Bingley, Yorkshire, Baptists

Bingley, Yorkshire, Baptists – the Bingley church was originally a mixed congregation of Baptists and Independents, with its chief pastors during the early years being Thomas Butterworth of Goodshaw and William Hartley (both Baptists), and Joseph Harrison, an Independent minister but who was never ordained (James Ashworth of Gildersome administered the Lord’s Supper for him).  See See W. E. Blomfield, “Yorkshire Baptist Churches in the 17th and 18th Centuries,” in C. E. Shipley, ed., The Baptists of Yorkshire: Being the Centenary Memorial Volume of the Yorkshire Baptist Association (Bradford and London: [n.d.], 1912), 53-118.