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Rivington Church is an active Church of England parish church in Rivington, Lancashire, England. The church has been designated a Grade II listed building. The church has no patron saint and is not named after a saint or martyr. It has been variously called St. Lawrence, St. George, Holy Trinity, and St. Catherine, but its correct title is Rivington Church. ==History== The earliest reference to a church in Rivington is in a deed of 1280 mentioning three acres of "terra ecclesiastical". A Saxon font, found in the locality, is housed in the Millennium Room at the church. When repairs were carried out to the church flooring, the foundations of an earlier building were discovered, possibly Saxon in origin.〔 In a settlement of the enclosure of manorial waste in 1536 the Priest here was given . Richard Pilkington of Rivington Hall, father of Bishop James Pilkington, appealed to Doctor Bird, the Bishop of Chester, to dedicate a chapel and chapelyard and he consecrated them in October 1541.〔 At the consecration, the village residents stated on oath they had worshipped at the site for generations. Queen Elizabeth I, at the petition of James Pilkington the first Protestant Bishop of Durham, granted letters patent for a free grammar school and license to provide a curate or minister and allow baptisms, marriages and burials for the inhabitants of the village and Anglezarke, Hemshaws and Foulds in 1566. Before this time the inhabitants were forced to travel to the surrounding parishes. The Reverend Samuel Newton was ejected from the church on "Bartholemew Sunday" in 1662 and most probably the staunchly Puritan congregation followed him and many became Presbyterian. This event led to the eventual founding of Rivington Unitarian Chapel. The church remains primarily as rebuilt in 1666 with alterations and restoration in the late 19th century.〔 The present north wall is the original wall of the building.〔 Rivington was created a parish out of the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Bolton le Moors in 1856, and at their own cost, and by a privilege that only eleven churches in the country possessed, the parishioners were able to select their own minister.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rivington Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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