Halifax Parish Church became Halifax Minster in 2009, around 570 years after the current building was completed, and stands on a site which has been used for christian worship for over 900 years. For most of those years, the church has been at the heart of life in Halifax, and there are few places where the town's history can be read so clearly. The Minster is located at the bottom end of the town, close to the railway station and below the Piece Hall. It is positioned in a bend of the Hebble Brook, the course of which is now diverted and hidden by the Industrial Revolution development, and ...
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