Hunslet St Cuthbert Yorkshire Family History Guide
Hunslet St Cuthbert is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1719 from a chapelry in Leeds St Peter Ancient Parish, located on Church Street.
Other places in the parish include: Hunslet Ward.
Alternative names: Leeds St Mary, Church Street, Hunfleet
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1615
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1813
Nonconformists include: Baptist, Independent/Congregational, Methodist New Connexion, Primitive Methodist, Roman Catholic, Wesleyan Methodist, and Wesleyan Methodist Reform.
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Parish History
Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895
Hunslet or Hunfleet, a populous suburb of Leeds, comprising five ecclesiastical parishes, in the W.R. Yorkshire.
The suburb is bounded on the E by the river Aire, on the W by Holbeck, lies all within Leeds borough, is intersected by the Leeds and Bradford and the North Midland railways, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office, under Leeds, and railway stations for passengers and goods (Hunslet Lane). Acreage, 1167; population, 58, 164.
The manor belonged at Domesday to the Lacys, and passed to the Gas-coignes and the Neviles. The substrata abound with coal. The surface is laid out in streets and lanes, and exhibits all the features and accompaniments of manufacturing industry.
There are woollen mills, flax and linen works, glass-works, iron foundries, chemical works, and potteries. The manufacture of engines, boilers, machines, and tools is also largely carried on. There are five churches, Particular Baptist, Wesleyan, Free, Primitive, and New Connexion Methodist, Unitarian, and Roman Catholic chapels, literary institutions, national and other schools, a workhouse, public baths, opened in 1879, and a cemetery.
St Mary’s Church was built in 1864 at a cost of £8000, occupies the site of a previous church, is in the Early English style, cruciform, with NW tower and spire.
St Jude’s Church is a modern stone building, consecrated in 1853, and contains several memorial windows and a richly-carved pulpit of Caen stone erected in 1881. It has been renovated and redecorated, and in 1887-88 was reseated.
St Peter’s, Hunslet Moor, was erected in 1866-67.
St Cuthbert’s was erected in 1883-84, and is in the Early English style; the church of St Silas, also in the Early English style, was erected in 1868-69.
The Roman Catholic chapel was built in 1860 at a cost of £1500, and is in the Pointed style, of coloured brickwork, with terra-cotta dressings.
The ecclesiastical parishes are St Mary, constituted in 1847 (population, 20, 048); St Jude, in 1851 (7801); St Peter, Hunslet Moor, in 1868 (12, 060); St Silas, in 1869 (7203); and St Cuthbert, in 1885 (4925). The livings are vicarages in the diocese of Ripon, all except St Cuthbert with residences. Gross value St Mary’s, ½£409; net value St Jude’s, £300; gross value St Peter’s,, £300; net value St Silas’, £253; gross value St Cuthbert’s, £250. Patrons of four livings, the Bishop; of St Jude’s, the Crown and Bishop alternately.
There are also two mission churches, and a parish room built in 1891.
Source: The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895 by Brabner, John Henry Fryden
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Hunslet
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: Leeds
- Hundred: Leeds Borough
- Province: York