JOHN WILLIAM LUPTON - Organ Builder: He made the organ at St. Paul’s Church, Keighley, other organs built by him being those at Slack Lane Baptist Church, near Keighley (a large 3- manual instrument with 36 stops); West Lane Primitive Methodist Chapel, Keighley ( 2-manual, 20 Stops); Hermit Hole Wesleyan Chapel, Keighley (2-manual , 18 stops)

Harrison & Harrison made many of the organs for the churches in Keighley

All Saints (1902-1909) Photo keighley.plus.com
Church of the Nazarene, oakworth Rd Photo keighley.plus.com
Congregational Church of Keighley. maggieblanck.com
Holy Trinity Church, Lawkholme (1881)    thisisbradford.co.uk   churchplansonline.org
Mission Church, Highfield (1878-1879)
St. Andrew (1849)    churchplansonline.org
St. John the Evangelist, Ingrow (1840-1843) churchplansonline.org
St. Mary the Virgin, Eastwood (1855) churchplansonline.org
St Matthew, Braithwaite
St Michael Bracken Bank
St Paul, Parkwood
St. Peter (1879-1881)

War Memorial Windows from Temple Street Methodist Chapel keighleysharedchurch.org.uk
Churches in the upper Worth Valley clara.net/ron.hoggarth

Men of Worth website commemorates the men and women of Keighley and the Worth Valley who served our country in times of war. Also contains War Memorials from Keighley and the surrounding area.

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BAPTIST CHURCH, KEIGHLEY Click here

"spiritualism.—On Whit Sunday, a camp meeting was held on Haworth Moor, by the Christian Spiritualists of Haworth, Keighley, and the surrounding district. The day being fine, a large number of persons assembled to hear the principles of spiritualism ably expounded by Mr. B. Morrell, of Keighley; Mr. A. Shackleton, of Haworth; and Mr. Naylor, of Keighley. A select party of musicians and singers added interest to the proceedings on the occasion." —Keighley and Skipton Mercury.

1852 Sunday School treat
 

Exact location to find:
1863 The foundation-stone of a Baptist chapel, to be erected near to Skipton-road, Keighley, has been laid. Messrs. Paull & Ayliffe, of Manchester, are the architects. The style is Byzantine, freely treated. Accommodation will be provided for 800. There will be side and end galleries, and behind the pulpit a recess for organ and choir. Beneath the organ floor two vestries will be placed. The basement floor will be I t feet high, and will contain a school-room, a lecture room capable of holding 150 persons, a vestry for the minister, a tea-room, and four class-rooms. The contract for the whole of the building has been taken by Messrs. Gibson & Maude, of Keighley, for 2,5792. 4s., exclusive of the ironwork, which will be supplied by Messrs. Clapham.

Albert Street Baptist Church
The photograph on top left shows the new Sunday School which opened 1914 which contained a central hall, a primary department, 14 classrooms and accommodation for 500 scholars, a kitchen, lavatories and a Christian Endeavour room. February 14, 1914, Mr. T H Haggas laid a memorial stone for the new Albert Street Baptist Sunday School. He was the great-grandson of John Town, founder of Keighley's original Baptist chapel.

NOTICE is hereby given, that a separate building, named the Baptist Chapel, situate in Albert-street, Keighley, in the parish of Keighley, in the county of York, in the district of Keighley, being a building certified according to law as a place of litigious worship, was, on the 7th day of October, 1865, duly registered for solemnizing marriages therein, pursuant to the Act of 6th and 7th Wm. IV., cap. 85, being substituted for the building known as Bethel Baptist Chapel, situate at Baptist-square, Keighley, in the parish of Keighley, in the county of York aforesaid, cancelled. Witness my hand this 21st day of October, 1865 'Geo. Spencer, Superintendent Registrar.

Alice Street Primitive Methodist Church Central Hall

NOTICE is hereby given, that a separate building, named Primitive Methodist Chapel, situate at Alice Street, Keighley, in the parish of Keighley, in the county of York, in the district of Keighley, being a building certified  according to law as a place of religious worship, was, on t h e 4th day of November, 1893, duly registered for solemnizing marriages therein, pursuant to the Act of 6th and 7th Wm. 4, cap. 85; being substituted for the Primitive Methodist Chapel, Queen Street, Keighley, now disused;— Witness my hand this 6th day of November, 1893. GEORGE E. SPENCER, Superintendent Registrar.

