Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HOPE

HOPE, a chapelry in Manchester parish, Lancashire; near Eccles r. station. It was constituted in 1861; and its post town is Manchester. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £246. Patrons, the Bishop and Trustees. The church was built in 1862, at a cost of £6, 200; is in the decorated English style; measures 132 feet in length, one-third of which is chancel; and was left off with intended tower and spire unfinished.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Manchester AP/CP       Lancashire AncC
Place: Hope

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