THORNTON, a chapelry in the parish of BRADFORD,
wapentake of MORLEY, West riding of the county
of YORK, 4 miles (W.) from Bradford, containing 4100
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of York, endowed with £400
private benefaction, £600 rOyal bounty, and £400 parliamentary
grant, and in the patronage of the Vicar of
Bradford. The chapel, dedicated to St. James, is principally
in the later style of English architecture. There
are quarries of freestone in the neighbourhood, and the
manufacture of worsted is carried on to a considerable
extent. A school, erected by subscription, is endowed
with £ 50 per annum, arising from the produce of divers
benefactions, the principal of which are those of George
Ellis and Samuel Sunderland: about eighty children
are instructed, some of them in the classics.