Data from the 'Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum' from the year 1842.

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

Data from the 'Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum' from the year 1842.

The place: CROSTONE IN STANSFIELD.     Church dedication: CHAPEL.

Morley wapentake. Heptonstall division. -Population, 10,752, vide Halifax; Chapel-room, 350 *2; Net value, £130.

Patron, the Vicar of Halifax.

Valued, in 1707, at £23. 2s. 6d. In the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xviii. page 274, it is stated : " No maintenance. To be united to, and Heptonstall to be the parish Church."

Augmented, in 1810, with £200, and in 1813, with £1,400 from the Parliamentary grant, both by lot; in 1816, with £300, and £300 from the same grant, to meet benefactions of £200 and £200 from the inhabitants ; in 1820, with £800, by lot ; and, in 1824, with £300 from the same grant, to meet benefaction of £200 from the Rev. J. Fennell, the incumbent.

£20 per annum (says Archbishop Sharp) are paid by the freeholders and owners of lands. Mr. Waterhouse also left 40s. per annum for preaching an anniversary sermon.

21st June 1717, a faculty was granted to rebuild the Chapel.

A new Chapel was consecrated on the 29th September 1835, and also a burial-ground.

The glebe house is fit for residence.

The Register Books for baptisms and burials commence in 1678.

Charities:
John Greenwood's gift, by will, dated 13th December 1705. 20s. per annum to the poor of Stansfield, in canvas cloth.

Henry Pollard's gift, by will, dated in 1608. Rent-charge of 9s. to the minister of Crostone, and £1. 18s. to the poor of Stansfield. -Vide 18th Report, page 589.

Post town: Rochdale, Lancashire.

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References:
History of Halifax, page 305. Watson's Halifax, page 451. Abp. Sharp's MS. vol. i. page 189. Whitaker's Loidis et Elmete, pages 274. 403.

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Notes:
*1 This town takes its name from an ancient stone cross, the top of which is now destroyed. -Watson's Halifax.

*2 Estimated at 500 in 1818. The Society have voted £700 for 751 additional sittings, of which 616 are to be free.