We are delighted that have chosen to click through to our site because it gives us an opportunity to introduce you to the vibrant Anglican community and its building that is situated in the beautiful south Pennine region of West Yorkshire.
Haworth will forever be linked to the literary output of the three daughters of one of our former incumbents, the Rev. Patrick Brontë. He and his family lived in the Parsonage just to the west of the Church building from 1820 until 1861 and the novels produced by Charlotte, Anne and Emily not only still enthral readers throughout the world but attract many visitors to the Church and the village from around the world as well as from Yorkshire, its surrounding counties and the rest of Great Britain and Ireland.
All the family but Anne was interred in a tomb beneath the present Church which was rebuilt after Brontë’s death. The present Church was constructed between 1879 and 1881 and, although little remains of the previous buildings – parts of the present church tower formed parts of both the medieval church building as well as the one that Brontë would have used – many historical connections with both the Anglican and Methodist movements as well as literature are still present.
Today, the St Michael and All Angels, together with its associated Church St Gabriel’s in the nearby hill-top village of Stanbury, provides a spiritual centre for the district’s vibrant Anglican community.
The Church continues to serve its community by providing regular services; spiritual support and community activities. Most things that you will need to know about our Church and what it has to offer can be found within this web site. If you cannot find what you need to know then please use the e-mail contact facility to ask your question and we will do our best to get back to you as fast as we can.
STANBURY (St Gabriel’s)
A vital part of the Haworth Parish is the neighbouring hill-top village of Stanbury where the congregation attend sister Church, St Gabriel’s. This neat Yorkshire-stone building also has part to play in the Bronte legend.
Rev. Patrick Bronte initiated the building of a ‘Mission Church / School’ in Stanbury in 1848, the year that both his only son Branwell and daughter Emily both died. Patrick’s curate, Arthur Bell Nicholls, took a particular interest in the project and he oversaw its construction. It is believed that Charlotte taught in the Sunday School at Stanbury Church and in 1854 (with the reluctant agreement of her father) she and Arthur Bell Nicholls were married.
