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
 * Rishworth -
 * Salterhebble - 1847
 * Shelf - 1850
 * Sowerby-Bridge - 1664
 * Stainland - 1782
 * Stainland with Old Lindley - 1839
 * StoneyRoyd - 1857
 * Wadsworth -
 * Warley -

Nonconformist Chapels included:


 * Independent Chapel (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