- 1703 Application and Registration
- 1704 Indenture transferring land from John Andrew to Hugh Lord Willoughby and other trustees
- scan of original [note: large file – may take a while to load]
- easier to read version
- 1786 Indenture to acquire land for Chapel House
- 1786 (?) Handwritten note appointing new trustees
- 1787 Account for Chapel repairs
- 1790 Bill of thatching
- 1798 Rivington Chapel quarterly collection
- 1808 Rivington Chapel repair bill
- 1817 Appeal for subscription to drain the Chapel yard
- 1820 Receipt for 24 bushels of lime
- 1820 to 1827 Rivington Chapel quarterly collections & other income
- 1820 Abstract from accounts
- 1816 New iron gates – Mr Ridgway’s bill and final account
- 1824/25 Rivington Chapel quarterly collections – individual details
- 1827/28 Robert Latham bill for cleaning Chapel
- 1832 Distribution of book prizes
- 1833 Abstract from accounts
- 1837 Rivington Chapel registration certificate for marriages
- 1838 Certificate or Statement to accompany Register Books (this is extracted from the revised edition of ‘The Nonconformist Chapel in Rivington, Lancashire, Rivington Unitarian Chapel, including its early registers”)
- 1859 Fisher House School – prospectus
- 1876 Receipt for new bell
- 1779/1887/1906 Extract from trust deeds re L&Y Railway Stock
- 1915 Rivington Chapel – balance sheet
- 1915 Sunday School – balance sheet
- 1919 Rivington Chapel Congregation – Victory & Thanksgiving Ball
- 1920 Rivington Chapel – rules & regulations
- 1921 Tenancy agreement for Chapel House – John Miller
- 1923 Rivington Chapel – lantern lecture by Rev W T Bushrod of Chorley
- 1932 Rivington Chapel Committee – income & expenditure
- Properties & Investments held by trustees, including trusts
- Undated Rivington Chapel – library book lending number
- 1917 to 1953 Rivington Chapel service notices
- 1917 Anniversary Sermons Notice
- 1925 Anniversary Sermons Notice
- 1927 Anniversary Sermons Notice
- 1931 Anniversary Sermons Service Sheet
- 1933 Unveiling of Tablet Service Notice
- 1938 Anniversary Sermons – Front Page of Service
- 1938 Hymns Sung at 1938 Sermons Originally Sung in 1838
- 1940 Anniversary Sermons – Front Page of Service
- 1952 Re-opening Service Notice
- 1953 250th Anniversary Celebrations Notice
- 1953 Anniversary and Coronations Sermons – Front Page of Service
- 1934 to 1960 Social events
- 1952 Newspaper and Magazine articles re renovation of Chapel
- 1952 Endowment Fund
- 1953 Rivington Chapel poster for 250th anniversary celebrations
- 1965 Charity Registration
- 2017 Land Registry Registration of Chapel Land
- Undated – Review of concert depicting a year’s activities
- A miscellany of photographs
- 1953 restoration of Chapel (this date appears to be too late as the Chapel re-opened in 1952)
- Andrews Crompton JP 1869 to 1933
- C J Darbyshire – first mayor of Bolton, buried at Rivington Chapel 1874
- Chapel House and Sheephouse Lane
- Chapel House built 1786
- Margaret Crompton 1844 to 1910
- Rivington Chapel Gates (see reference to 1816 above)
- Rev S Thompson
- Wedding Ellen Lawrence & John Percy Taylor married at Rivington Chapel August 1904
- John William Crompton 1834 to 1905
- Black ‘A’ Moor’s Head Hotel, Horrobin Lane, Rivington – the hotel was known locally as ‘The Black Lad’ and stood on the site of the Rivington Bowling Club car park. It was demolished in 1903
- Higher Ward’s Farm (also known as Clock House) overlooked the the junction of Gilsbrook and Rivington Lane.
- 1664 Rivington Miscellaneous – dispute between Peter Shaw of Rivington and Heath Charnock and Dame Margaret Standish over lead mining at Anglezarke
- 1860 Darbishire v Lowe
- 1732 Rivington Miscellaneous – account for building the beacon
- Plans of the Graveyard
- A Plan of the Graveyard before 1859
- A Plan of the Graveyard after it was extended in 1859
- Plan of Graveyard August 1960 in 6 Pieces
- Garden of Remembrance Licence and Plan 1969/1970
- 1904 Bye-laws amended 1914, 1969 and 1974
- The Willoughby Memorial (see Our History for information on the memorial)
- Willoughby Memorial – details of inscription: this relates to the commissioning by John Shaw in 1845 of the copy now in the Chapel
- Willoughby Memorial – transcribed text
- 1993 Willoughby Memorial – report on conservation work undertaken
- Photograph of Willoughby Memorial in situ 2017
- Chapel Postcards – A series of 8 postcards have been put together for sale by the Chapel. The pictures on these are historical photographs of the Chapel.
- No 1 – The Chapel – Posted June 24th 1903
- No 2 – Rivington Chapel 1903 – Bicentenary 1703 – 1903
- No 3 – Rivington Chapel – Posted September 9th 1904
- No 4 – Notice Board – Rev. S. Thompson 1881 – 1909
- No 5 – The Chapel, Rivington – circa 1948
- No 6 – The Chapel interior after refurbishment – 1953
- No 7 – Chapel members – c. 1955 (provided by Paul Fairclough)
- No 8 – Rivington Chapel – c. 1960
- Original Chapel Bell
- List of Known Archival Sources
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