RIPPONDEN, a chapelry in the parish of HALIFAX,
wapentake of MORLEY, West riding of the county of
YORK, 5 miles (S. W.) from Halifax, with which the
population is returned. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of York, endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of the Vicar of Halifax.
The chapel, dedicated to St. Bartholomew, was
rebuilt in the Tuscan order soon after the great flood
that happened here in 1722, which not only did considerable
injury to the ancient structure, but laid open
many graves, and carried away bridges, mills, houses,
and every other impediment to its progress. The cemetery
is surrounded with ancient yew-trees cut in
the form of Saxon arches. There is a place of worship
for Wesleyan Methodists.