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  • Collection: Todmorden Churches & Chapels

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This building was used as a meeting room for St Mary's church.

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Only the chapel's gate and railings can be seen here. A chapel was first opened her by the New Connexion Methodists in 1816 but was sold to the Baptists in 1841. By 1878 they had outgrown it and a new Chapel was built on the site. It closed and was…

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The chapel was founded in 1816 by the Methodist New Connextion. The Congregational Church purchased the chapel along with the Manse and school in 1841 for the sum of £1,250. The Rev. Robert Stevens was the first Minister.

By 1878, the building had…

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Todmorden’s first Baptist Meeting House was built on this site about 1703 but it closed eighty years later although there was short revival at the end of the century but then in 1804 the congregation moved down the hill to their new Rehoboth Chapel…

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Previously based at Millwood the congregation moved to Roomfield in 1877 nearer to Todmorden Centre. The Chapel was demolished in 1953 due to dry rot and similarly the schoolroom, which had temporarily been used for services, followed the same fate…

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A church was founded here in 1848 and the chapel seen here closed in 1965 and is now a private house.

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On the hillside above Burnley Road the chapel was founded in 1777 and enlarged and extended over the years. The church closed in the 1960s and a part is now a private house but the rest is derelict and the chapel roofless.

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Site of former Springside Congregational Chapel

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There has been a church here since about 1450 high up on the hills above the Todmorden valley and it was built as a Chapel of Ease for Heptonstall Parochial Chapelry to serve the townships of Stansfield and Langfield.
The old medieval church was…

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The second floor was used as a Christian meeting Room.

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There seems to have been a church on the site since the 15th century but prior to the mid-19th century Todmorden was a chapelry mainly in the Parish of Rochdale but part in the Parish of Halifax. With the opening of Christ Church in 1832 St Mary's…

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The choir and sanctary. Taken prior to the re-ordering of the church which took place in the early 1990s.

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There seems to have been a church on the site since the 15th century but prior to the mid-19th century Todmorden was a chapelry mainly in the Parish of Rochdale but part in the Parish of Halifax. With the opening of Christ Church in 1832 St Mary's…

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There seems to have been a church on the site since the 15th century but prior to the mid-19th century Todmorden was a chapelry mainly in the Parish of Rochdale but part in the Parish of Halifax. With the opening of Christ Church in 1832 St Mary's…

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St Michael & All Angels C of E Church, Burnley Road, Cornholme built in 1902. The rear part of the church has been converted into a two storey community space, available for hire, and separated from the area used for services.

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St Peter's was devastated by fire on 28th May 1948, but was rebuilt and re-dedicated on 10th March 1956. The church had originally been built in 1845 when Walsden became a parish in its own right.

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St Peters Parish Church was constructed in 1845 when Walsden became a parish in its own right and no longer part of Todmorden Chapelry. The church was consecrated in 1848. This photo was taken before the devastating fire that took place on May 28th…

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Completed in 1869 the Grade II listed lodge is at the gates to Todmorden’s landmark Unitarian Church, itself Grade 1 listed. When the church closed in 1987 services were held in the lodge for the dwindling congregation but this finally ended in 1992.

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The Chapel of Cross Stone or Crostone takes its name from a fragment of an 11th century cross found in the wall of a barn. Situated in the Township of Stansfield, it was part of the Heptonstall parish, but due to the size of the area covered, a sub…

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Building to the left demolished C.1969. Chemist shop, Campbells furniture shop. Prior to that Haigh's dress shop.

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A school and preaching room opened here in 1841 but they soon outgrew it and a new school and chapel opened in 1848 at Inchfield Bottom. This too proved too small and another chapel was built in 1861 as seen here.
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