St John the Evangelist, Bierley

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St John the Evangelist church

The Church of St John the Evangelist is a Grade II* listed church situated in what is now the City of Bradford, in Yorkshire, England. [1] A private chapel was constructed here in 1766, which later became a chapel of ease of the Church of England, usually known as Bierley Chapel. That was a misnomer in the sense that it lay not in the Bierley township, but in neighbouring Bowling; the name came from the North Bierley estate to which it was originally attached. In the middle of the 19th century it became a parish church with the current name.

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History

To the north of Bierley, it was built in 1766 by John Carr as an estate chapel for Richard Richardson (1708–1781) of Bierley Hall. [2] It was consecrated in 1824. In 1828 and 1831 it was enlarged, when the north transept and a west porch were added. [1] A parish was attached to it in 1864. [3] It is now a Grade II* listed building. [1]

Chaplains to 1824

These included: [4]

1824–1867

Incumbents included: [4]

From 1868

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Historic England. "Church of St John, Bradford (1314522)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 12 February 2020.
  2. ↑ "The Richardsons and their Garden at Bierley Hall". www.bradfordhistorical.org.uk.
  3. ↑ Eng.), William Cudworth (of Bradford (1876). Round about Bradford: A Series of Sketches (descriptive and Semi-historical) of Forty-two Places Within Six Miles of Bradford. T. Brear. p. 73.
  4. 1 2 3 Cudworth, William of Bradford (1891). Histories of Bolton and Bowling. Bradford, T. Brear and co., limited. p.  266.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 James, John (1841). The History and Topography of Bradford, (in the County of York,): With Topographical Notices of Its Parish. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. p. 327 note.
  6. ↑ "Vicars Past". 13 September 2019.

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