Newchurch in Rossendale, Lancashire Family History Guide

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Newchurch in Rossendale is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Lancashire, created from a chapelry in Whalley Ancient Parish.

Other places in the parish include: Wolfendenen-in-Newchurch, Tunstead, Elfenden, Stackstead, Deadwin, and Clough.

Alternative names: Whalley Newchurch in Rossendale, St Nicholas with St John
New Church in Rossendale

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

Newchurch in Rossendale

  • Parish registers: 1723
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1606

Tunstead

  • Parish registers: 1840
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Baptist, Jewish, Particular Baptist, Presbyterian, Presbyterian Unitarian, Primitive Methodist, Society of Friends/Quaker, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Association.

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

NEWCHURCH-IN-ROSSENDALE, a village and a chapelry in Whalley parish, Lancashire.

The village stands on an eminence, adjacent to the Manchester, Bury, and Bacup railway, 2½ miles WSW of Bacup; and has a station on the railway and a post-office under Manchester, both of the name of Newchurch, and a fair on the last Monday of June.

The chapelry contains also the villages of Clough-Fold, Tunstead, Waterfoot, Booth-Fold, and Whitwell-Vale. Acres, 9,650. Rated property, £33,374. Pop., 24,413. The property is much subdivided.

The manor belongs to the Duke of Buccleuch. Thistle-Mount, Springfield, Ashlands, Clough-fold, Edgeside, and Leabank, are chief residences.

Coal, freestone, and slate abound; stone is quarried; and the cotton and woollen manufactures are largely carried on.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £500. Patron, the Vicar of Whalley. The church was rebuilt in 1826, on the site of a previous church of 1512; is in the Tudor style; consists of nave and aisles, with an embattled tower; has very old pews, and a carved Caen stone pulpit of 1854; and contains 1,200 sittings. The rectory house was built in 1852; and is a handsome edifice, in the Tudor style.

Two other churches are in Tunstead and Waterfoot; chapels for Baptists, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, and Unitarians, national schools, and an endowed grammar-school, are in Newchurch; a Baptist chapel is in Clough-Fold; and a mechanics’ institution is in Whitwell-Vale

The Wesleyan chapel was built in 1804, and contains nearly 500 sittings. The Unitarian chapel was rebuilt in 1865, at a cost of £2,200; and is in the pointed style.

The grammar-school was built and endowed in 1711, by Mr. John Kershaw. The Baptist chapel in Clough-Fold dates from 1700; had Dr. Isaac Watts, at one time, as its minister; and was enlarged in 1838, and re-enlarged in 1853

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Parish Records

FamilySearch

England, Lancashire, Newchurch-in-Rossendale – Cemeteries ( 2 )
The church of St. Nicholas, Newchurch in Rossendale, monumental and memorial inscriptions
Author: Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society. Rossendale Branch; Church of England. Chapelry of Newchurch-in-Rossendale (Lancashire)

Lancashire monumental inscriptions and grave owners, Newchurch in Rossendale, the Methodist Church
Author: Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society. Rossendale Branch; Barnfield, Tricia Kay; Methodist Church (Newchurch in Rossendale, Lancashire)

England, Lancashire, Newchurch-in-Rossendale – Church history ( 1 )
Short history of Newchurch in Rosendale
Author: Rathboen, D.

England, Lancashire, Newchurch-in-Rossendale – Church records ( 5 )
Bishop’s transcripts of the chapelry of Newchurch-in-Rossendale, 1606-1854.
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Newchurch-in-Rossendale (Lancashire); Church of England. St. John’s Church (Bacop, Lancashire); Church of England. Trinity Church (Tunstead, Lancashire); Church of England. Immanuel’s Church (Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire)

England, Lancashire, Newchurch in Rossendale, St. Nicholas Church, parish registers
Author: Manchester Archives Central Library

Newchurch-in-Rossendale : the registers of St. Nicholas
Author: Lancashire Parish Register Society

Parish registers for Newchurch-in-Rossendale, 1853-1952
Author: Church of England. Chapelry of Newchurch-in-Rossendale (Lancashire)

The registers of the parish church of Newchurch-in-Rossendale, 1606-1723
Author: Sparke, Archibald; Church of England. Chapelry of Newchurch-in-Rossendale (Lancashire)

England, Lancashire, Newchurch-in-Rossendale – Church records – Indexes ( 4 )
Computer printout of Newchurch in Rossendale. Lancs., Eng

Newchurch-in-Rossendale [marriage index]
Author: Lancashire Family History & Heraldry Society; Matthews, Paula

Parish register printouts of Newchurch in Rossendale, Bethlehem Unitarian, Lancashire, England ; christenings, 1807-1838
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

Parish register printouts of Newchurch in Rossendale, Mill End Wesleyen, Lancashire, England ; christenings, 1796-1837
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Genealogical Department

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Administration

  • County: Lancashire
  • Civil Registration District: Haslingden
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Chester (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Manchester
  • Rural Deanery: Whalley
  • Poor Law Union: Clitheroe
  • Hundred: Blackburn
  • Province: York