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St John the Evangelist, Bierley

Coordinates: 53°46′14″N 1°43′57″W / 53.77053°N 1.73239°W / 53.77053; -1.73239
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St John the Evangelist church

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.

History

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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

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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

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Incumbents included:[4]

From 1868

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  • 1868 C. W. N. Hyne[4]
  • 1912 Harold Joseph Rose Firth[6]
  • 1923 Arthur Frederic White
  • 1938 Bernard Markham
  • 1946 Leslie Anniss Pickett
  • 1953 Reginald Stanley Landsdown
  • 1961 Kenneth Targett
  • 1964 Robert Coverdale Moorsom
  • 1971 Hubert Tours Annear
  • 1976 Geoffrey Edward Millar (1976-1991 Priest in Charge)
  • 1991 Iain Robert Lane
  • 2000 Vacancy
  • 2002 Kevin Tromans
  • 2008 David Kennedy
  • 2015 Vacancy
  • 2018 Paul Wheelhouse

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b c Cudworth, William of Bradford (1891). Histories of Bolton and Bowling. Bradford, T. Brear and co., limited. p. 266.
  5. ^ a b c d e 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.
  6. ^ "Vicars Past". 13 September 2019.
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