Birchcliffe Baptist Church

Birchcliffe Baptist Church
Birchcliffe Baptist Church
Location in West Yorkshire
Coordinates: 53°44′36.51″N 2°0′31.57″W / 53.7434750°N 2.0087694°W / 53.7434750; -2.0087694
Location Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire
Country England
Architecture
Heritage designation Grade II

Birchcliffe Baptist Church is a redundant Baptist chapel in the town of Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, England. It was founded by Daniel Taylor in 1764.[1]

In 1807 a splinter group left to found Mount Zion Baptist Church, Slack, Heptonstall as they were unhappy with the ordination of a new minister, Henry Hollinrake.[2]

Three churches called Birchcliffe have existed on the site: the second was built in 1825, and demolished in 1933; the third and current building was built further down the hill and opened on 31 October 1899.[3] It closed for worship in the 1970s.

Today the building is Grade II listed and is known as the Birchcliffe Centre. Little remains of the original chapel buildings, aside from part of the school building and the graveyard.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hebden Bridge Baptist Heritage Trail: Birchcliffe (PDF), Hope Baptist Church, retrieved 21 November 2014
  2. ↑ Mt. Zion Meeting Book, 1808 – 1817, West Yorkshire Archive Services HBR:6, 1808
  3. ↑ Birchcliffe Baptist Church, 1762 – 1962 (Booklet), Kershaw & Ashworth, 1962


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