It opened on 29th September 1773.
Rev John Taylor was ordained the next day and became Minister.
The present chapel was built in 1823.
It was enlarged in 1853.
See
General Baptist Chapel, Queensbury Graveyard and
Queenshead
Around 1773, a group of Baptists with Dan Taylor and John Taylor met at the house of Mr Hutchinson.
They met at Queensbury and held services in Halifax.
They rented a room in Gaol Lane where
They bought land in Haley Hill for a new Church.
It opened on 3rd September 1777.
In 1782, the 30 members formed a separate Church and invited Dan Taylor from Birchcliffe to their Haley Hill church.
In his Report of 1850, William Ranger mentioned the health hazards
at the Baptist Burial Ground at Haley Hill.
In 1854, it was decided to move to
and North Parade Baptist Church was opened.
See
Joseph Nicholson
Some of the monumental inscriptions in the graveyard are shown in the
CD entitled
Halifax Monumental Inscriptions #4
In 1884, Rev Edgar Ball preached his first sermon at the
Church
See
Rishworth School Chapel and
Goat House, Rishworth
The organ by Laycock & Bannister was moved here from St
Joseph's Church, Paisley.
Details can be found in the National Pipe Organ Register.
In August 1936, the Ministry of Transport issued a compulsory
purchase order on the Church in order to build extensions to the
Electricity Works
Recorded around 1915, when
Gilbert Mallison was recorded on the Roll of Honour at
Gospel Hall, Lister Lane
Closed in 19??
See
Rev Ray Biddiss
Built in ???? on the site of an earlier factory
See
Epitaphs,
Graves and
War Memorials
Both the original buildings are still retained [2009].
In June 2009, it was announced that a new Methodist church is to be
built on the site of Greetland Methodist Church
The Greetland Wesley Church opened in 1779.
Wesley preached here on several occasions [1781, 1784, 1786].
In 1898, an organ by Forster & Andrews of Hull was installed.
Details can be found in the National Pipe Organ Register.
Question:
Does anyone know where the organ is now?
Was it installed in the new Church of 1974?
The Minister's Manse was attached to the Church.
In 1973, dry rot was discovered in the building and it was demolished.
A new Church was built on the site.
The new church opened in 1974.
In 2002, the church merged with Lindwell Primitive Methodist Church, Greetland to become Greetland & Lindwell Methodist Church.
Both buildings are still retained [2009].
A new building – known as Cross Hills Methodist Church, Greetland – was constructed [2013/2014].
See
Greetland Methodist Church War Memorial and
Greetland Methodist Church Graveyard
When the new Cross Hills Methodist Church, Greetland was built
[2013], much of the Graveyard was sold for housing.
The remains were exhumed and reburied in a grave at Elland Cemetery
Some of the monumental inscriptions in the graveyard are shown in the
CD entitled
Halifax Monumental Inscriptions #3
The civil parish
of Elland-cum-Greetland
was abolished in 1894 and divided into the parishes of
Elland,
Greetland
and
Upper Greetland.
In 1975, a new vicarage was used at 138 Rochdale Road.
The building is now a private house.
In 1989, a new vicarage was built on the Goldfields estate
See
Greetland Methodist Church
After he was killed during World War I, the parents of George Mitchell established an institute at the chapel in his memory.
In 1813, Rev Thomas Jackson refused to bury men who had been
executed for the attack on William Cartwright's mill at Rawfolds.
His reasons were that they were not Methodists.
Porches were added in 1897, and the doors were replaced by windows
General Baptist Chapel, Queensbury Ref 5-389 
General Baptist Church, Haley Hill Ref 5-G129
very few attended except when Mr Taylor preached
a more favourable part of town
Pastors at the Church have included
General Baptist Graveyard, Queensbury Ref 5-855
General Cemetery, Halifax Ref 5-G18 Gibbet Street Chapel of Rest, Halifax Ref 5-39
Gibbet Street Primitive Methodist Church, Halifax Ref 5-345 Goathouse Church, Rishworth Ref 5-911 Good Shepherd Catholic Church, Mytholmroyd Ref 5-G140
Subsequent Ministers at the Chapel have included
Good Shepherd Mission Church, Halifax Ref 5-188 Gorple Mission Ref 5-503 Goshen Salvation Army Citadel, Todmorden Ref 5-259 The Gospel Hall, Halifax Ref 5-264 The Gospel Hall, Todmorden Ref 5-65
Opening of a new preaching place in Vale Street, Todmorden,
styled The Gospel Hall, being the outcome of Tent Services
conducted in Holme field by the Yorkshire Brethren
Gospel Mission Church, Brighouse Ref 5-328 Grace Baptist Church, Pellon Ref 5-141
Grace Hill Baptist Church, Mount Tabor Ref 5-413
Graves, Memorials & Epitaphs Ref 5-529
Graveyard Plans Ref 5-757 Greetland & Lindwell Methodist Church Ref 5-350
Subsequent Ministers at the Chapel have included
Greetland Methodist Church Ref 5-452
Subsequent Ministers at the Chapel have included
Greetland Methodist Graveyard Ref 5-639
Greetland, Parish of Ref 5-G932 Greetland Vicarage Ref 5-809
Greetland Wesley Church Ref 5-479 Greetland Wesleyan Chapel Ref 5-97
Ministers at the Chapel have included
Grinsworth Wesleyan Church, Wadsworth Ref 5-339
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