A Complete List of Bradford's Chapels and District Churches

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"BRADFORD (St. Peter), a borough, market-town, and parish, and the head of a union, in the wapentake of Morley, W. riding of York, 10 miles (W. by S.) from Leeds, 34 (S. W.) from York, and 196 (N. N. W.) from London; comprising the townships of Allerton, North Bierley, Bowling, Bradford, Clayton, Eccleshill, Heaton, Manningham, Shipley, and Wilsden, and the chapelries of Haworth, Horton, and Thornton; the whole containing 105,257 inhabitants, of whom 34,560 are in the town.

From: 'Bracknell - Bradford', A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 326-331. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50819 Date accessed: 02 September 2011.

Here is a complete list of Bradford chapelries and district churches as of 1848:


 * Bradford St. Peter - 1596
 * Bradford St. John - 1854
 * Bradford Holy Trinity - 1864
 * Bradford All Saints - 1864
 * Bradford St. Thomas - 1862
 * Bradford St. Michael and All Angels - 1867
 * Bradford St. James' Church - 1839
 * Bankfoot - 1849
 * Bierley - 1824
 * Bowling St John - 1842
 * Broomfields St. Luke - 1862
 * Buttershaw - 1839
 * Clayton - 1851
 * Cullingworth - 1849
 * Daisy-Hill - 1881
 * Denholme-Gate - 1846
 * Eccleshill - 1716
 * Great Horton - 1809
 * Haworth - 1640
 * Heaton St Barnabas - 1863
 * Hortongreen All Saints - 1813
 * Horton St James - 1837
 * Laister-Dyke - 1861
 * Manningham St Jude - 1865
 * Manningham St Mary - 1856
 * Manningham St Paul - 1848
 * Queensbury - 1847
 * Shipley - 1826
 * Thornton - 1678
 * Wibsey -1674
 * Wilsden - 1826
 * Bradford Christ Church - 1838

There are places of worship for--


 * Baptists
 * Society of Friends
 * Independents
 * Primitive Methodists
 * Wesleyans
 * Unitarians
 * Roman Catholics