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Friends of St. Matthew's Churchyard. Renovating the beautiful old churchyard on Wakefield Road, Lightcliffe. A sanctuary for the living as well as for the dead.
Lightcliffe, Halifax
Joined February 2013
The Lindley Band https://t.co/iN7f8pILAN will perform at St. Matthew's Church, Lightcliffe next Sunday 19th October at 3 pm. Tickets available on the door & as detailed on the poster.
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The ball, dome and lantern have now been dismantled and the stones laid aside at the top of the scaffolding. It will take a while for the replacement stones to be delivered and cut into shape before the structures can be rebuilt.
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And here is the link to the video that @friendschurches have put out explaining the work that needs to be done on the tower, starting with the dome and ball. https://t.co/ReO5jU86rA
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The cabins are in position and the area in between them and the tower is caged off. We are so grateful to @friendschurches for this restoration project. Watch their video to find out what has been and what needs to be done.
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As the poster explains this classical concert on Saturday 11th October at 7pm will include a new piece written especially to celebrate the 150th anniversary of St. Matthew's Church Lightcliffe.
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The new (only 150 yrs old) St. Matthew's bell tower. The image taken by the contractors working on the top of the now scaffolded and green netted old (250 yrs old) St. Matthew's tower. And then the 'reverse' view down Wakefield Road.
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Continuing the 150th Anniversary celebrations of the 'new' St. Matthew's Church there will be this concert on Saturday 27th September starting at 7 pm.
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Sir Thomas Freeman Firth, the founder of T.F.Firth & Sons Ltd., was buried at Upper Independent Chapel Heckmondwike but the Congregational minister who took his funeral was buried at Lightcliffe. Find out why at Reverend Matthew Stanley.pdf
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The view of the 250 year old Lightcliffe tower encased in scaffolding & green netting from the bell tower of the 'new' (just 150 year old!) church taken during one of today's tours. There will be another opportunity to see the amazing views tomorrow 2 - 4 pm.
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This poster gives more details about the tours up to the bell tower of St. Matthew's Church, Lightcliffe this coming weekend.
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The tower of St. Matthew's church will be open for tours from 2 - 4 pm on Sat 13th & Sun 14th September as part of their 150th celebrations & #HODs. Although the 250 year old Lightcliffe tower is encased in scaffolding the churchyard can still be visited.
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The scaffolding is up and the tiers are 'netted' allowing the experts to get up to the cupola to assess what exactly needs to be done to make this 250 year old tower stable and weather proof for the foreseeable future.
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The memorial inscription says that the Congregational minister Rev. James Read was pastor at Eastwood near Todmorden for eighteen years. Read how he came to be buried at Lightcliffe in the article Reverend James Read.pdf
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This morning it looked as if there was a pagoda in the churchyard as the scaffolding gets higher and higher. It will eventually go up and over the ball on the cupola.
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https://t.co/owpSKOsiQS Friends of Friendless Churches have created this lovely video to explain what they plan to do in restoration work on Lightcliffe tower.
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William Tudor Sutherland (Walker) was the eldest surviving son of Evan Charles Sutherland Walker, #AnnWalker's nephew & heir. Read what happened to him & his siblings some whom were buried or baptised in Lightcliffe, at The Sutherland Walker grandchildren.pdf
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The works on Lightcliffe tower funded by Friends of Friendless Churches has started! The scaffolders arrived this morning to start the project which could take 16 to 26 weeks.
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This memorial to #AnnWalker's brother John who died on his honeymoon in Naples - read John and Fanny Walker.pdf - eventually made it into the van. The restorers will reattach the corner piece & the memorial inscription that should be underneath it.
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This morning the memorials in the tower that are going away to be repaired & cleaned were collected by the Grantham restorers. They will reattach the corner piece of the cracked memorial to #AnnWalker's parents & siblings.
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The initials or name of Evan Charles Sutherland Walker, #AnnWalker's nephew & heir, are on all three of these Lightcliffe plaques. Read why & where to still see each plaque in the website article Evan Charles Sutherland and family.pdf
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