Manningham St Paul Yorkshire Family History Guide
Manningham St Paul is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Yorkshire, created in 1846 from Bradford St Peter Ancient Parish; located on Church Street.
Other places in the parish include: Whetley, Four Lane Ends, and Daisy Hill.
Alternative names: Bradford St Paul
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1848
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1848
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
- Bradford St James
- Horton All Saints
- Shipley cum Heaton
- Wilsden cum Allerton
- Calverley
- Horton
- Manningham St Jude
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MANNINGHAM, a township and two chapelries in Bradford parish, W. R. Yorkshire.
The township comprises the NW suburb of Bradford; extends 2 miles N W of the town; has a station on the B. and Leeds railway; and contains three hamlets. Acres, 1,295. Real property, £41,752; of which £1,087 are in quarries, and £1,820 in mines. Pop. in 1851, 9,604; in 1861, 12,889. Houses, 2,679.
Manningham Hall, with much of the land, belongs to S.Lister, Esq. The hall was built near the end of last century, on the site of a previous Mansion, long in possession of the Listers; and is surrounded by a park. Clock House, Whetley Hill, and Bolton Royds also are chief residences; and many houses of a. superior class have been erected since 1851. Many of the inhabitants are employed in the worsted and stuff
The two chapelries are St. Jude and St. Paul, and were constituted in 1844 and 1846. Pop., in 1861, of St. Jude, 5,891; of St. Paul, 5,283. The living of St. J. is a p. curacy, of St. P. a vicarage, in the diocese of Ripon. Values, £300 and £150. Patron of St. J., the Vicar of Bradford; of St. P., J. Hollings, Esq. St. Jude’s church stands in Lumb-lane; and was erected in 1843, at a cost of about £3,000. St. Paul’s church was erected in 1847, and twice enlarged prior to 1867, a tan aggregate cost of about £6,000, all defrayed by J. Hollings, Esq.; and is a handsome edifice in the early English style.
There are a very fine Independent chapel, a Wesleyan chapel enlarged in 1865, a national school, and Wesleyan schools in the Tudor style erected in 1865.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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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