Parish Church, Halifax - DPC00589
Church, Churches, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Halifax, Minster, Parish Church
Old Tristram Poor Box. Postcard dated 1943 which says: I am writing this in the Queen Hotel, Halifax. We have just finished a lovely meal of bully beef sandwiches. I am very sorry but this is the best card I could get in this one-eyed Hole!
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Parish Church, Halifax - DPC00587
Church, Churches, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Halifax, Minster, Parish Church
There has been a church in this site for at least 700 years and in recent years became a minster. This is a good shot of the interior.
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Parish Church, Halifax - DPC00585
Church, Churches, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Halifax, Minster, Parish Church
There has been a church in this site for at least 700 years and in recent years became a minster. Postcard dated 1906.
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Parish Church, Halifax - DPC00583
Church, Churches, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Halifax, Minster, Parish Church
There has been a church in this site for at least 700 years and in recent years it became a minster.
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Parish Church, Halifax - DPC00582
Church, Churches, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Halifax, Minster, Parish Church
There has been a church in this site for at least 700 years and in recent years it became a minster. A moonlit view of the church.
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Parish Church, Halifax - DPC00580
Church, Churches, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Halifax, Minster, Parish Church
There has been a church in this site for at least 700 years and in recent years it became a minster.
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Halifax Parish Church - DPC00578
Church, Churches, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Halifax, Minster, Parish Church
There has been a church in this site for at least 700 years and in recent years became a minster. This is a nice line drawing by George Fossick.
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Halifax Parish Church - DPC00576
Church, Churches, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Halifax, Minster, Parish Church
There has been a church in this site for at least 700 years and in recent years became a minster.
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Halifax Parish Church - DPC00574
Church, Churches, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Halifax, Minster, Parish Church
There has been a church in this site for at least 700 years and in recent years it became a minster. There is an interesting glimpse of buildings to the right which are no longer there today.
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Halifax Parish Church - DPC00572
Church, Churches, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Halifax, Minster, Parish Church
There has been a church in this site for at least 700 years and in recent years it became a minster.
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St Jude's Church, Halifax - DPC00475
Churches, Halifax, Savile Park, St Jude's Church
This church is on Free School Lane which leads down to the former Royal Halifax Infirmary. The view is different today because of the large number of trees in the area. The houses on the right remaim and it is a sought after location for house buyers today.
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Halifax Parish Church - DPC00467
Church, Churches, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Halifax, Minster, Parish Church
Interior view of the church.
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Halifax Parish Church - DPC00465
Church, Churches, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Halifax, Minster, Parish Church
The parish church of the town is now officially a minster.
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St Hilda's Church, Halifax - DPC00451
Churches, Halifax, St Hilda's Church
This church is on Gibraltar Road at West End.
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St Jude's Church, Halifax - DPC00439
Churches, Halifax, Savile Park, St Jude's Church
This church is in the Savile Park area of the town, with Halifax Infirmary at the bottom of this road. The view is much the same today, though the trees have matured considerably.
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Halifax Parish Church, now The Minster - DPC00407
Church, Churches, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Halifax, Minster, Parish Church
Postcard dated 1907.
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Halifax Parish Church - DPC00387
Church, Churches, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Halifax, Minster, Parish Church
There has certainly been a church at Halifax for about 900 years. The Minster, formerly a Parish Church until 23 November 2009, was completed by about 1438. It comprises a nave, chancel and full-length aisles, and is thought to be the third church on this site, but it includes stonework from earlier periods. There are a few carved chevron stones, which date from before 1150, and several 12th-century tomb-covers in the porch. Windows of the Early English style in the north wall are replacements of originals dating from the 14th century. A portion of this north wall is much earlier, and may have originally been part of the Norman church; it has sometimes been claimed this was the south wall of an older church.
After the completion of the present nave and chancel, several additions were made. The tower was erected between 1449 and 1482; and the Rokeby and Holdsworth Chapels – originally chantry chapels – were completed by about 1535.
Jacobean box pews are a prominent feature of the Minster, and most of those in the nave date from 1633 to 1635. They bear some similarity to those at Bolton Percy, and the names of the carpenters involved are known. A pew in the centre aisle bears the remains of a memorial brass to John Waterhouse, who died in 1539/40. The carved arms of Richard Sunderland of High Sunderland, who died in 1634, are attached to another pew. Several ancient pew nameplates may be seen attached to a board on the inner north wall of the tower, the oldest dates to 1615 and reads “This stall made at the cost of Robert Fisher of Halifax.”
A small portion of Medieval stained-glass survives in the upper westernmost clerestory window, which was removed from other windows in the mid 19th century. The Puritans who were prominent in the town in the 17th century, thought stained glass with its ‘images’ was an abomination. During the Commonwealth (1649–1660) many plain-glass leaded windows of a unique design were installed, paid for by Mrs Dorothy Waterhouse. Many of these were later replaced by Victorian stained glass, but those that survived in 1958 were carefully rebuilt. At that date there were three of these on each side of the chancel, but now there are five on the south side and only one on the north. The large west window in the tower is a late 19th-century reconstruction of a Commonwealth window dating from 1657, but contains no original work. The great east window of the church depicts the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus, and was completed in 1854. It is the work of George Hedgeland (1825–98), who exhibited stained glass at the Great Exhibition of 1851. The remaining glass in the Parish Church dates also from the Victorian and Edwardian periods.
Courtesy of Wikipedia.
Postcard dated 1945.
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Parish Church, Halifax - DPC00381
Church, Churches, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Halifax, Minster, Parish Church
There has been a church on this site for many centuries and it became a Minster in the 2000s. Postcard dated 1930.
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Parish Church, Halifax - DPC00379
Church, Churches, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Halifax, Minster, Parish Church
There has been a church on this site for many centuries and it became a Minster in the 2000s. On the left is Dispensary Walk. Postcard dated 1908.
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All Souls Church and Akroyd park , Halifax - DPC00361
Akroyd Park, All Souls Church, Church, Churches, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Halifax, Minster, Parks
The mill chimneys and factories of Halifax can be seen in the background of this photograph. The former home of Colonel Akroyd (after whom the park is named), Bankfield House is now owned by Calderdale Council and houses a library, a museum and the regimental museum of the Duke of Wellington Regiment.
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All Saints' Church, Salterhebble, Halifax - DPC00347
All Saints Church, Churches, Dudwell Lane, Halifax, Skircoat, Skircoat Green
Postcard dated 1918. In November 1996, All Saints' celebrated the 150th anniversary. The infant Church of England parish was one of the new districts resulting from Sir Robert Peel's New Parishes Act of 1843, designed to make pastoral and other provision for the rapidly growing industrial areas. Carved out of the very large parish of Halifax, most of the area served then also comprises the present parish, covering Salterhebble, Skircoat Green and Copley, at the south end of the town of Halifax.
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St Mary's Church, Halifax - DPC00297
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- DPC00273
All Souls Church, Church, Churches, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Halifax, Minster
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All Saints Church, Salterhebble - DPC00265
All Saints Church, Churches, Dudwell Lane, Halifax, Skircoat
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Halifax Parish Church, now the Minster - DPC00259
Church, Churches, Churches & Chapels, Churches_&_Chapels, Halifax, Minster, Parish Church
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