All Saints Church Highfield
 
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Apostolic Church Apsley Street

Assemblies of God Pentecostal Church, Kensington Street

Beechcliffe (Wesleyan) Church
Used to stand where 1-2 Badgers Drift is now.  Formerly the site of Beechcliffe Methodist Church from c.1890 until approximately 1995 when the property was demolished due to its destruction from arson attack. The last service at Beechcliffe Methodist Chapel was on 29th Aug 1993.

*Bethel Baptist Chapel, (West Turkey Street/Burlington Street) Baptist Square. Chapel, school House and grave yard.

There was a burial ground attached, the remains being removed to Utley.  Marriage On Tuesday, Dec. 24th, 1844, Mr. John Rhodes and Miss Emma Rushworth were married at the Baptist Chapel, Keighley, by Mr. W. J. Stuart, minister. This being the first marriage here, the bridal pair were presented with a handsome Bible, and a copy of Watts and the New Selection bound together. PRINTED & PUBLISHED BY J. HEATON. 1861 the census tells us that William Murgatroyd a native of Keighley was the Minister.  Closed and become a lodging house.

Bocking Wesleyan Chapel
built at the end of the 1870s

Bracken Bank Baptist Church
Opened 1957 closed before 1971
The Registrar General, being satisfied that BRACKEN BANK BAPTIST CHURCH, Keighley in the registration district of Worth Valley in the county of York West Riding, is no longer used as a place of worship by the congregation on whose behalf it was on 27th February 1959 registered for marriages in accordance with the Marriage Acts, 1949 to 1959 has cancelled the registration.—Dated 12th November 1970.  J Raby, Superintendent Registrar.

Braithwaite (Primitive Methodist) Chapel
    
Braithwaite School Church. Foundation stone laid on Shrove Tuesday 1858 by the Rev.William BUSFEILD M.A. Rector of Keighley. Opened 1859. Cost £950. New organ by Murgatroyd, Driver & Lupton of Keighley. Inaugurated 24Feb1879. Cost about £150.

Cavendish Street Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School 

Cavendish Street United Methodist Free Church 

Opened in 1868 demolished 1952. Its final services were held in 1937.

Extended in 1874

Nicknamed the "Cock Chapel" in honour of its weathercock, 125ft up  the highest spire in Keighley. Could seat 1,000 worshippers. During Second World War it had been the well-known headquarters of the Keighley Squadron of the Air Training Corps.

 

 

 

THE LONDON GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 12, 1869. 
NOTICE is hereby given, that a separate building, named the United Methodist Free Church, situate at Cavendish-street, in Keighley, in the parish of Keighley, in the county of York, in the district of Keighley, being a building certified according to law as a place of religious worship, was, on the 17th day of November, 1868, duly registered for solemnizing marriages therein, pursuant to the Act of 6th and 7th  Wm. IV., cap. 85, being substituted for the building known as the United Methodist Free Church Chapel, at Sun-street, Keighley aforesaid, now, disused. Witness my hand this 8th of February, 1869. Geo. Spencer, Superintendent Registrar.

The photo's below provided by Allan Smith.

Church of the Nazarene, Oakworth Rd 

Cross Roads Primitive Methodist Chapel
Sited just a few yards further up the Keighley Road form the Bocking Wesleyan Chapel.

Democratic Sunday School, Working Men's Hall, Sun Street. Est before 1839. Denomination None. Also known as The Working Men's Hall Sunday School. This newspaper clipping from 1841 refers to Thwaites Democratic Sunday School. 


Devonshire Park Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Vernon St off Spring Gardens Lane


Devonshire Street Congregational Church demolished

Sir Swire Smith died of congestion of the lungs on 16 March 1918 in a London nursing home after a minor operation on his prostate gland, at the age of 76.  His funeral took place at Devonshire Street Congregational Church in Keighley four days later.

Devonshire Street New Church

The society's first place of worship in a house in Beckside which was then situated in green fields. The most well known minister of Keighley New Church was the Rev. Joseph Wright who was ordained as the third minister of the New Church in 1790 - the other two being Hindmarsh and Samuel Smith. who had also served in the Great Haworth. Round. The New Church opened its first Sunday school in 1791. In 1805 the society built its first chapel in King Street, on the 1852 map we see it with a grave yard and titled "The Lords Church".  The premises in Devonshire Street were opened in 1891.

