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All Hallows church is a large and beautiful building dating back at least eight centuries with a list of incumbents that can be traced back at least as far as 1230.

On the outside, a fine medieval church with a broach spire and on the inside, a complete Victorian Gothic interior by GF Bodley with beautifully decorated ceilings throughout the church.

Regarded as one of the finest but least known gems of ecclesiastical architecture in the country, it is a Gothic gem set in a diamond.

St Mary in the Baum, on St Mary's Gate, was founded in 1740 as a chapel of ease to minister to the people living north of the River Roch.

Built around 1850 by architect Joseph Hansom with apse chancel in an unfussy and restrained Victorian gothic style.

All Saints, Sancton dominates the landscape of our village and encompasses our history from Celtic times.

Built in the Byzantine Revival style, the dramatic church resembles the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.

Before 1868 local people had to walk to Kirkburton to go to church.

Situated in the centre of Meltham and was consecrated on St Bartholomew’s day 1651 by Bishop Henry Tilson a former Bishop of Elphin in Ireland, the church is believed to be one of a very few in England to be consecrated during the Commonwealth period.