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St Matthew's Church, Rastrick

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John-de-Bretton was appointed in 1363. It was a small and humble building containing "the image of Our Layde, graven in wode, the image of St Matthew unto whom it is dedicated and there stood in the street nigh to the chapel door one cross of stone, very finely graven with fretted work." The Rastrick
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England, that is to say, it was a place of worship over which the bishop had no jurisdiction. This chapel was demolished in 1602 and a new one was built in that same year.
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was built in 1807 and enlarged in 1871, and the present vicarage was built in 1985. The church received its first stained glass windows in 1867.
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depicting "Goodly Fellowship of the prophets and Glorious Company of the Apostles". The ceiling over the chancel received a painting depicting "
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The parish of Rastrick dates back to the 14th century, when the first chapel was built not long after the
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church was completed in 1797 and consecrated on 13 or 15 April 1798. According to
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Medieval base of a Norman high cross in St Matthew's churchyard, drawing, 1893
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Medieval base of a Norman high cross in St Matthew's churchyard, drawing, 1893
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The modernisation of the church interior began in 1875 under the direction of
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and the inscribed tablets on the east wall were replaced with the
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53°41′26″N 1°47′30″W / 53.69050°N 1.79164°W / 53.69050; -1.79164
Rastrick
Brighouse
West Yorkshire
Denomination
Church of England
Methodist Church of Great Britain
Church
Dedication
Matthew the Apostle
Grade II*
Style
Georgian
Materials
Ashlar
Province
York
Diocese
Leeds
Deanery
Brighouse and Elland
Methodist Circuit
Vicar(s)
local ecumenical partnership
Rastrick
West Yorkshire
Grade II* listed building
Church of England
Methodist Church of Great Britain

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