Eastwood Chapel: Dalton Lane. Methodist Church and School. 

Exley Head Wesleyan Methodist Church abt 1801. Photo's by Allan Smith  
Opened 1857. Accommodates 250 worshipers. Cost £375.
  

Fell Lane Methodist Church
From 'Keighley Past & Present' by William KEIGHLEY. Plans drawn by a Mr. James RUSHWORTH. Foundation stone laid 01 Sep 1877 by Miss Kate PICKLES & Mr. A. ALMOND. Opened 09 Apr 1877 by the Rev. Robert MORTON of Leeds. Cost £850 including furniture.    

Fell Lane Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Opened in 1878 to accommodate 250, closed 1990. Now a dwelling.
       

Greengate Sunday School.

The 1894 map shows a Sunday School at the South Street end of Greengate on the right of the elbow just after Sunderland Street. In the photo we can just see it in the middle distance. We are not sure what the event is, but we think it may be a Whit Walk, we feel sure that the event was connected to the Sunday School. We believe that it might  well have been a Primitive Methodist Sunday School for we have read that Marriner of Greengate helped support such a Sunday School that was not far from his works. It would seem that the life of this school was short and that the building was taken into use by Greengate Mill, now demolished.

Hainworth Wesleyan Methodist Chapel built 1847
Taken from Minutes of the Committee of Council on Education: Volume 2: This is at the little hamlet of Hainworth, two miles up a packhorse route, along; the moors from Keighley towards Halifax, and is in circumstances somewhat similar to the preceding, being used only for a chapel and Sunday-school. It is conveyed to trustees expressly for chapel purposes, with a proviso that it may also be used for a day-school, under the direction of the trustees and the superintendent preacher, unless they should think well to remove the school to some other place. It has never, however, from the first been opened for the purposes of a day-school; and other day-schools having arisen in neighbouring localities, it is not now contemplated to open it for them. The last service at Hainworth Chapel was on 10th April 1977.

Heber Street Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

Heber Street Spiritualists Society
1853 David Richmond (1816 – 1891) became a Spiritualist whilst living in America and upon his return to his native town of Darlington, England in 1853, tried unsuccessfully to open a Spiritualist church. He moved to Keighley and there established the first Spiritualist church in England. They took over Heber Street Wesleyan School in 1895 which had been built in 1872. Previous to moving into Heber Street they had held their meetings in Schools, working men's halls and the Lyceum Buildings, East Parade which had been built by David Weatherhead, a former Chartist agitator. A wealthy grocer,  Provision Merchant and printer who had recently lost a son, Weatherhead bankrolled a new publication The Yorkshire Spiritual Telegraph.

Hermit Hole Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

Photo's and information provided by Allan Smith The corner stone was laid on Shrove Tuesday, 25th Feb1873 by William CLOUGH, and the last service was held by the Rev. F. Haigh JOWETT on 29th Jan1956 Anniversary Leaflet 1924 Page 1 Page 2

Taken from the Minute Book of Hermit Hole Methodist Chapel, of which Sir John Clough was a Trustee, the item dated 28th Feb 1914 and mentions a Sunday School and Chapel, sadly we do not know which one. Names mentioned are: Ellis Ratcliffe, John Ernshaw and William Joy. The last part makes reference to Sir John Clough receiving his Knighthood from King George.

The Memorial Windows at Hermit Hole Methodist Church were a bequest in the Will of Hebden Wright, retired manufacturer, who died at 'The Whins, Hermit Hole on 23 July 1914. He left "a sum not exceeding £2000" to provide four stained glass windows "to be placed in the said church", one each in memory of his sister, Mary, his two brothers James and John, and himself.

