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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| Eccles (Parish) | Eccles (parish) | Continued | and was built after the model of St Cuthbert's Chapel of Ease, Edinburgh. Its length is 78 feet 6 inches and its breadth 34 feet. It was erected in 1774 & conveniently holds 1000 people. The Manse & Glebe formerly lay to the south of the mansion house of Eccles, but their situation was changed at the expense of Sir John Paterson. The present Manse is placed about a quarter of a mile to the rest of the church & was built in 1813. The Glebe, formerly, called Birgham Park, lies in the front of the manse, amounts to 21 acres & consists of good land. |
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