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  • Collection: Hebden Bridge Local History Society

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St. Thomas à Beckett, Heptonstall Old Church.
Probably built around 1250-1260.
1440 Money left for the making of bells.
1572 The organ was dismantled and stowed in different places because organs were forbidden to be played.
1617 North and South…

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The church in a state of dereliction but not yet stripped by pillaging. Ref: 155 Lit & Sci

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Heptonstall, churches and village. Towards the left of the picture is the church hall.

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It was decided to open a subscription list for a new church following extensive storm damage to the old church in 1847. The foundation stone for the new church was laid on 15th May, 1850; the completed church being consecrated on 26th October, 1854,…

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Seen from the churchyard. The building on the right of the arch was once the Bull Inn and later housed the Heptonstall Working Men's Club until 1972.

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Looking from the churchyard towards Towngate, c 1930.

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The ornate stone on New House, Northgate, is inscribed 1736, with the initials of the builders H.E.F. - Henry and Elizabeth Foster. It was thought to be a Quaker house, and this was believed by the Quakers of Washington D.C. in America, when in 1970…
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