Old Dolphin Church, Clayton Heights

[mjn]

My GGgrandfather was buried at the Old Dolphin Church, Clayton Heights, Bradford in 1870. Can anyone tell me if this churchyard still exists, please?

[PaulineJ]

I'm looking at the West Yorks street atlas. There is a Chapel Lane in Clayton Heights, opposite Sheep Hill Lane (Postcode BD13); There is a chapel/church there, Can't see if a graveyard is attached.
The area is called Old Dolphin.

It is not developed for housing, by the look of it, so it may well still be there.

Pauline

[KathyM]

This would be = Dolphin Weslyan Methodist Chapel.....according to something I read, money was given towards it by the local Hirst family, who had a brewery - a strange thing, as many Weslyan's didn't drink !
There is a pub, still there, called the Old Dolphin Inn......son't know where the name comes from......but in Yorkshire there are a few places where Whale bone arches were placed.....miles from the sea !

[mjn]

Thanks, Pauline and Kathy, for the info. Once I get Xmas out of the way, I'll have to take a drive there and try to find it.

 

[KathyM]

Let us know what you find....

[esse]

Could I give this old thread a bump and find out if mjn or anyone found whether the chapel still exists.  I thought not when I went ages ago, I seem to remember I concluded it may be under the lawn of an old peoples home now... sad as I have ancestors buried there.

Bradford Central Library does hold transcriptions of graves from the 1920s though - the Blackburn transcriptions.

Would love to at least confirm the chapel and graveyard aren't there anymore, so I could stop looking?