St John the Evangelist, Bierley
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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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
Incumbents included:[4]
- 1824 J. B. Cartwright
- 1826 George Stringer Bull
- 1839 John Barber
From 1868[edit]
- 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[edit]
- ^ a b c Historic England. "Church of St John, Bradford (1314522)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
- ^ "The Richardsons and their Garden at Bierley Hall". www.bradfordhistorical.org.uk.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c Cudworth, William of Bradford (1891). Histories of Bolton and Bowling. Bradford, T. Brear and co., limited. p. 266.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Vicars Past". 13 September 2019.