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The Ancient Parish of BATLEY
[Transcribed information mainly from the early 1820s]
"BATLEY, a parish-town, in Agbrigg division of Agbrigg and Morley, liberty of Pontefract; 2½, miles from Dewsbury, 6¼ from Bradford, 8 S. of Leeds, 31 from York. Pop. 3,717. The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to All-Saints (see Churches for photograph), in the deanry of Pontefract, value, ~£16. 11s. 8d. p.r. £150. Patrons, Lords Wilton and Cardigan, alternately.Batley, the field of Batt or Batta is a place of great antiquity. The church was granted to the Canons of St. Oswald of Nostal, and confirmed by Henry I. Not a vestige of the original structure remains, the whole having been rebuilt about the time of Henry VI. The north chapel of the choir belongs to Howley Hall. This church is adorned with several monuments of the Savilles, Fitzwilliams, Elands, Copleys, &c. --Whitaker's Loidis and Elmete. Here is a Free School, founded in the 10th year of James I. by the Rev. William Lee, Vicar of Stapleford, Cambridgeshire, who was a native of this place, for the purpose of teaching the children to read English, and write, also to instruct them in Latin. He endowed it with an estate, which he conveyed to certain Trustees in his lifetime. This School was handsomely rebuilt in 1818, out, of monies arising from the estate."
Information on the following places in this Parish is contained on a supplementary page.
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[Description(s) edited from various 19th century sources by Colin Hinson © 2013]
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- There is a list of cemeteries (as opposed to Church Graveyards) which includes Gildersome and Morley on the Leeds City Council's website.
- Here are photographs of Cemeteries in the parish:
- The entrance to Batley Cemetery.
- The Cemetery Mortuary Chapels, Batley.
- The plan of the cemetery, Batley.
- The War Memorial, Batley.
- The transcription of the 1851 census index for Gildersome by Steve Gaunt.
- The transcription of the 1851 census index for Gildersome by Steve Gaunt.
- The transcription of the 1891 census for Gildersome by Enumeration Districts:
- Here are photographs of Churches etc. in the parish:
- A hand coloured postcard of All Saints Church, Batley circa 1910.
- All Saints Church, Batley (view 1). (The Church's website is here.)
- All Saints Church, Batley (view 2).
- The former Primitive Mount Zion Chapel, Batley, now a day nursery.
- St. Peter's Church, Gildersome.
- Internal view looking towards the altar
- Greenside Methodist Church, Gildersome. (originally Wesleyan, built in 1886)
- The Baptist Church, Gildersome, built in 1865.
- The United Reformed Church of St. Mary in the Wood, Morley.
- St. Mary's in the Wood URC Hall, Morley.
- St. Paul's Church, Morley.
- St. Peter's Church, Morley.
- The Roman Catholic Church of St. Francis of Assisi, Morley.
- The Central Methodist Church, Morley.
- St. Mary's Congregational Mission Hall, Morley.
- The Independent Zion Chapel, Morley.
- The Church of Christ, Morley.
- The National Spiritualist Church, Morley.
- The former Primitive Methodist Church, Morley.
- The former Primitive Methodist Church, Morley (another one - built in 1895).
- The former Primitive Methodist Church, Morley (yet another, also built in 1895).
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Morley.
- The former Fletcher Memorial Church, Morley. (Now converted into apartments). (With short history).
- Christ Church, Staincliffe (built 1867).
- All Saints' Church, Churwell.
- St Brigid's Roman Catholic Church, Churwell.
- Holy Trinity Church, Batley Carr.
- The former MacKenzie Methodist Church, Batley Carr. (On the corner of Town Street/Warwick Road, now demolished). (With short history).
- St. Andrew's Church, Bruntcliffe.
- Internal view looking down the nave
- The East Window
- The font
- The Methodist Church, Bruntcliffe. (built in 1895 as a Primitive Methodist Chapel).
- The Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, Bruntcliffe.
- The Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, Batley. (The Church's website is here.)
- The Central Methodist Church, Batley.
- The Salvation Army, Batley.
- The former Wesleyan Church, Batley.
- Christian Fellowship Assemblies of God, Batley.
- The Primitive Methodist Chapel, Batley.
- The former Methodist Church, Batley.
- The former Mount Zion Free United Methodist Church, Churwell, now a commercial premises.
- Churwell Methodist Church, Churwell.
- St. Saviour's Church, Brownhill.
- A transcription of Gildersome Baptist Church History
- A transcription of Staincliffe Baptist Church History
- A transcription of Batley Baptist Church History
- A transcription of Morley Baptist Church History
- A transcription of the Morley-Old Chapel Congregational Church History
- A transcription of the Morley-Rehoboth Congregational Church History
- A transcription of the Morley-Zion Chapel Congregational Church History
- Transcript of the entry for Batley in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- Transcript of the entry for Gildersome in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- Transcript of the entry for Morley in the "Collections relative to Churches and Chapels".
- The following entries in the Parish registers for Baptisms at Batley Carr have been transcribed:
- The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Parish of Batley.
- The whereabouts and dates of the Registers etc. for the Chapelry of Gildersome.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Baines's Directory and Gazetteer, Vol I, West Riding.
- Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades" in the Pigot's 1834 Directory, Yorkshire section.
- There is further information about this parish from the Pigot's 1829 Directory, Yorkshire section.
- There is further information about this parish from the Pigot's 1834 Directory, Yorkshire section.
- There is further information about this parish from the National Gazetteer 1868, Yorkshire extracts.
- There is further information about this parish from the Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, Yorkshire extracts.
- Ask for a calculation of the distance from Batley to another place.
- Gildersome.net contains an excellent detailed history of Gildersome.
- For a detailed map of this parish see this parish boundaries map.
- For a more detailed map of the parishes in the riding please see the Yorkshire parish maps page.
- For a more detailed map of the county please see the Yorkshire map page.
- Here is a map showing the wapentakes for the county.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SE233248 (Lat/Lon: 53.719095, -1.648404), Batley which are provided by:
- OpenStreetMap
- Google Maps
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
- Bing (was Multimap)
- Old Maps Online
- National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.
- The 1914-18 and 1939-1945 Cenotaph, Gildersome.
- The World War I Roll of Honour in St. Andrew's Church, Bruntcliffe.
- The World War I Memorial Plaque in St. Andrew's Church, Bruntcliffe.
- The following places are within the boundaries of this (ancient) parish, but I have no further information on them other than the Ordnance Survey Landranger Grid reference shown:
- (SE278277) Bantam Grove
- (SE238238) Clerk Green
- (SE268285) Daisy Hill
- (SE246284) Gildersome Street
- (SE259279) New Brighton
- (SE231237) Staincliffe
- (SE275265) Topcliffe
- (SE224251) White Lee
- This parish is covered (or partly covered) by the following Societies:
- A list of those paying the 1379 Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for this parish.