Saint Michael And All Angels Church Shelf

General Notes

St Michael's & All Angels' Church, Shelf is a Million Pound Church designed by Mallinson & Healey.

Built for the new Parish of Shelf.

It was erected and endowed by John Hardy Esq of Low Moor Iron Works was also patron of the living.

His son Charles laid the foundation stone for the Church [27th February 1849].

The Church was consecrated on the 14th June 1850 and a school and vicarage were built later.

A small extension was added to form the Church Room [1983].

On 1st April 1994, St Michael & All Angel's, Shelf joined St Aidan's, Buttershaw to become the Parish of Shelf with Buttershaw.

The records for the Church are held at the West Yorkshire Archive Service office in Halifax (Collection BDP82): Baptisms [1850-1989], Banns [1923-1989], Marriages [1850-1979] and Burials [1850-1978].

Vicars of Shelf Parish

• Rev John Power (alias Polker) [1850-1853]
• Rev William Henry Hopkins [1853-1856]
• Rev Frederick Smith [1856-1874]
• Rev Thomas Aylmer Alexander Hughes [1874-1905]
• Rev Andrew Lowe Greig [1905-1916]
• Rev Alfred Henry Rix [1916-1923]
• Rev Charles Oldham [1923-1934]
• Rev Harry Isherwood [1934-1947]
• Rev Donald Kirk Croft [1947-1951]
• Fr Samuel Boylan Brown [1952-1962]
• Fr Reginald Geoffrey Darrah [1962-1968]
• Fr David Thomas Whitehorn Salt [1968-1973]
• Fr Ronald R. Barratt [1973-1979]
• Fr Peter Rhys-Thomas [1979-1981]
• Rev Derrick Peel [1982-1994]

Clergy of Shelf-with-Buttershaw Parish

• Team Vicars
  • Fr John Holford [1993-1998]
  • Rev Marion Gaskell [2002-2004]
  • Rev Sue E. W. Shrine [2004-2010]
  • Rev Andrew John Greiff [2012-Present]

• Team Rectors
  • Rev Derrick Peel [1994-1995]
  • Rev Canon Peter Stannard [1997-1999]
  • Fr John Howard Springbett [2000-2003]
  • Rev Marion Gaskell [2004-2018]

• Team Rectors
  • Rev Derrick Peel [1994-1995]
  • Rev Canon Peter Stannard [1997-1999]
  • Fr John Howard Springbett [2000-2003]
  • Rev Marion Gaskell [2004-2018]

• Curates of Shelf Parish and later Shelf-with-Buttershaw Parish
  • Rev Charles H. Tandy Lett [1903-1905]
  • Rev Murillo Bonaby [1963-1965]
  • Rev Brian P. H. James [1966-1971]
  • Rev Arthur Stewart Vasey [1971-1973]
  • Rev Alan Kitchen [1980-1985]
  • Rev Geoffrey Herbert Coles [1974-1979]
  • Rev Roger Wilkinson [1988-1989]
  • Rev Melvin Garside [1991-1993]
  • Rev John Y. W. Ritchie [1991-1995]

• Other Staff
  • Rev Jack Read (Honorary Assistant Priest) [1986-c.1999]
  • Church Army Captain Guy Harrison [1985-1988]
  • Church Army Captain Roy Wheatley [1988-2005]
  • Church Army Captain Garry Roberts [1990]
  • Rev Thierry Guillemin (Associate Priest) [2011-2012]
  • Rev Jane Trenholme (Pioneer Minister) [2018-Present]