Image: Tower of Lightcliffe Old Church, Wakefield Road, Lightcliffe, Hipperholme - geograph.org.uk - 187855

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Description: Tower of the former St Matthew's parish church, Lightcliffe, West Yorkshire. The church was first built in 1529 as St Matthew's Chapel, a chapel of ease in Halifax parish. Ir became known as Eastfield Chapel. It was suppressed about 1547 but restored in 1598. It was made a parish church in 1749. It was rebuilt in 1775 to designs by the architect was William Mallinson of Halifax. It was replaced in 1875 by a newer St Matthew's parish church further up Wakefield Road. All of the old church except the tower was demolished in 1969. In the belfry is a stone taken from an earlier church on this site, inscribed: Deo et Sancto Mattaeo Apostolo Evangelistae Martyri Sacra A. O. DCXXIX.
Title: Tower of Lightcliffe Old Church, Wakefield Road, Lightcliffe, Hipperholme - geograph.org.uk - 187855
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