St John the Evangelist, Bierley

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.

St John the Evangelist church

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]

  • 1767–c.1772 James Stillingfleet (1741–1826)[5]
  • c.1772–c.1781 M. Ollerenshaw[5]
  • From 1781, a number of chaplains (J. West and D. West, Dr. Bailey and his brother, William Wood of Tingley)[5]
  • 1787–c.1799 Thomas Wade[5]
  • 1799–1823 a number of chaplains (Balmforth, Booth, Gill, Morgan, Heslop, Grainger, Hollist, Barmby, Parkin, Johnson, Weddell, Clarkson and Beaumont).[5]

1824–1867

Incumbents included:[4]

From 1868
  • 1868 C. W. N. Hyne[4]

Notes
  1. 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. Cudworth, William of Bradford (1891). Histories of Bolton and Bowling. Bradford, T. Brear and co., limited. p. 266.
  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.

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