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Morley wapentake. -Population, 13,656, vide Halifax; Church-room, 800; Net value, £125. -Patron, the Vicar of Halifax.This Chapel was built in 1529, the same year with Lightcliffe.
In the Parliamentary Survey, vol. xviii. page 279, it is stated : " No Minister. £5. 10s. maintenance. Two miles from Halifax, the way bad and mountainous. To be made a parish, and have Lightcliffe annexed."
" The yearly value is £10. 19s., and hath been so these many years." Signed, " Nathan Sharpe, Cur." -Notitia Parochialis, No. 397.
In 1707, valued at £13. 12s. 2d. per annum.
Augmented, in 1750, with £200, to meet benefaction of £200 from the Rev. Henry Whitworth ; in 1816, with £800, and in 1817, with £600, both by lot, from the Parliamentary grant.
Mr. Crabtree gives the present endowment of the Chapel.
A faculty was granted 13th July 1752, to enlarge the Chapel, and another on the 12th February 1816, to take down and rebuild the Chapel.
The present fabric is a neat structure, with a cemetery attached.
No glebe house.
The Registers are included in Halifax previous to 1813.
Charities:
Free School, founded under the will of Joseph Crowther, about 1711, for twelve poor children of North Owram. Income : rent of house, barn, &c., and 10½a. of land.J. Hall's charity, by will, dated in 1687. Five poor children taught to read and write, and twenty-five others to read only ; and to four poor people, £10 each annually. Income: rent of 49a. 2r. 28p. of land. -Vide 18th Report, page 581.
Post town: Halifax.
References:
Dodsworth's MS., page 117. Whitaker's Loidis et Elmete, page 391. Watson's Halifax, pages 233. 438. 653. Crabtree's Halifax, page 384. Abp. Sharp's MS., vol. i, page 187.