St Matthew's Church, Rastrick

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St Matthew's Church, Rastrick
Anglican and Methodist
Church of St Matthew
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St Matthew's Church, Rastrick
53°41′26″N1°47′30″W / 53.69050°N 1.79164°W / 53.69050; -1.79164
LocationChurch Street, Rastrick, Brighouse, West Yorkshire
CountryEngland
Denomination Church of England
Methodist Church of Great Britain
History
Status Church
Founded14th century
Dedication Matthew the Apostle
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Heritage designation Grade II*
Designated3 January 1967
Style Georgian
Years built1798
Specifications
Materials Ashlar
Administration
Province York
Diocese Leeds
Deanery Brighouse and Elland
CircuitCalderdale Methodist Circuit
Clergy
Vicar(s) Michelle Petch

St Matthew's Church is a local ecumenical partnership church building situated on Church Street in Rastrick, West Yorkshire, England. The present church was built in 1798 and is a Grade II* listed building. [1] [2] It is shared by the Church of England and the Methodist Church of Great Britain. [3] [4]

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History

The parish of Rastrick dates back to the 14th century, when the first chapel was built not long after the Black Death of 1349, as a chapel of ease from Elland. Its first curate John-de-Bretton was appointed in 1363. It was a small and humble building containing "the image of Our Layde, graven in wode, the image of St Matthew unto whom it is dedicated and there stood in the street nigh to the chapel door one cross of stone, very finely graven with fretted work." The Rastrick Chapel was a free chapel in pre-Reformation England, that is to say, it was a place of worship over which the bishop had no jurisdiction. This chapel was demolished in 1602 and a new one was built in that same year. [5]

The present Georgian-style church was completed in 1797 and consecrated on 13 or 15 April 1798. [5] According to History, Directory & Gazetteer of the County of York (1822), "[the second chapel] was taken down and handsomely rebuilt about five and thirty years ago." A clock was installed around 1807, but was replaced by a new one in 1953, which was in turn replaced by the present clock from a church in the Diocese of Carlisle. The old vicarage was built in 1807 and enlarged in 1871, and the present vicarage was built in 1985. The church received its first stained glass windows in 1867. [5]

The modernisation of the church interior began in 1875 under the direction of William Swinden Barber, and a renovation and a re-decoration were carried out in 1935. In the chancel, the communion table was replaced with an altar and the inscribed tablets on the east wall were replaced with the frieze depicting "Goodly Fellowship of the prophets and Glorious Company of the Apostles". The ceiling over the chancel received a painting depicting "Christ in Majesty". Most windows have Victorian stained glass. [2] In 1907, Hugh Travis Clay (1875–1957) gifted the church a beautiful limited edition copy of the 1903 Prayer Book prepared for King Edward VII, he also dedicated the East window around 1889. On 9 November 1969, the Methodists held their first service at St Matthew's Church. A sharing agreement was signed between the Anglicans and Methodists in 1971, and since 2004, they worship together as one congregation. [5] [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "United Benefice of Rastrick: St Matthew's Church, Churchyard and Parish Centre" (PDF). leeds.anglican.org. 2020. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  2. 1 2 Historic England. "Church of St Matthew (1183810)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 22 October 2022.
  3. ↑ "Anglicans, Methodists in UK consider sharing ministers". Catholic News Agency. 29 June 2017. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
  4. ↑ "Calderdale - St. Matthew's LEP". www.calderdalemethodistcircuit.org.uk. Retrieved 3 November 2022.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "A History of The Anglican and Methodist Church of St Matthew, Rastrick version: The Church Buildings". stmatthewsrastrick.org. Retrieved 22 October 2022.
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