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Wakefield |
Agbrigg wapentake, L.D. -Population, 5,047 *1, vide Wakefield; Chapel-room, 1,500 *2; Net value, £85.
Patron, the Rev. Samuel Sharp, now Vicar of Wakefield, and after his incumbency, the Lord Chancellor.Built under the Parliamentary grant. Architecture Gothic, with turrets. First stone laid 13th September 1821. Cost, £12,191. 0s. 8d. A District has been assigned under 59th Geo. III. cap. 134, sec. 16. -Vide 4th Report, page 3, and 11th Report, page 6.
Augmented in 1826 with £2,200 from the Parliamentary grant, by lot.
No return as to registers.
No glebe house.
Charities:
Almshouses for two widows, purchased with £50 given by Anne Harrison, widow.Alice Newstead's charity, by will, in 1771. Interest of £50 (now taken by the parish) to be distributed among poor persons. -Vide 17th Report, page 710.
Post town: Wakefield.
Notes:
*1 Stanley with Wrenthorpe.*2 Of which 724 are free sittings.