Halifax Minster
A medieval grave cover in the south porch dated 1150, depicting a pair of cropper’s shears, provides the earliest evidence for the textile industry in Calderdale.
Although plague, which claimed the lives of three later vicars, caused considerable economic and social dislocation
in the late fourteenth century, during the fifteenth century the church was substantially enlarged in a magnificent perpendicular rebuilding in order to offer more spacious accommodation for the growing population of the parish sustained by the expanding textile
industry.
Halifax Minster
A medieval grave cover in the south porch dated 1150, depicting a pair of cropper’s shears, provides the earliest evidence for the textile industry in Calderdale.
Although plague, which claimed the lives of three later vicars, caused considerable economic and social dislocation
in the late fourteenth century, during the fifteenth century the church was substantially enlarged in a magnificent perpendicular rebuilding in order to offer more spacious accommodation for the growing population of the parish sustained by the expanding textile
industry.