Salford nr. Manchester / Chelford / Salford / Sauford / Shalford

There are five entries for this Salford in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SJ8298/salford/] [accessed 22 July 2014], one of which, the one in the 1086 tenancy of Roger of Poitou, reports a [priest in it; there is no mention of a church in any of the entries. The Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 4, 1911) notes: "Apart from the private chapel of Ordsall [...] there does not appear to have been any place of worship [...] in the township until Humphrey Booth built and endowed the chapel [...] S[acred] T[rinity] Church] was originally built in a debased Gothic style in 1635. The tower was added early in the 18th century, but in 1748 the vibration of the bells which were then hung in it having brought down a part of the body of the church, [...] the whole of the building, with the exception of the tower, was taken down in 1751 and rebuilt in the following year [...] The old high pews were cut down and made into open seats in 1886. At the same time other improvements were effected, including the opening out of a baptistery under the tower." The VCH (ibid.) gives the first recorded priest here as Richard Hollinworth, incumbent in 1636. Also in the VCH (ibid.) is mention of a manor chapel in Ordsall [cf. supra], the manor documented by 1177; the chapel appears to have been purely a manorial oratory, and not a spatious one to judge by a desciption in this source: "the name of chapel which has been given to the upper room being entirely fanciful"; still, a 14th-century chaplain is noted in the VCH: "Henry, chaplain of Salford, is named in 1323". [NB: it is not clear what the role of the priest named in the Domesday entry was in this place -- we have no information on the font of the original 17th-century church here].