Manningham St Jude Yorkshire Family History Guide
Manningham St Jude is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1846 from Bradford St Peter Ancient Parish, located on St Jude’s Street.
Alternative names: Bradford St Jude
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1845
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1857
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Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895
Manningham, a township within the municipal and parliamentary borough of Bradford, W.R. Yorkshire.
It comprises the NW suburb of Bradford, extends 2 miles NW of the town, has a station on the M.R., a post and money order office (T.S.O.) under Bradford, and contains three hamlets. Acreage, 1319; population, 45,051. Manningham also forms one of the wards of Bradford, with a population of 22,469.It is the chief residential quarter of the merchants and manufacturers of Bradford, and is well-built and healthy.
Lister Park, for many years the property of the Listers, was purchased at one-half its value by the corporation of Bradford in 1870 for the use of the public, and forms a favourite resort during the summer.
The inhabitants are chiefly employed in the silk, worsted, and woollen manufactures. Near Lister Park are the colossal mills erected by Lister & Co. for the manufacture of silk and velvet. The buildings, which cost about £500,000, cover an area of 14 acres, and are among the most extensive in the kingdom. The Bradford Children’s Hospital, and the Bradford Tradesmen’s Home, are situated in this township.
There are five ecclesiastical parishes viz., St Luke, St Jude, St Mark, St Mary Magdalene, and St Paul. St Luke’s Church was built in 1880, and with vicarage and schools cost £13,000. It is in the Perpendicular Gothic style. St Jude’s, built in 1843, is Norman. St Mark’s, built in 1875, is a fine Gothic church, costing with schools and vicarage £17,000. St Mary Magdalene, built in 1878, is Gothic; and St Paul’s, built in 1848, is Early English.
The livings are all vicarages in the diocese of Ripon; values respectively, £500 (gross) with residence, £400 (gross) with residence, £400 (gross) with residence, £200, and £3!a0 (net) with residence. Populations, 7567, 6078, 6339, 4191, and 10,997.
There are Congregational, Wesleyan, and Primitive Methodist chapels. The Congregational chapel was erected in 1876, and is a fine building in the Italian style; the Wesleyan chapel, opened in 1879, is a handsome building in the Gothic style, and cost, including the site, schools, and other buildings, over £13,000.
Source: The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales 1895 by Brabner, John Henry Fryden
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Administration
- County: Yorkshire
- Civil Registration District: Bradford
- Probate Court: Exchequer and Prerogative Courts of the Archbishop of York
- Diocese: Post-1835 – Ripon, Pre-1836 – York
- Rural Deanery: Pontefract
- Poor Law Union: Bradford
- Hundred: Morley
- Province: York