M194/1/5. Banns Book

M194/2/1-3 CHURCHWARDENS AND PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL

M194/2/1. Copy Sequestration

M194/2/2. Parochial Church Council Minutes

M194/2/3. Vestry Minutes

M194/3 SUNDAY SCHOOL

Teacher's Minutes

M194/4/1-18 MISCELLANEOUS

M194/4/1. Letter Giving 2-6, 8-13 below

M194/4/2. Service Sheets

M194/4/3. Circular Letters From Incumbents

M194/4/4. Circular Letter From Churchwardens

M194/4/5. Balance Sheets

M194/4/6. Sunday School Annual Tea Party Programmes

M194/4/7. St. John's Monthly Record, 1877-1884

M194/4/8. Parish Magazines

M194/4/9. St. John's Monthly Record (new series)

M194/4/10-12 Papers Relating to the Heywood Family

M194/4/10. In Memoriam of Thos. Percival Heywood, bart.

M194/4/11. Letter from Monica Heywood

M194/4/12. Newspaper Cuttings

M194/4/13. Miscellaneous Newspaper Cuttings

M194/4/14. History

M194/4/15-18 Photographs

<p>The Library also has papers of Rev. S. F. Green relating to his incumbency of St. John's. (MS f922. 3G100)</p>

The following records were deposited in the Library as Diocesan Record Office in Aug. 1974 by Rev. T. F. de B. Baynes (M194/1/3,4, M194/2,3 M194/4/7, M194/4/14/1,3), in Jan. 1977 by Mr. J. Mather, former churchwarden (M194/4/1-6,8-13, 14/2) and in Apr. 1980 and Apr. 1982 by Canon S.P. Meadows (M194/1/1,2,5).

St. John's was built by Sir Benjamin Heywood and consecrated on 27th December 1855. It was assigned a District by Order in Council, 24 June 1856 (London Gazette, 1 July 1856).

In 1972 by Order in Council, 23 Oct. (London Gazette, 26 Oct.) it was united with St. George with St. Barnabas, Manchester, and St. Luke's, Miles Platting, to become St. Cuthbert's, Miles Platting.

St. John's became nationally famous in the late 1870s when the ritualistic practices of the rector Sidney Faithorn Green aroused strong feelings both of opposition and support. Following a presentation to the Bishop against Catholic practices Rev. Green was summoned to Lord Penzance's Court under the Public Worship Act of 1874, but refused to have anything to do with it. He was therefor condemned in his absence in June 1879, but it was not until March 1881 that he was arrested for contempt of court and imprisoned at Lancaster. Bailiffs possessed the rectory and his chattels were sold to pay court costs. He was forced to resign in late 1882.

During the controversy the church was broken into on 1 Apr. 1879 and altar ornaments and records damaged, an attempt being made to set fire to them. The Register of Services, 1876-1884 has several of its pages torn out.