new “church”—­that now in Fishergate; and on the 10th of August, 1859, the old building was bought by certain gentlemen connected with the Church of England.  A young man, named William Dent Thompson, strong in constitution, greatly enamoured of Reformation principles, keenly polemical, and brought up under the aegis of the Rev. Geo. Alker, was appointed superintendent of the place.  He stayed awhile, then went away, and was succeeded by the Rev. Geo. Donaldson, who in turn left for Blackburn, and was followed by the Rev. Geo. Beardsell, the present incumbent of All Saints’ in this town.  Mr. Beardsell did an excellent business in the district—­worked it up well and most praiseworthily; but he, in time, left.

For seven months after this, there was no regular minister at the place; still it didn’t go down; several energetic, zealous laymen looked after it and the schools established in connection with it, and, considering their calibre, they did a good work.  But they couldn’t keep up a full and continuous fire; a properly stationed minister was needed; and Mr. Thompson, who had in the meantime entered holy orders, was summoned from Blackenall, in Staffordshire, to take charge of the church and district.  In 1863 he came; under his ministrations the congregation soon augmented; and in a short time a movement was started for a new church; the old building being a ricketty, inconvenient, rudely-dismal place, quite insufficient for the requirements of the locality.  The principal friends of the new movement were R. Newsham, the late J. Bairstow, J. Horrocks, and T. Miller, Esqrs., and what they subscribed constituted a substantial nucleus guaranteeing the commencement of operations.  In 1866, the old edifice was pulled down to make way for a new church, and during the work of re-construction divine service was performed in Vauxhall-road schools, which were, sometime after Mr. Thompson’s appointment, transferred by the Rev. Canon Parr from the Parish Church’s to St. Saviour’s district.  R. Newsham, Esq., laid the corner-stone of St. Saviour’s Church on the 26th of November, 1866; the building was consecrated by the Bishop of Manchester, on the 29th of October, 1868; on the 9th of December in that year, the Rev. W. D. Thompson was licensed to its incumbency; and on the 16th of April, 1869, the district was “legally assigned” by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.

St. Saviour’s—­designed by Mr. Hibbert, architect, of this town—­is one of the handsomest and best finished churches we have seen.  It almost seems too good for the district in which it is situated.  The style of it is Gothic.  Externally its most striking feature is the tower.  We thought at one time, when the tower had been run up a considerable distance, that it was positively “going to the dogs.”  At each of its angles there is a strange arrangement of dogs; they bristle out on all sides, and are not over good looking—­are thin, hungry, weird-looking animals, appear to have