A Comprehensive List of Halifax's Chapels and Churches

England Yorkshire  West Riding of Yorkshire  Halifax

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 provide the complete parochial makeup for this very large township, here is as complete a list of the ancient(*) Parish of St John the Baptist Halifax (Church of England) and its chapels and churches (as of 1870) as can be compiled:

Church of England

 * St John the Baptist* - 1503
 * Halifax Christ Church -see Mount Pellon
 * Halifax Holy Trinity - 1795
 * Halifax All Souls, Haley Hill - 1859
 * Halifax St Augustine - 1872
 * Halifax St Hilda - 1909
 * Halifax St Jude - 1891
 * Halifax St James - 1831
 * Halifax St Mary - 1870
 * Halifax Old St Paul - 1772
 * Halifax St. Paul, King's-Cross - 1847
 * Halifax St Mary - 1869
 * Halifax St John in the Wilderness - see Cragg Vale below
 * Halifax St Thomas the Apostle - 1860

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


 * Barkisland - 1854
 * Briers - 1732 - see also Southowram
 * Brighouse St James - 1870
 * Brighouse St Andrew - 1840?
 * Coley - 1720
 * Copley - 1866
 * Cragg Vale - 1815
 * Elland - 1600
 * Erringden - 1815
 * Greetland - 1858
 * Hebden-Bridge - 1853
 * Heptonstall - 1593
 * Hill Top - 1843
 * Brighouse St Martin or Hipperholme with Brighouse - 1831
 * Illingworth St Mary - 1695
 * Langfield - 1707 Overseers Account Books - see Heptonstall Chapelry
 * Lightcliffe Chapel or Eastfield St Matthew - 1707 (built by 1529)
 * Luddenden - 1626
 * Mount-Pellon - 1854
 * Mytholmroyd - 1844
 * Norland - 1716
 * Norland St Luke - 1866
 * Northowram - 1846 - see also Halifax All Souls
 * Old Brigg Sowerby Chapel - 1538; superseded by Christ Church, Sowerby Bridge (see below)
 * Ovenden - 1839
 * South Owram - 1813
 * Rastrick - 1716
 * Rastrick - 1716


 * Rippenden - 1684


 * Salterhebble - 1847
 * Shelf - 1850
 * Sowerby-Bridge - 1664
 * Sowerby Bridge Christ Church - 1821


 * Sowerby St Mary - 1848
 * St Peter's, Sowerby Chapel - 1592
 * Stainland - 1782


 * Stainland with Old Lindley - 1839
 * Warley St John the Evangelist - 1878

Nonconformist Chapels
[Be certain to see the FamilySearch Catalog online for additional Halifax Nonconformist chapel registers for this populated region. Type "Halifax" and click on "Church records and/or Church records - Indexes"]

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
 * Northowram (or Coley) Independent - 1644 (to 1752)
 * 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
 * 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
 * Elland Wesleyan Methodist - 1807
 * Halifax South Parade Wesleyan Methodist - 1772
 * Halifax Blackmires Chapel Wesleyan Methodist - 1820
 * Halifax Ebenezer Chapel Methodist - 1819
 * South Owram Wesleyan Methodist - 1807

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

References

Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848) London

John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (abt 1870) London - Edinburgh

Jurisdiction 1851 Maps project at: FamilySearch.org

FamilySearch Catalog at: FamilySearch.org