Wainsgate Baptist Church Graveyard
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Wainsgate Baptist Church Graveyard

Hebden Bridge, Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England

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Wainsgate chapel is situated on the edge of open moorland on the hillside above Hebden Bridge, 290m above sea level. It covers a total area of about 0.66ha (1.6 acres). The historic plans of the graveyard show around 1,557 grave plots identified and numbered (the various plans show different numbers of plots, so the total is not exact), and it is thought that around 1,350 of these have been used or purchased for future use. 

The first Baptist chapel at Wainsgate was built in 1750, was rebuilt in 1815 and 1860, and remodelled in 1891 to form the current chapel and attached Sunday school. The first recorded burial at Wainsgate was on 7th April 1762, and since then over 3,000 people have been interred there. The graveyard is still in use as a private burial ground, open to people of all religious and non-religious traditions for full burials or interment of ashes. 

The chapel closed for regular worship in 2001 and was transferred from the Yorkshire Baptist Association to the Historic Chapels Trust in 2005. The chapel and Sunday school (now a thriving arts & community centre) and the burial ground are owned by the  Historic Chapels Trust and administered by  Wainsgate Chapel (Charitable Incorporated Organization No.1198994). Wainsgate Chapel is a member of the National Federation of Cemetery Friends.

For more information about the graveyard, its history and the stories of the people interred there, visit the Wainsgate Graveyard Project .

Wainsgate chapel is situated on the edge of open moorland on the hillside above Hebden Bridge, 290m above sea level. It covers a total area of about 0.66ha (1.6 acres). The historic plans of the graveyard show around 1,557 grave plots identified and numbered (the various plans show different numbers of plots, so the total is not exact), and it is thought that around 1,350 of these have been used or purchased for future use. 

The first Baptist chapel at Wainsgate was built in 1750, was rebuilt in 1815 and 1860, and remodelled in 1891 to form the current chapel and attached Sunday school. The first recorded burial at Wainsgate was on 7th April 1762, and since then over 3,000 people have been interred there. The graveyard is still in use as a private burial ground, open to people of all religious and non-religious traditions for full burials or interment of ashes. 

The chapel closed for regular worship in 2001 and was transferred from the Yorkshire Baptist Association to the Historic Chapels Trust in 2005. The chapel and Sunday school (now a thriving arts & community centre) and the burial ground are owned by the  Historic Chapels Trust and administered by  Wainsgate Chapel (Charitable Incorporated Organization No.1198994). Wainsgate Chapel is a member of the National Federation of Cemetery Friends.

For more information about the graveyard, its history and the stories of the people interred there, visit the Wainsgate Graveyard Project .

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