Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Parish of Clayton (Clayton, Ont.)
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Description area
Dates of existence
History
The Parish of Clayton presently consists of three churches and formerly included one other. Services in Franktown were held in the house of Mr. Frank Jessop and at the local inn prior to 1823 with St. James' Church, Franktown completed by 1828. The first services in Innisville were held in a log building shared with Methodists and the wooden church of St. John's, Innisville was built by 1863. Land was donated in 1855 by James Ennis and the frame church of St. George's, Clayton had been built by 1863. The wooden church of Holy Trinity was built in the village of Innisville about the year 1880. The building was secularized on May 4, 1958 by Bishop Ernest Samuel Reed and the land was later sold.