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Ecclesiastical, court and land records in the Manchester Cathedral archives
| Order Number | 9781851172115 |
| Type | archive |
| Title | Ecclesiastical, court and land records in the Manchester Cathedral archives |
| E-resource | http://www.britishonlinearchives.co.uk/browse.php?cid=9781851172115 |
| Related names | Manchester Cathedral Hunwick, Christopher |
| Related titles | Manchester Cathedral archives |
| Description | Online resource (26,033 images) |
| Series | Pre-20th-century records on BOA (9781851172153) |
| Notes | Manchester Cathedral is one of only a handful of Anglican cathedrals that hold their own archives on site. Dating from 1361 to the present day, its archives cover the parish functions of both the Cathedral and its predecessor, the Collegiate Church, founded in 1421, as well as of the capitular workings of the church. The collection contains the largest series of parish registers in the country, because of the peculiar coincidence of a very large parish with a huge population increase during the 18th and 19th centuries. At times of peak demand, more than a hundred couples would be wed in a single day, married in batches of 20-30.
Yet not all would-be couples were married, as the Cathedral's apparently unique series of banns books starting from the Georgian period shows. These volumes provide unique insights for historians into the proportion of engagements that failed, what objections were raised, and by whom, as well as allowing detailed statistical analysis of residence and mobility in Victorian England. The Capitular Archives record the management of the Chapter Estates comprising considerable land holdings from the 17th-20th centuries in what became the world's first industrial city. Again it is possible to chart the effects of the Industrial Revolution on land use and property values in one of Britain's most important urban centres, as farms and fields were converted to roads, railways, homes and factories. Accessible through a full and detailed online catalogue of the entire archive (www.a2a.org.uk), the materials chosen for publication include highlights from across the major collections. Each document selected serves to illustrate the parochial duties of the Chaplains and Churchwardens, including charity distribution and the daily management of the church and its fabric, as well as the land and financial management of the Warden and Fellows of the Collegiate Church. Taken altogether they reveal how the established church tried to cope not just with spiritual, but also with social and economic change on an unprecedented and massive scale. Among the capitular and parish archives included in this online resource are: Manor court books, with one manor court call book, 1775-1914 Bursars books 1761-1857 Chapter registers, 1635-1870 Chaplains, minor canons and clerks' fees books, 1844-1898 Churchwardens' vouchers, 1814-1815 Annual accounts books Abstract book of leases, 1679-1869 Boundaries book of Newton, 1798 Complete runs of titles deeds for properties in Deansgate (1679-1831) and Kirkmanshulme (1675-1892) Estate plans for Deansgate, Kirkmanshulme and Newton Heath Corles Charity account book, 1848-1919 Collegiate Church Charity School account books, 1762-1893 Strangeways Charity vouchers, 1814-1815 Banns books and the banns objections register for the period 1733-1928, together with selected examples from the early 19th century from the series of baptism, burial and marriage registers. Published September 2009. British Online Archives (BOA) resources are also available on microfilm. |
| Subject(s) | HRBX : Christian institutions & organizations (UF spiritual & Church leaders; Ecclesiology & Church government; ministry & pastoral activity; Ecumenism; Christian social thought & activity, communities & monasticism) 1DBKEN : North West England (SN Cheshire; Cumbria; Lake District; Lancashire; Liverpool ; Manchester) HBXF : Economic history 3J : Modern period, c 1500 onwards |
| Collection price | £1,675 standard five-year licence |
