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Can anyone tell me, is there a church in Extwistle and if so what is it called? I had a look at Genuki but it just says CofE and no detail.

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Mel

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Not that I know of Mel, in fact I am pretty sure there isn't. They seemed to use Haggate or St Peters. There is a church in Worsthorne which they could have used but I don't know when that came into being.

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Gloria

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St Johns Church Worsthorne was built in 1835 before St James Briercliffe. Some people from the Roggerham and Extwistle area would have gone there. There wasn't a church or chapel at Extwistle.

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Town / Index no : Worsthorne - WOR.CE.01
Map references : OS SD 877324
Name : St.John the Evangelist, 1999 - United Benefice with St.John's, Cliviger (CLI.CE.01)
Denomination : Church of England
Address : Church Square, Worsthorne
Incumbent : Rev.Lawrence Laycock, The Vicarage, Worsthorne
Telephone : 01282 428478 (vicarage)
01282 453728 (church)

Parish Registers at County Record Office, listed in "Finding Folk"
C 1835-1960, M 1843-1977, B 1835-1879, + MIs
Local Sources for Copies of Parish Registers
Early marriages were at St.Peter's Church Burnley (BUR.CE.15) at Burnley Library
Graveyard
Part in front of the church and part behind the church. Still in use. Grass cut
Memorial Inscriptions
Transcribed in 1981 - 247 headstones
Local Copies of Memorial Inscriptions
Burnley, Colne & Nelson Libraries
Brief History
1835 Church built (Worsthorne was formerly part of the parish of St.Peter, Burnley (BUR.CE.15)
1851 Religious Census = Consecrated 1836
Burnley Library Newspaper Index - several reports
see ' Worsthorne Church & The Thursbys, by Leslie Chapels (1978) ISBN/ISSN L000132209
'A hidden story to be told' by James Howell - History of the Church
'A historical diary of events for St.John's Church, Worsthorne from 1835-1922' by J A Latham (a copy of the original diary)

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Gloria

I'd be dangerous with a brain.

Town / Index no : Worsthorne - WOR.Bap.01
Map references : OS SD 882314
Name : Hurstwood Baptist Chapel
Hurstwood Christian Church Fellowship
Denomination : Baptist
Address : Hurstwood, near Burnley
Incumbent : -
Telephone : -

Parish Registers at County Record Office, listed in "Finding Folk"
MIs only
Local Sources for Copies of Parish Registers
-
Graveyard
Small. Recent burials in existing graves
Memorial Inscriptions
Transcribed in 1981 - 89 headstones
Local Copies of Memorial Inscriptions
Burnley, Colne & Nelson Libraries
Brief History
1870 Chapel built, date stone on the chapel = AD MDCCCLXX

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Gloria

I'd be dangerous with a brain.

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Town / Index no : Worsthorne - WOR.WM.01
Map references : a - OS SD 873324
b - OS SD 874324
Name : Wesleyan Chapel
Denomination : Wesleyan Methodist
Address : a - Hall Street, Worsthorne
b - Chapel Street, Worsthorne
Incumbent : -
Telephone : -

Parish Registers at County Record Office, listed in "Finding Folk"
C 1840-1983, M 1910-1981, B 1842-1914 + MIs
Local Sources for Copies of Parish Registers
-
Graveyard
Small and overgrown. Recent burials in existing graves
Memorial Inscriptions
Transcribed in 1981 - 128 headstones
Local Copies of Memorial Inscriptions
Burnley, Colne & Nelson Libraries
Brief History
1797 Preaching took place in a house
1817 Sunday School at 'Chadwick's House' & then in the Old Hall
1837 First chapel built down Hall Street - still standing & used as a children's nursery
1851 Religious Census = built 1837
1877 New chapel opened
1927 Jubilee - see Burnley Library Newspaper Index
1982 Demolished. Chapel Lodge Home for the Elderly now built on the site
see 'History of Worsthorne Methodism compiled for the Centenary celebrations, 1837-1937' by George E Benyon (1937)

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Gloria

I'd be dangerous with a brain.