A Complete List of Halifax's Chapels and Churches

Halifax, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, by 1848 had over 130,000 inhabitants and "numerous churches". Since most 19th century historical treatises do not proviode the complete parochial makeup for this very large township, here is as complete a list of Halifax's chapels and churches (as of 1870) as can be compiled:

St John the Baptist - 1503

Halifax Holy Trinity - 1795

Halifax All Souls, Haley Hill - 1859

Halifax St Augustine - 1872

Halifax St James - 1831

Halifax St. Paul, King's-Cross - 1847

Halifax St Mary - 1869

The following district churches also lay within the civil parish boundaries of Halifax:


 * Elland - 1600
 * Briers - 1732
 * Heptonstall - 1593
 * Barkisland - 1854
 * Coley - 1734
 * Cragg Vale - 1815
 * Erringden - 1815
 * Greetland - 1858
 * Hebde-Bridge - 1853
 * Brighouse or Hipperholme with Brighouse - 1831
 * Illingworth - 1695
 * Langfield - 1707 Overseers Account Books - see Heptonstall Chapelry
 * Lightcliffe - 1707
 * Luddenham - 1626
 * Mount-Pellon - 1854
 * Mytholmroyd - 1844
 * Norland -
 * Ovenden - 1839
 * South Owram - 1813
 * Rastrick - 1790
 * Rippenden - 1684
 * Salterhebble - 1847
 * Shelf - 1850
 * Sowerby-Bridge - 1664
 * Stainland - 1782
 * Stainland with Old Lindley - 1839
 * StoneyRoyd - 1857

Nonconformist Chapels included:

Presbyterian:


 * Halifax, North Gate End Presbyterian Chapel - 1747

Independent:


 * Halifax Wade St Sion Independent Chapel - 1818
 * Halifax Square Chapel Independent - 1763
 * Warley - 1748

Baptist:


 * Rishworth - 1802

Congregational:


 * Rishworth -

Methodist New Connexion:


 * Ovenden Methodist New Connexion - 1779
 * Halifax Salem New Connexion Methodist - 1806

Methodist Wesleyan:


 * Stones Wesleyan Methodist Chapel - 1804


 * (5 chapels) - at least one was built in 1857 and one other in 1869
 * Baptists (3)
 * Society of Friends (Quakers) - 1
 * Unitarians - 1
 * Wesleyan Methodist - 2
 * Primitive Methodist - 1
 * New Connexion Methodist - 2
 * United Free Methodists - 1
 * Roman Catholic - 1