Holy Trinity Lawkholme (1881 - 1974)
      1846
Building land donated by the Duke of Devonshire in 1878 and the church opened in 1882, demolished in 1972 thisisbradford.co.uk   churchplansonline.org
13th Nov 1888 The welcoming of the new vicar at Holy Trinity Church, Lawkholme, The Rev A.WILLIAMS 
Down Memory Lane From the Telegraph & Argus, 2003.
Members of Holy Trinity Church, Lawkholme, pose informally at one of their between-the-wars Sunday School festivals. Appropriately, these were held on the weekend of Trinity Sunday, usually in June. On the Saturday afternoon they would walk in procession round the district, stopping to sing hymns at various points en route - in 1930, for example, at Bradford Street, Marlborough Street, Victoria Park gates, Parson Street, Eric Street and East Avenue. Usually they were accompanied and led by a band, though in 1931 their newly-formed troop of Wolf Cubs headed their procession, the Mothers' Union bringing up the rear. After tea in the Sunday School, sports and games were held at Threaproyd or at the cricket or rugby field. One novelty in 1930 was a race for mothers, the winner of which got a cake.

Ingrow United Reformed

Ingrow Congregational Mission
A Separate Building, duly certified for religious worship, named CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, situated at Ingrow, in the civil parish of Keighley, in tine county of York, West Riding, in Keighley registration district, was on the 15th day of March, 1915, registered for solemnizing marriages therein, pursuant to 6th and 7th Wm. IV, c. 85.— Dated the 17th, March, 1915. 027 J. N. CLARKSON, Superintendent Registrar.

Keighley Parish Church

This newspaper cutting from 1893 is interesting in that there was clearly some kind of nonsense over the church clock, we are seeking an earlier report that might shed some light on the proceeding events. Something had caused the Church wardens to stop the church clock from telling the time to the town.

Before 1846	Rectory before 1899	Rectory after 1899	inside the church

Knowle Park Congregational Mission and would later become in 1972 Knowle Park United Reformed Church and now called Trinity Church


Laycock Wesleyan Methodist Chapel 
Taken from William KEIGHLEY's 'Keighley Past & Present'. Laycock Wesleyan Chapel built in 1857. Accommodates over 400 worshipers. Cost about £700. 
Laycock Wesleyan day and Sunday School opened 12May1874 by the Rev. J. CLULOW of London. 286 Scholars. Cost about £1.500.

Lees Methodist Church

Liberty Pentecostal Ministry Sunderland Street

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Long Lee Wesleyan Methodist Chapel


Lower Bogthorn (Primitive Methodist) Chapel

Lund Park Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
   

Marlborough Street Congregational Misson Church
A daughter church of Devonshire Street, built at the junction of Marlborough Street and Brown Street. 
The first service was held on 16th August 1883 and the last service held on 30th April 1961. Prayer meetings were started in the mid 1870's at 50 Marlborough Street.  An initiative of Mr. Ramsden, a draper in Low Street. It was around 1882 that the congregation came to the attention of Sir John Brigg, with his support and backing a church was built.

New Jerusalem Church,  King-street 

Emanuel Swedberg,  scientist and philosopher newchurchissues.org Formed the first New Jerusalem Society in Yorkshire. The temple was built in 1805 in King Street adjoining Acers Mill, owned by Barry Smith, who was a member.   See entry for The Lords Church NOTICE is hereby given, that a separate building, named New Jerusalem Church, situated at King Street, Keighley, in the parish of Keighley, in the county of York, in the district of Keighley, being a building certified according to law as a place of religious worship, was, on the 13th day of January, 1870, duly registered for solemnizing marriages therein, pursuant to the Act of 6th and 7th Wm. IV., cap. 85. Witness my hand this 21st of January, 1870. Geo. Spencer, Superintendent Registrar.

Oakworth Road Primitive Methodist Chapel, Now Church of Nazarene 

Oakworth Methodist Church

Park Lane Primitive Methodist Chapel


Parkwood (Wesleyan) Chapel Park Lane (Primitive Methodist) Chapel

Primitive Methodist Chapel, Queen-street
Keighley Union. NOTICE is hereby given, that a separate building, named Primitive Methodist Chapel, situated at Queen-street, in Keighley, in the parish of Keighley, in the county of York, being a building certified according, to law as a place of religious worship, was on the 15th day of February, 1861, duly registered for solemnizing marriages therein, pursuant to the Act of the 6th and 7th Wm. IV., cap. 35. Witness my hand this 16th day of February, 1861. George Spencer, Superintendent Registrar.

