St Peter’s Church – formed appropriately on St Peter’s Day in 1872 – was one of several later Victorian measures “to provide for the spiritual wants of the large and increasing population of the Parish of Keighley”, notably in a growing suburbia.
For its first ten years, the St Peter’s congregation worshipped in an iron building, until this church “in the early English style of architecture” accommodating 850, opened in Halifax Road in 1882. The iron building thereupon became a Sunday School.
St Peter’s epitomised the range of social – as well as religious – amenities offered by places of worship in their heyday. In addition to the Sunday services, a typical week offered a savings bank, sewing party, men’s and women’s help societies, Bible and singing classes, a Band of Hope, Church Temperance Society and Mothers’ Union.
It was demolished in 1956.
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