Bethel Independent Methodist Chapel
Shelf, Yorkshire
To the casual passerby on the busy main road between Bradford and Halifax, Bethel Chapel, may signify nothing more than a large sombre building with a very large well kept graveyard.
Originally sponsored by the Foster family of Black Dyke Mill fame and still the home of the famous Black Dyke Mill Band. The tower was rebuilt and moved from the west to north west position in 1906.
The church has many excellent stained glass windows with an elaborate East window in memory of John Foster (d1879)and his wife Ruth (d1882).
It is recorded that this parish church possesses the highest peal of bells in the British Isles.