Religion
Horbury had a chapel of ease to the Church of All Saints in Wakefield, from before the time of the Domesday Book. This chapel was replaced by a Norman chapel with a nave and tower and stood until it was replaced in 1790 by the present church. The Parish church of St Peter and St Leonard was designed by John Carr, the Horbury born architect who had it built the Georgian neo-classical style between 1790 to 1794 at a cost to himself of £8,000. He is buried in a vault beneath the north aisle.
St John's Church at Horbury Bridge was, in 1864, a mission meeting in a room in what is now the Post Office. Funds were raised and a church built with stone from Horbury Quarry in 1884. The curate, Sabine Baring-Gould wrote the hymn "Onward Christian Soldiers" in 1865 for the Whitsun procession to Horbury Church. A mission was set up at Horbury Junction in 1887 and replaced by St Mary's Church in 1893.
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