Providence Chapel, South Street
1829

1835
  

Quaker Meeting House, Mill Street. The building bore the date 1709, demolished in 1938. The Upper green Congregational Chapel shared the same yard was not demolished in the clearance. The Society of Friends moved into their Skipton Road meeting house in 1936. Briggs opened a grave yard for friends on land just off North Dean Road which still exists. There used to be a friends burial ground near the Independent Chapel, the 1852 shows their grave yard to be a separate entity. 


Queen Street (Primitive Methodist) Chapel
From  Keighley, past and present: As a proof of the progress of this body of Christians we may add that they afterwards built a chapel in Sun Street, which proving too small, they erected the present handsome and commodious chapel in Queen Street, where divine service is now performed. The Wesleyan Association Methodists, who seceded from the 'Old Body' in 1828, in consequence of an organ dispute at Leeds, built a chapel in Sun Street, in which they now worship. They have very recently united with the Wesleyan Reformers, under the name of the "United Methodist Free Churches."

Salvation Army, Cook Lane

General Booth 1882 Man elopes with married woman and takes money belonging to the Salvation Army 1883 Salvation Army attacked in 1884

South Street (Primitive Methodist) Chapel

Spencer Street Congregational


St Anne's Roman Catholic
     
From  Keighley, past and present: The Roman Catholics hired a room for service in South-street, in 1832; and about the year 1836 built their present chapel. We are not aware that they have made any converts among the English, but as there are some hundreds of resident Irish they muster a goodly congregation on the Sabbath day.
The architect of St. Annes Church was none other than Augustus Welby Northmore PUGIN, who would later find fame as architect of the interior of the Palace of Westminster, and the Clock Tower thereof.

St Barnabas, Long Lee

December 1900, fire broke out at the school church, due to the bad access even though the fire brigade were called there was little they could do. Erected in 1885 as a second mission church to St Mary's Eastwood, and constructed of wood and iron. Two week prior part of the permanent stone church built close by and open for school propose. The brigade received the alarm about 10.15pm. The wind had fanned the flames and there was little remaining by the time they arrived. The accommodation was for around 120 worshipers.

St. Johns Ingrow

St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
   St.Joseph's in Queens Road was built in the Norman style in 1934 to the designs of Godfrey CLARKE.

St Marks Utley

St Mary's The Virgin, Worth Village (Eastwood) Built 1855. churchplansonline.org  Ford garage pretty well takes up the area that the Church, School and vicarage once stood.
When built the church and school stood in large grounds surrounded by trees and greenery.
June 25 1893 The Rev. Joseph PRINCE curate of St Mary's, Eastwood, Keighley, he hanged himself. 
Rev Heinz Arnold  of Jewish origin who escaped to England during the second World War. He was Curate 1945 to 1948.

Newspaper cutting from 1855

 
Taken from the Keighley News: Diocese spokesman John Hansen said Mr. Arnold was savagely beaten by the SS — Hitler’s most ruthless troops — and left for dead. The Rev Heinz Arnold was among pastors of Jewish origin who escaped to England during the Second World War. Mr. Hansen said: “He crawled home on his hands and knees and was then taken to a concentration camp. “Somehow he was freed and got to England and with the help of Bishop Bell, of Chichester, he trained for the Church of England priesthood.” Mr. Arnold became curate of St Mary the Virgin Church, Eastwood, from 1945 to 1948.

St Matthew’s Church Braithwaite built in 1854 now known as Keighley New Church

St. Michael Bracken Bank 1964 - 1981

St. Peters, Halifax Road
24th March 1889 The Bishop of Penrith preaches at St. Peter's Church, Keighley

South Street Primitive Methodist
From  Keighley, past and present: That section of the Methodist body called the 'New Connexion,' or 'Kilhamites,' built a chapel, and seemed to prosper in Keighley for a number of years. But owing to the imprudence of some of its trustees and leading members, the society gradually fell away until they were unable to support a minister and maintain the cause; they then sold the chapel, and sought among other congregations of the town for such spiritual fellowship and worship as they had hitherto enjoyed together. This building, which stands in South-street, was lately used as a coachmaker's shop, and it is now converted into shops and cottages.

