History of St Matthew's - The Anglican and Methodist Church of St Matthew Rastrick

The Anglican and Methodist Church of St Matthew Rastrick

Pentecost

A History

Compiled by J. Richard Kay M.A., C. Eng., M.I.C.E.,

Churchwarden 2008 - 2015

ECC Secretary 2015 -

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A History of The Anglican and Methodist Church of St Matthew, Rastrick version. δ Intro

Revised April 2022

Contents

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From the Romans to the 14th Century 1.1 Early Christianity in Britain 1.2 Christianity reaches the West Riding of Yorkshire 1.3 The Saxon Cross Base at St Matthew’s 1.4 The Norman Invasion and Domesday Book 1.5 Post Conquest Church Building and Feuding 1.6. The 13th and 14th Centuries before the the First Chapel 1.7 The Ecclesiastical Boundary Stone	1.1.1 to 1.1.6 1.2.1 to 1.2.5 1.3.1 to 1.3.4 1.4.1 to 1.4.4 1.5.1 to 1.5.3 1.6.1 to 1.6.3 1.7.1
2. The Church Buildings 2.1 The First Chapel 2.2 The Second Chapel 2.3 The Present Church Building 2.4 The Present Church Building in the 21st century	2.1.1 to 2.1.4 2.2.1 to 2.2.8 2.3 1 to 2.3.26 2.4.1 to 2.4.9
3.The Churchyard	3.1 to 3.18
4. The Vicarage	4.1
5. St Matthew’s Schools	5.1 to 5.6
6. The Parish Centre	6.1 to 6.3
7. Crowtrees Methodist Chapel	7.1 to 7.9
8. The Local Ecumenical Partnership (LEP)	8.1 to 8.16
9. List of Incumbents and Methodist Ministers	9.1 to 9.3
10. Acknowledgements	10.1 to 10.7
11. List of Appendices	11.1 to 11.2
Appendices Links - see below	App.1 to App.49

Index	Index p1 to p 6

11. List of Appendices		Page
Appendix A	Extracts from ‘A History of Brighouse, Rastrick and Hipperholme’ by J Horsfall Turner	App 1
Appendix B	Photographs of William Morton Shaw, Verger, Joseph Travis Clay and Robert Gill Irving	App 3
Appendix C	Grass-root Unity at Rastrick by Dudley Akeroyd	App 4
Appendix D	‘Long Engagement - Happy Marriage’ by John Mothersdale	App 5
Appendix E	Details of the Organ from the National Pipe Organ Register	App 6
Appendix F	Details of St Matthew’s Church Grade II* Listing	App 7
Appendix G	1. Details of Saxon Cross Listed Building 2. Details of Saxon Cross Ancient Monument 3. Details of Saxon Cross Base on Historic England website	App 8
Appendix H	Details of Ecclesiastical Boundary Stone	App 12
Appendix I	Centenary of Methodism in Rastrick 1859- 1959 (see below)	App 13
Appendix J	Details of the St Matthew's soldiers who died during the Great War 1914-18	App 14
Appendix K	Brief History of the Church of St John the Divine, Rastrick	App 22
Appendix L	Sketch of the First and Second Chapels of St Matthew, Rastrick	App 23
Appendix M	The Apse Figures on the East Wall	App 24
Appendix N	Official Handbook of the 1895 Grand Bazaar (see below)	App 26
Appendix O	Extracts from “Report on the Endowed Charities of the Parish of Halifax 1894-95” relating to Mary Law Charity and William Marsden’s Charity	App 27
Appendix P	The War Memorial and the ‘Sutcliffe’ Problem	App 28
Appendix Q	“Church War memorial” - Press cutting June 30,1922	App 31
Appendix R	Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commission to Revd Robert G. Irving of 26 July 1881	App 34
Appendix S	United Methodist Church, Crowtrees Lane Jubilee Celebrations October 18th & 19th, 1919. Photocopy of booklet	App 35
Appendix T	Gravestones in the 1798 Churchyard Re-located in 1973	App 36
Appendix U	Index of 1823 Churchyard Grave Inscriptions	App 37
Appendix V	Celebrating a Church in Rastrick for 650 Years A Service of Celebration 22nd September 2013	App 43

Appendix W. T Jeffery's Map of Yorkshire, surveyed between 1767 & 1770 App 44

Appendix X Wayside Crosses App 48

Appendix Y List of Churchwardens (in preparation) App 49

Appendix I The Centenary of the Crowtrees Methodist Church is recorded in a booklet written by the Minister Revd. Gordon Jenkins in 1959.

Appendix N The Official Handbook of the 1895 Bazaar is available for inspection in St Matthew's Church

There is an interesting Luddite story from 1812 concerning a young man named Rayner who lived near to St Matthew's Church see Ghosts and Legends of the Lower Calder Valley