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D000053 - HALIFAX ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, PARISH RECORDS (WDP53)
1 - Registration
2 - Services
3 - Incumbent and benefice
4 - Fabric
1 - Faculties
1 - Faculty to restore the Parish Church (work further described in detail)
2 - Copy citation to place a brass tablet on the north wall of the Parish Church in memory of the Halifax men who lost their lives in the South African War 1899-1902
3 - Copy citation to fit three stained glass windows in the Rokeby Chapel
4 - Faculty, with copy citation, to restore the Rokeby Chapel with altar or ornaments and restore the old piscina; and to place candlesticks in the chancel
5 - Copy citation to erect a war memorial in the south porch of the Parish Church; and a reredos and panelling in the Holdsworth Chapel
6 - Faculty to erect a war memorial in the south porch of the Parish Church; and a reredos and panelling in the Holdsworth Chapel
7 - Copy citation to erect a memorial for the 9th Battalion of Duke of Wellington's Regiment in the south porch of the Parish Church
8 - Faculty to erect a memorial for the 9th Battalion of Duke of Wellington's Regiment in the south porch of the Parish Church
9 - Faculty to erect a new organ, to remove two pendant brackets in the Sanctuary, to affix two concealed lights, to affix a bronze plate on the organ case and to fix three oak panels in the vestry roof bearing the arms of three successive vicars of Halifax
10 - Faculty to improve the lighting of the Choir by drop lights, to erect a new clock in the tower and to place two candlesticks in the Sanctuary
11 - Faculty to authorise the placing of the cremated remains of Bishop Frodsham in the Chancel outside the altar rails, and to cover the same with an inscribed stone slab two feet square
12 - Petition for faculty to authorise the appropriation of a piece of the consecrated section of Stoney Royd Cemetery for road widening purposes and to open up a connection between Bailey Hall Road and Siddal New Road
13 - Faculty to place on the west wall of the Rokeby Chapel the framed deed of grant of the Freedom of the Borough of Halifax to the Duke of Wellington's Regiment
14 - Faculty to cover over with grass the flat gravestones in the churchyard on the east, south and west sides of the church
15 - Faculty to remove pews from the base of a pillar in the south-west corner of the church, to place an oak chest dated 1698 in the space created, and to remove two pews from the front of the north aisle of the church
16 - Faculty to erect portions of an oak 1914-1918 war memorial of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment in the north-west corner of the church, to remove the necessary pews to make the requisite space, and to remove the inferior coloured glass from the north-west corner window and insert opaque clear glass in place thereof
17 - Petition for faculty to place a stone in memory of James Green in the floor of the tower
18 - Faculty to place oak chairs in the Duke of Wellington's Memorial Chapel
19 - Faculty to re-lead the six Commonwealth glass windows on the north side and south sides of the church and to interchange two Commonwealth glass windows on the north side of the church with two stained glass windows on the south side
20 - Faculty to introduce a processional cross in memory of James William Gledhill, to remove a pedestal in the centre of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment Memorial Chapel to the south wall and to install a memorial tablet in memory of the late Canon James on the north wall of the tower
21 - Faculty to convert the existing heating boiler from hard fuel to oil burning
22 - Faculty, with copy citation, to affix a memorial tablet to the Reverend C Tremayne on the north wall of the tower; to rewire and relight the church; and to rearrange the sanctuary by removing the existing reredos, repositioning the altar and placing oak panelling along the east wall behind the altar
2 - Improvement Fund
3 - Restoration Fund
4 - Alterations and maintenance
5 - Altars
6 - Bells
7 - Clock
8 - Gates
9 - Memorials
10 - Organ
11 - Pews
12 - Windows
13 - Churchyard
14 - Other fabric records
5 - Vestry
6 - Parish Clerk
7 - Churchwardens
8 - Overseers of the Poor
9 - Parochial Church Council
10 - Charities and bequests
11 - Church Organisations
12 - Education
13 - Enclosure and tithe
14 - Parish magazines
15 - Other records
16 - Mission Churches
17 - Wakefield Diocese
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