St Thomas a Becket Church, Heptonstall. - BIM00966
Church Tower, Churches & Chapels, Colour, Gravestone, Graveyard, Heptonstall Old Church, St Thomas a Becket
The ruins of the old medieval church which following gale damage in the mid-19th century was replace by a new church adjacent to it.
Bill Marsden
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St Thomas a Becket Church, Heptonstall. - BIM00933
Church Tower, Churches & Chapels, Colour, Gravestone, Graveyard, Heptonstall Old Church, St Thomas a Becket
The ruins of the old medieval church which following gale damage in the mid-19th century was replace by a new church adjacent to it.
Bill Marsden
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Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
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Hebden Bridge - Heptonstall Road from Fairfield.PNH00779. - PNH00779
Building, Church Tower, Churches & Chapels, Double Decker Houses, Dry Stone Wall, Fairfield, Fields, General View, Hebden Bridge, Heptonstall Church, Heptonstall Road, Houses, Palace House Road, Street Names, Wall, Wintry Scene
General view across to Heptonstall Road with the church tower on the sky line.
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Ilkley Parish Church - BIM00431
Church Tower, Churches & Chapels, Ilkley All Saints Parish Church
All Saints
Bill Marsden
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Ilkley Parish Church - BIM00430
Church Tower, Churches & Chapels, Ilkley, Places
All Saints
Bill Marsden
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Ilkley Parish Church - BIM00431
Church Tower, Churches & Chapels, Ilkley All Saints Parish Church
All Saints
Bill Marsden
Bill Marsden
PHDA - Bill Marsden Collection
BIM00431.tif
Ilkley Parish Church - BIM00430
Church Tower, Churches & Chapels, Ilkley, Places
All Saints
Bill Marsden
Bill Marsden
PHDA - Bill Marsden Collection
BIM00430.tif
The Tower of St Mary's, 1972 - TNC00173
Church, Church & Chapels, Church Tower, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Minster, St Mary's, Todmorden, clock tower
Thomas Newell
Thomas Newell
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1972, 1970s
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St James the Great, Hebden Bridge - WSC00191
Church, Church Tower, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Hebden Bridge, Minster, Mytholm, St James The Greater Church
Hebden Bridge's Parish Church situated out of the town to the west at Mytholm. One of the so called 'million pound' churches it was built on land donated by the Rev. John Armytage Rhodes of adjacent Mytholm Hall. it was consecrated in 1933.
W. Shepherd
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1930s
W. Shepherd
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Luddendenfoot Congregational Chapel, Burnley Road. - WAO00245
Burnley Road, Church, Church Tower, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Luddenden Foot, Minster, Street Names, clock tower
The church opened Good Friday 1859 with the lower part used as a school for mill workers. The church has closed and the building converted into dwellings.
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Wayne Ogden
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Heptonstall Churches - LLG00274
Church, Church Tower, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Heptonstall Old Church, Interior, Minster
The tower of the 'new' Victorian church seen through the arches of the ruined Old Church
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Lloyd Greenwood
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Heptonstall
Tower of the Old Church, Heptonstall - JSB00190
Church, Church Tower, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Heptonstall, Minster, Places
The old church at Heptonstall was dedicated to God and St Thomas a Becket – Thomas a Becket being in great popularity after his murder in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170 and his canonisation three years later. There may have been a structure in the twelfth century, but the origins of this building are believed to be thirteenth century. Very little of the original building remains. It never actually became a church in the technical sense – it was officially a ‘parochial chapel of Halifax Parish Church’ but it is invariably referred to as a church. It was extended early in the fourteenth century and again during the fifteenth – the latter forming the bulk of the ruin.
The original structure consisted of a chancel, the present south nave and a tower. Later adaptations gave it two naves, two aisles and two chantry chapels as well as the tower – a remarkable and rare set of features. The fifteenth century church tower still stands complete with a thirteenth century base and an embattled top stage. It has a stair turret in the south east corner.
Parts of the structure have been repaired as memorials over the years, including the porch (notice the stone tablet within). Notice also the sanctus bellcote on the apex of the original gable end in which a small bell used to ring at the appropriate times during Mass.
Detailed church records, now in the care of the Leeds Archives Department, go back to the sixteenth century and one interesting item reads ‘1755: For making clock fast when near blown of[f] in winds…£0.2s.6d.’
John Wesley preached here on five occasions but was not impressed and is recorded as having said in 1786, ‘I preached at ten in Heptonstall Church, the ugliest I know’.
In the great storm in 1847 the west face of the tower fell away and plans were devised to rebuild the whole tower. However, a lesser measure of repairing the damage was approved and the church was used up to 1854 when its near neighbour was completed. Over a period of twenty years the old church deteriorated rapidly and the internal fittings had to be disposed of.
Possibly Nora Walton
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Steven Brook
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Heptonstall
Tower of the Old Church, Heptonstall - JSB00153
Church, Church Tower, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Heptonstall, Heptonstall Old Church, Minster, Places, ruins
The ruined church of St Thomas a Becket.
Possibly Nora Walton
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Steven Brook
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Heptonstall
Heptonstall Old Church. - HLS05158
Church, Church Tower, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Heptonstall, Heptonstall Church, Heptonstall Old Church, Lantern Slide, Minster, Places
The church, dedicated to St Thomas a Beckett, first dates from the mid-13th century but was re-constructed and enlarged on several occasions over subsequent centuries. By the mid-19th century it was structurally in poor condition and then was badly damaged by a severe gale in 1847. Instead of repairing it was decided to replace with a new building in the same churchyard and this church, dedicated to St Thomas the Apostle, opened in 1854. The old church was largely demolished but today its ruins are preserved
2013-02-27T10:53:06
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Heptonstall
Heptonstall New Church. - HLS05154
Buildings, Church, Church Tower, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Fields, Heptonstall, Heptonstall Church, Heptonstall Old Church, Houses, Lantern Slide, Minster, Places, St Thomas the Apostle
The old medieval church was badly damaged by a gale in 1847 but rather than repairing it a decision was taken to build a new church in the same churchyard. Dedicated to St Thomas the Apostle this was completed in 1854 at a cost of
2013-02-25T15:46:35
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Heptonstall
Heptonstall Old Church from a drawing in 1845 - JCA00208
Church, Church Tower, Churches & Chapels, Churchyard, Graveyard, Heptonstall, Heptonstall Church, Heptonstall Old Church, Lantern Slide, Places
HLS05156. The church, dedicated to St Thomas a Beckett, first dates from the mid-13th century but was re-constructed and enlarged on several occasions over subsequent centuries. By the mid-19th century it was structurally in poor condition and then was badly damaged by a severe gale in 1847. Instead of repairing it was decided to replace with a new in the same churchyard and this church, dedicated to St Thomas the Apostle, opened in 1854. The old church was largely demolished but today its ruins are preserved
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2013-02-27T10:45:47Z
Atack family
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Heptonstall