The separate parochial accounts kept for Langdale continually give items for repair and upkeep of the fabric and its adjuncts. One of these was a "common stable," doubtless used for the accommodation of those who rode to worship. After consultations, the re-building of the chapel and school was decided on in 1751, and the work was slowly proceeded with, at the expense of the township, through the next three years. There may have been always a priest's lodging in the valley. In 1762 the "Parson's House" was repaired for 13s. 31⁄2 d.
The following is a list—incomplete in its earlier part—of clerks, readers, and curates who served the chapel after the Reformation:—
| William Gollinge "of The Thrange in Langden, | |
| clerk" had a son baptized 1590. | |
| Charles Middlefell "clerke of Landale" died 1643. | |
| Richard Harrison, clerk; died 1670. | Daniel Green, d. 1829. |
| Richard Steele, d. 1780. | Owen Lloyd, d. 1841. |
| Thomas Jackson, d. 1821. | Stephen Birkett, d. 1860. |
| William Jackson, 1821.[179] | James Coward, vicar; 1885. |
| Thomas Sewell, 1822. | R. S. Hulbert, ret. 1900. |
Owen Lloyd was the son of Charles Lloyd, who was the friend of Charles Lamb and for some time had resided at old Brathay. He inherited considerable poetic gifts, and composed the Rushbearing Hymn always sung at the Ambleside Festival. He lived for a while with his friend, Mrs. Luff, at Fox Ghyll, Loughrigg.
Rydal.—The chapel of St. Mary, Rydal, was built by Lady Fleming in 1824 and consecrated by the Bishop of Chester on August 27th, 1825. This new foundation took a large slice out of the old parish, though customary dues and tithes continued for some time to be paid to the rector. (See later.)
Brathay.—The church, which was built here in 1836 by Mr. Giles Redmayne, stands on the Lancashire side of the river, but its parochial boundary took another slice off the old parish, which was now wholly robbed of the township of Rydal and Loughrigg.
So the old mother church, robbed of her daughter chapels and the folk she so long fostered, rules to-day only the little valley of Grasmere.
