Longton St John in 1859

LONGTON (ST JOHN). The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £154; patrons, certain Trustees appointed under an act obtained in 1792; appropriator, the Rector of Stoke. The chapel, a neat brick edifice with a tower, built about 1760, by Mr. John Bourne, has been enlarged, and is now capable of accommodating 1200 persons, including 450 free sittings, for which the Incorporated Society granted 800.

By an act of parliament, relating to the rectory of Stoke, passed in 1827, provision is made for the further endowment of the chapel, on its separation from the parish and conversion into a district rectory; also for endowing a new church at Longton with not less than 10,000, nor more than 15,000, at the option of the patron of Stoke rectory, from the proceeds of tithes to be sold and invested in land.

Dr. Woodhouse, the late rector, likewise gave 1000 (with its accumulations until appropriated) towards providing a parsonage-house for the minister of the new church, besides allotting to national schools at Lane-End and Longton a portion of the yearly income arising from his munificent donation of 3000 to national schools in the parish of Stoke.

[Description(s) from The Topographical Dictionary of England (1859) by Samuel Lewis - Transcribed by Mike Harbach ©2020]