Churches in the neighbourhood of Haworth in the time of the Brontes II

From the interesting website: valendale


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.


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

New Jerusalem Church,  King-street 

Emanuel Swedberg,  scientist and philosopher  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.  Quaker Meeting House   Mill Street building bore the date 1709 yet in the Keighley year book for 1950 we find an entry which says it was established in 1690, 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. The first one was established in 1690 on Mill Lane and demolished in 1937, the replacement built on Skipton Road in 1936. A reader send me an email about the two different dates. Thank you very much for letting me know.    I was browsing through your blog and noticed the part about Keighley Quakers and your comments about the dates. The first date was when they started using  the first existing building on the site, the second date was the rebuilt building on the same site.   This seemed to be common practice for them, sometimes they would use material  from another building, including the date stone, which can cause confusion later.