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]
| Birchcliffe Baptist Church | |
|---|---|
 Entrance to Birchcliffe centre (2009) | |
  Birchcliffe Baptist Church Location in West Yorkshire | |
| 53°44′36.51″N 2°0′31.57″W / 53.7434750°N 2.0087694°W | |
| Location | Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire |
| Country | England |
| Architecture | |
| Heritage designation | Grade II |
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.[4]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Hebden Bridge Baptist Heritage Trail: Birchcliffe (PDF), Hope Baptist Church, retrieved 21 November 2014
- ^ Mt. Zion Meeting Book, 1808 – 1817, West Yorkshire Archive Services HBR:6, 1808
- ^ Birchcliffe Baptist Church, 1762 – 1962 (Booklet), Kershaw & Ashworth, 1962
- ^ Historic England. "Birchcliffe Centre (1299710)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
External links
edit- History of Birchcliffe Baptist
- Records deposited with the National Archives
- Records deposited with the West Yorkshire Archive Services
- Birchcliffe Centre
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