Spiritualist Church, Heber Street
1853 David Richmond (1816 – 1891) became a Spiritualist whilst living in America and upon his return to his native town of Darlington, England in 1853, tried unsuccessfully to open a Spiritualist church. He moved to Keighley and there established the first Spiritualist church in England. They took over Heber Street Wesleyan School in 1895 which had been built in 1872. Previous to moving into Heber Street they had held their meetings in Schools, working men's halls and the Lyceum Buildings, East Parade which had been built by David Weatherhead, a former Chartist agitator. A wealthy grocer,  Provision Merchant and printer who had recently lost a son, Weatherhead bankrolled a new publication The Yorkshire Spiritual Telegraph..

St Paul's Church Parkwood 1884 - 1961
Plans and designs by Mr. J.B Bailey, North- street, Keighley

*Sun Street Wesleyan  Methodist Chapel 

1852

THE LONDON GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 12, 1869. 
NOTICE is hereby given, that a separate building, named the United Methodist Free Church, situate at Cavendish-street, in Keighley, in the parish of Keighley, in the county of York, in the district of Keighley, being a building certified according to law as a place of religious worship, was, on the 17th day of November, 1868, duly registered for solemnizing marriages therein, pursuant to the Act of 6th and 7th  Wm. IV., cap. 85, being substituted for the building known as the United Methodist Free Church Chapel, at Sun-street, Keighley aforesaid, now, disused. Witness my hand this 8th of February, 1869. Geo. Spencer, Superintendent Registrar.

Swedenborgian kings Street
   
Built 1805 and would later be used as a mill warehouse. James Hindmarsh's (son of James Hindmarsh, a Methodist minister) daughter married William Illingworth founder of Grove Mills at Ingrow

Temple Street Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

First church built 1754 and replaced 1846 - 2002 John Greenwood of Cabbage House was a keen Methodist, he paid from his own pocket the fee's of a minister for two years. A man who resided in Temple Street objected to the Methodist and in an attempt to stop  people using Temple Street to get to the church, he put up a pair of strong gates and padlocked them. Greenwood on hearing this sent a message to the man saying if they were not removed immediately he would send two of his strongest horses and he would have the gates pulled down, the gates were removed. This incident must have occurred before 1807 as this is the year John Greenwood died.

From Keighley Past and present: "The foundation-stone of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Keighley, was laid on Monday, the 28th day of July, in the ninth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and in the year of our Lord, 1845, by Lodge Calvert of Bradford, Gent. "This new chapel stands upon the site of the first Methodist Chapel erected in Keighley, which was built in 1754 rebuilt, 1777; and upon the erection of Eden Chapel in 1810, was converted into a Sunday School. 
Its Trustees are—: Mr. Lodge Calvert, Mr. Thomas Waterhouse, Mr. Samuel Smith, Thomas Pearson, Thomas Midgley, John Holmes, Nathan Holmes, John Craven, Jonas Sugden, John Laycock, William Thomas, Nathaniel Walbank. 
"The members of the building committee are Mr. Samuel B. Clapham, Mr. Edmund Laycock, Mr. William Lund and the Town Trustees. "This stone was laid in the 106th year of the existence of Wesleyan Methodism, and the 103rd year of its introduction into Keighley. The Rev. Jabez Bunting, D. D., being the President, and the Rev. Bobert Newton, D.D., the Secretary of the Conference. 
"The Sabbath School, which was re-established in 1807, and is well arranged, contains 711 children, and is conducted gratuitously by two presidents, eight superintendents and 106 teachers. The Day School, conducted on the Glasgow system by one master and two mistresses, instructs upwards of 250 children. "Lodge Calvert of Bradford, Gent, (being the only trustee living on the enlargement of the first erection), officiated in laying the stone, which was preceded by an affecting prayer from the Rev. J. Hanson of Haworth, and followed by an address from the Rev. J. Skidmore, who after having read the inscriptions on the plates, proceeded to comment on the early days of Methodism in Keighley, and traced its infant commencement from three members, who constituted the society here in 1742, and which by regular steps have increased to 1778 in 103 years. 
The Rev. J. Everett of York and the Rev. J. Rayner also addressed the assembly at some length, on the gratifying fact that Methodism instead of retrograding, as some parties had gratuitously asserted, was increasing in numbers, which was a novel sign of going backwards." This circuit has been comparatively free from the great defections which have recently signalized the history of Methodism; it now numbers about 2000 members, 40 local preachers and 100 class meetings; in fact it is one of the most prosperous circuits in the kingdom".

