St Matthew’s
Allerton, originally a hill village on the western edge of Bradford, expanded in the post-war years when a large residential estate was built by the local authority, partly to re-house people displaced by inner city slum clearance.
Mass was first said in the school hall in 1957; the parish was created in 1959 with Fr Hadfield the first Parish Priest. In 1966, the parish purchased a former Baptist church on the main road in Allerton; built in 1872, it was adapted from designs by Hadfield Cawkwell Davison. This building closed in 1980 when the parish moved to the present building.