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- Tyldesley became a district parish in August 1829.
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Following the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Tyldesley was part of the manor of Warrington, until the Norman Conquest of England, when the settlement constituted a township called Tyldesley-with-Shakerley in the ancient parish of Leigh.
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Tyldesley became a district parish in August 1829. On the last day of 1833 the curate, the Reverend Jacob Robson, writing in the parish registers, signalled the change in the spelling of the township name from Tildesley to Tyldesley .
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Tyldesley like this: TYLDESLEY, a town, and a township-chapelry, in Leigh parish, Lancashire.
On the eastern side of the parish church, across School Street is the site of the original parish school. The building as a school had a 170 year life opening in 1829, celebrating 150 years in 1979 and finally moving to a new site in 1999.
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Until 1789, when the Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion built Top Chapel, there was no place of worship in the growing township. Tyldesley was part of the ancient ecclesiastical parishAncient or ancient ecclesiastical parishes encompassed groups of villages and hamlets and their adjacent lands, over which a clergyman had jurisdiction. of Leigh that...
Peel Quarry in Little Hulton supplied the sandstone for the church which is 112 feet (34 m) long and 60 feet (18 m) wide. It was built in the Early English Gothic style with a seven-bay nave and clerestory which, according to Pevsner have, “unconvincing Geometric aisle windows and squashed Y-tracery on the clerestory”.The chancel, added in 1886, ha...
During its first 120 years, St George’s had four incumbents. Jacob Robson came to the church as curate in 1825, becoming vicar in 1842, although Tyldesley was made a parish in 1829. He died in 1851. His successor was George Richards who was vicar from 1851 to 1884, during which time 14 of the 25 victims of the Yew Tree Colliery firedamp explosion i...
In 1827, the township of Tyldesley was erected into a district parish, as regards ecclesiastical affairs. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with £600 private benefaction, and £1600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Lord Lilford.
The church was built in 1825, and was thoroughly restored and a new chancel erected in 1886. It is in the Early Pointed style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, transept, W porch, and western tower with lofty spire, and contains several memorial windows.