*The Lords Church, King Street. Built 1805. Church and grave yard.
The society's first place of worship in a house in Beckside which was then situated in green fields. The most well known minister of Keighley New Church was the Rev. Joseph Wright who was ordained as the third minister of the New Church in 1790 - the other two being Hindmarsh and Samuel Smith. who had also served in the Great Haworth. Round. The New Church opened its first Sunday school in 1791. In 1805 the society built its first chapel in King Street (See entry for New Jerusalem Church).  The premises in Devonshire Street were opened in 1891.

Thwaites Democratic Sunday School. The first mention we have seen of this Sunday school was in this news paper report from 1841, we were aware of a Democratic Sunday School in Keighley on Sun Street. 

Upper Green Congregational Chapel
* Independent Chapel, Upper Green, Old Bridge Street. Chapel, School House and grave yard  was also known as The Congregational Church of Keighley. maggieblanck.com
26th Feb 1889 The reopening of Upper Green Congregational Chapel, after undergoing considerable structural alterations
    1835

Utley Congregational Chapel
The first name on the roll of members of the Utley congregation was that of Miss Ann Clapham. 
 

Utley United Reformed Church

Utley Wesleyan Chapel
  

Victoria Park Wesleyan Methodist Chapel 1863-1975
Started out being called Eastwood Chapel having relocated in 1891 and around 1899 changed it's name to Victoria Park Methodist. Located at the junction of Marlborough Street and Bradford Road, backing onto Spruce Street, the Sunday School was next door, going down Marlborough Street and backing onto Austin Street, Eastwood School was next door to this. 

Wesley Place (Wesleyan) Chapel Demolished
Ingrow’s first Wesleyan Chapel  was built  at Hermit Hole in 1840 at the bottom of Ingram Street, and opened in October 1840 at a cost of £440. 
It was built to accommodate the growing number of scholars at the White House, which stood in what would later become part of the grounds at 'The Whins'. The White House was demolished in 1926 when Whinswood Park was laid out. 
After the move to Paper Mill Bridge from Ingram Street, the building was sold for £325-10s on 04 April 1865 to John & James WRIGHT, who used it as a weaving shed until 1915.

Wesley Place Methodist Church
Photo's and additional information provided by Allan Smith

First church showing the crack

It was opened on Friday 15 April 1864 and cost £2,312. In May 1865, the foundations were undermined during the cutting of Ingrow Tunnel on the Worth Valley Railway. The front of the chapel moved away from the rest of the building, and for safety's sake, the place was closed in the following June. Bradford architect, Henry Francis LOCKWOOD, whose office would later design the new Mechanics Institute in Keighley, examined the premises and announced that no satisfactory repairs would put it in order.

It must be taken down and moved back 50 feet. And so it was. 

The foundation stone of the rebuilt chapel was laid by Miss Ann CLOUGH on 02 May 1867, and opened on Friday 29 November of the same year, having cost £2,999-17s. After a four year struggle, the Trustees were awarded £1,980 by the Midland Railway Company. The chapel succumbed to dry rot, and was demolished during the 1950s. It is interesting to note that Isaac HOLDEN didn't get asked to lay the foundation stone again. Trouble was, he was one of the Midland Railway lot who had caused all the trouble, and it was he who had cut the first sod for the railway on Shrove Tuesday 1864. We have heard that his purchase and renovation of 'Meadowfield', and the giving of it to be used as a manse, was seen by some to be an act of atonement.

The chapel is now housed within what was originally the Sunday school building. Wesley Place Methodist Church

West Lane Primitive Methodist Church

In it's day it was possible to enter from either West lane or Devonshire Street West, which used to be called Laycock Road. The Sunday School was next door replacing the building that was used sitting behind the church.

Worth Village Primitive Methodist Chapel

The corner stone was laid in 1874 by Mrs. B Emmott Situated on Thwaites Lane between Oastler street and Greenwood Street.

Worth Village Thwaites Baptist Chapel Corner of Fruit Street and Dalton Lane

Photo left taken 15th April 1981 by Allan Smith

Worth Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Dalton Lane end of Timber St

Photo on right provided by Allan Smith  Opened in 1874 and cost £810

1873 (Below)     
 

1874 (below)