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
 * StoneyRoyd - 1857

Nonconformist Chapels:

Presbyterian:


 * Halifax, North Gate End Presbyterian Chapel - 1747

Independent:


 * Halifax Wade St Sion Independent Chapel - 1818
 * Halifax Square Chapel Independent - 1763
 * Warley - 1748
 * Booth Chapel Independent - 1785

Baptist:


 * Rishworth - 1802
 * Lineholm Chapel Standsfield Baptist - 1816

Congregational:


 * Rishworth -

United Reformed:


 * Booth Chapel - 1836

Methodist New Connexion:


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

Methodist Wesleyan:


 * Stones Wesleyan Methodist Chapel - 1804
 * Halifax South Parade Wesleyan Methodist - 1772
 * Elland Wesleyan Methodist - 1807
 * Halifax Ebenezer Chapel Methodist - 1819

Primitive Methodist:


 * Halifax Ebenezer Chapel - 1828
 * Halifax Pellon Lane Chapel - 1779
 * (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