Lightcliffe Old Church Graveyard



The graveyard of Lightcliffe Old Church stands at the junction of Till Carr Lane and Wakefield Road.

The Church was licensed for burials in 1668.

Till Carr House stood in the grounds of the graveyard. Evan Sutherland-Walker moved the house to its present position, further down Till Carr Lane, in 1865.

In 1865, the graveyard was extended.

People buried / remembered here

The following people are/were listed here:




The Walker family of Lightcliffe

Joseph Aspinall

James Bancroft
Philemon Bancroft
Grace  Baxendale [1795-1830]
John Raymond Berry
William Berry
Fred Booth
Fred Booth
Joseph Lumb Brook
George Percy S. Brown

Rev Thomas Cox

Abraham Drake

Hannah Greenwood
Mary Guest
Rev William Gurney

May Hartley
William Holland
Joseph Alfred Holt
Charles Henry Hoyle
Timothy Hoyle
John Hutchinson

Christopher Joshua Kershaw

Sarah Ann  Leeming
James Longbottom
Joseph Longbottom
William Longbottom

Hugh Mallinson
Jane, wife of John Mallinson
William Mallinson
Fred Mitchell

John Naylor
Joseph Naylor
Samuel Naylor
Frank Newsome
William Nichols

George Edward Potter
Herbert Pybus
Walter Pybus
William Pybus

Abraham Radcliffe
Charles Radcliffe
William Radcliffe
William Towne Radcliffe

Dr Middleton Scales
Henry Senior
Samuel Sharp
Joseph William Shaw
Family of John Shillito
John Smith
Joshua Smith
Sammy Smith
Reginald John Sowerby
Frederick Clarkson, son of John William Standeven
Leonard Sucksmith
Rev Richard Sutcliffe
Captain George Mackay Sutherland
John Sykes

James Tate
Matilda Tate
William Tate

Ann Walker
James Walker
John Walker
Samuel Lord Watkinson
John Wheelhouse
ELSIE VICTORIA  WOLFENDEN

 

The Friends of St Matthew's Churchyard, Lightcliffe have done an an excellent job of clearing the overgrown ground, and of recording the graves at Lightcliffe Church.

See St Matthew's Churchyard Burial Records


See Brighouse Cemetery, Friends of St Matthew's Churchyard, Lightcliffe, In the Shadow of Lightcliffe's Old Tower and People of interest in Lightcliffe Churchyard



© Malcolm Bull 2024
Revised 17:37 / 22nd December 2024 / 9674

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