Both churches – St Thomas the Apostle Church and St Thomas à Becket – share the same graveyard.
There are an estimated 100,000 burials in the old graveyard which lies between the 2 Churches.
Old Section |
The following people, and/or members of their family, were buried in the Old Section
and others were buried inside the Church.
In 1911, Gamaliel Sutcliffe gave land for a new graveyard and the old graveyard was closed to new burials in 1915.
New Section |
The following people, and/or members of their family, were buried in the New Section, also known as The Cemetery
- Ben Ackroyd [1922-1944]
- Matthew Bairstow [1778-1837]
- Sam Barker [1883-1917]
- Caroline Berry [1849-1943]
- Emmaline Berry [1850-1943]
- James Thomas Berry [1802-1886]
- John Berry [1770-1854]
- Hinchliffe Booth [1848-1889]
- James Sutcliffe Bourn [1852-1912]
- Richard Sutcliffe Bourn [1857-1929]
- Simpson Bowes [1869-1909]
- Barker Thomas Clegg [1880-1961]
- John Crabtree [1886-1945]
- Henry Thomas Cunliffe [1837-1882]
- William Dearden [1803-1889]
- John Dugdale [1819-1874]
- Robert Shackleton Eastwood [1817-1858]
- Robert Feather [1791-1863]
- William Fielding [1804-1871]
- Harold Gibson [18??-1946]
- Joshua Gibson [1805-1858]
- Ellis Greenwood [1798-1877]
- Richard Greenwood [1858-1896]
- Squire Greenwood [1840-1877]
- Thomas Greenwood [1816-1880]
- Harry Heap [1861-1897]
- Henry Heap [1814-1856]
- Phoebe Heyhirst
- Henry Heyhirst [1790-1851]
- John Heyhirst [1789-1???]
- John Heyhirst [1813-1881]
- Benjamin Hodgson [1886-1917]
- John Hodgson [1805-1879]
- Hartley Hollinrake [1869-1932]
- James Hollinrake [1894-1916]
- Jonas Hollinrake [1858-1935]
- Harry King [1890-1918]
- George Masters [1874-1939]
- Champion Murgatroyd [1797-1872]
- Champion Murgatroyd [1829-1901]
- Henry Murgatroyd [1841-1910]
- John Murgatroyd [1823-1886]
- John William Ogden [1893-1918]
- Reverdy Carriborne Otley [1893-1946]
- Abraham Robertshaw [1849-1903]
- Thomas Slater [1844-1909]
- Albert Edward Stansfield [1889-1937]
- Alfred Sunderland [1881-1917]
- Arthur Sutcliffe [1886-1970]
- Eileen, wife of Sir Harold Sutcliffe
- Helena Sutcliffe [1873-1956]
- John Thomas Sutcliffe [1846-1919]
- William Sutcliffe [1776-1854]
- William Sutcliffe [1810-1864]
- William Henry Sutcliffe [1854-1913]
- James Sutcliffe-Thomas [1850-1927]
- Benjamin Sykes [1893-1917]
- Wright Sykes [1868-1955]
- Henry Murgatroyd Thomas [1842-1910]
- John Thomas [1827-1857]
- Arthur Uttley [1869-1918]
- Betsy Uttley [1862-1934]
- Ingham Uttley [1878-1916]
- Mary Uttley [1829-1897]
- Richard Wadsworth [1812-1894]
- Alexander Wild [1873-1945]
Some of the monumental inscriptions in the graveyard are shown in the book entitled Burials at the Chapels of Heptonstall & Cross Stone and at Memorial Inscriptions from the gravestones at Heptonstall churchyard on the Hebden Bridge Local History Section websitehist
See Chantry House, Heptonstall
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