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 Church of England 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 Church of England 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

Nonconformist Chapels:

Presbyterian:


 * Halifax, North Gate End Presbyterian Chapel - 1747

Independent:


 * Halifax Wade St Sion Independent Chapel - 1818
 * Halifax Square Chapel Independent - 1763
 * Halifax Bramley Lane Independent - 1831
 * Warley - 1748
 * Booth Chapel Independent - 1785
 * Ovenden Providence Chapel Independent - 1837

Baptist:


 * Rishworth - 1802 Rishworth Baptist Church records 1807
 * Lineholm Chapel Standsfield Baptist - 1816
 * Shore Chapel Baptist - 1821
 * Stansfield Baptist Church - 1737
 * Butts Green Baptist - 1837 (burials, &amp; etc)
 * Wadsworth Birchcliff Baptist - 1785

Congregational:


 * Rishworth -
 * Union Croft Queensbury, Northowram Congregational - 1800 (graveyard inscriptions)
 * Union Croft Queensbury baptisms &amp; marriage transcripts 1899

United Reformed:


 * Booth Chapel - 1836 Booth Chapel Graveyard inscriptions 1800
 * Warley United Reformed Church - 1748 (graveyard inscriptions)
 * Holywell United Reformed Church - 1850 (graveyard inscriptions)
 * Halifax Beestonley Lane United Reformed Church - 1800 (graveyard inscriptions)
 * Northowram, Heywood United Reformed Church baptisms - 1744

Methodist New Connexion:


 * Ovenden Methodist New Connexion - 1779
 * Halifax Salem New Connexion Methodist - 1806
 * Sowerby Boulderclough Chapel New Connexion Methodist - 1824
 * Midgley New Connexion Methodist Chapel - 1803

Methodist Wesleyan:


 * Stones Wesleyan Methodist Chapel - 1804
 * Brighouse Wesleyan Methodist - 1796
 * Halifax South Parade Wesleyan Methodist - 1772
 * Elland Wesleyan Methodist - 1807
 * Halifax Ebenezer Chapel Methodist - 1819
 * South Owram Wesleyan Methodist - 1807
 * Halifax Blackmires Chapel Wesleyan Methodist - 1820

Primitive Methodist:


 * Halifax Ebenezer Chapel - 1828
 * Halifax Pellon Lane Chapel - 1779
 * Shelf Primitive Methodist - 1823
 * Round Hill Primitive Methodist monumental inscriptions - 1800

Society of Friends:


 * Halifax Preparative Meeting - 1654

Roman Catholic:


 * Halifax St Mary Roman Catholic Church - 1827


 * (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