HORBURY, a chapelry in the parish of WAKEFIELD,
lower division of the wapentake of AGBRIGG,
West riding of the county of YORK, 3 miles (S.w.
by W.) from Wakefield, containing 2475 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of York, endowed with £15 per annum
and £200 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty;
and in the patronage of the Vicar of Wakefield. The
church, dedicated to St. Peter, is a handsome edifice,
erected byMr. J. Carr, a respectable architect, at an expense
of £8000, defrayed by himself: one hundred and
fifty-two free sittings have recently been added, by
means of a grant of £150 from the Incorporated Society
for the enlargement of churches and chapels. The
manufacture of cloth is considerable in this chapelry;
A school for ten children has an income of £ 15. 15. per
annum, appropriated from the town lands; the masterhas
a residence rent-free, likewise a rent-charge of £2
the gift of -Richard Wormald in 1731.