HEATON-NORRIS, a chapelry in the parish of
MANCHESTER, hundred of SALFORD, county palatine of
LANCASTER, 2 miles (N. W. by N.) from Stockport,
containing 6958 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester,
endowed with £800 private benefaction, £400 royal
bounty, and £ 1400 parliamentary grant, and in the
patronage of the Warden and Fellows of the Collegiate
Church of Manchester. The chapel is dedicated to St.
Thomas. There is a place of worship for Independents.
Two cottages were built by subscription for the purpose
of a school; one is occupied by a schoolmaster, the
other is let for £5. 5. per annum. Near the chapel
is a building coniprising a school-room, with apartments
above for the master's residence; it is supposed
to have been erected on the waste, about a century ago,
by subscription among the inhabitants of the township,
who appoint the master, and is endowed with £ 10 per
annum, arising from a bequest of £200 by John Hollingpriest,
in 1785. The petty sessions for the Manchester
division of the hundred of Salford are held here.
This place is separated from Stockport by the river Mersey.
At Heaton-Mersey a Sunday school was endowed
with £500, in 1815, by Robert Parker, Esq.