Wyke Congregational Church History

WYKE:
Wyke Congregational Church History up to 1868.

This chapel was built in 1827. For a considerable time it received the unpaid services of the Rev. B. FIRTH, who kept the Manor-house Academy, near at hand. It afterwards became a station of the West Riding Home Mission. Rev. B. Firth died in 1854, and was succeeded by

• Rev. CHARLES ILLINGWORTH, from Bradford. Mr. I. resigned his pastorship, 1868. The pulpit is now vacant.