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The Cost of Establishment: Some Reflections on Church Building in Manchester
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2016
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The problem of the balance between the Establishment and Dissent in the nineteenth century has not attracted much attention among historians, crucial as it was to much of church life and politics too. The mushroom growth of Dissent between 1790 and 1850 was plainly related to the social cataclysms of that period, though the precise nature of the relation is still far from clear; and by the time of the census of 1851 Dissent had attained a rough numerical parity with the Establishment. After 1850 the Church establishment was never (in spite of some gloomy prognostications) in real danger. Indeed, in two important respects the situation changed in her favour.
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Page 279 of note 1 Parish of Manchester Division Act, 13 & 14 Vict., c. 41.
Page 279 of note 2 The capitular funds increased much more slowly at first than those of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners’ Common Fund, from the benefits of which the Manchester Parish was excluded between 1850 and 1863. No grant whatever was received from the capitular funds till I860. Return on Manchester Parish. Parliamentary papers, H. C, 1864, XLIV.
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