page_title: Otley
section_title: Religion
hierarchical_section_title: Otley / Religion
caption_attribution_description: English: Navvies' Monument, Church Lane, Otley. A model of the Bramhope Tunnel as a memorial to the navvies who died in its construction.
context_page_description: Otley is a market town and civil parish at a bridging point on the River Wharfe, in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the population was 13,668 at the 2011 census. It is in two parts: south of the river is the historic town of Otley and to the north is Newall, which was formerly a separate township. The town is in lower Wharfedale on the A660 road which connects it to Leeds.
  The town is in the Otley and Yeadon ward of Leeds City Council and the Leeds North West parliamentary constituency.
context_section_description: Otley's first church was built in the early 7th century, made of wood, but was burnt down. The Parish Church (All Saints) originates from Saxon times and contains the remains of two early Anglo-Saxon crosses, one of which has been reproduced for the town's war memorial.  The present building is based on a Norman church from the 12th century but little of the original remains, except the north doorway. Substantial changes were made in the 13th, 14th and 18th century, with the Tower Clock dating from 1793. This church was the centre of an ancient ecclesiastical parish which comprised the chapelries of Baildon, Bramhope, Burley in Wharfedale, Denton, and Farnley, and the townships of Esholt, Hawksworth, Lindley, Menston, Newall with Clifton, Pool-in-Wharfedale, and Little Timble.
  The graveyard contains the "Navvies' Monument", a replica of the entrance to Bramhope Tunnel, a monument to those killed during its construction.  Inside the church is the tomb of the grandparents of Thomas Fairfax who commanded Parliament's forces at the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644.
  What is now the Bridge Church was originally the Salem Chapel, built in 1826, being for many years the Congregational Church but having its present name from 1972 with the formation of the United Reformed Church.  Our Lady and All Saints Roman Catholic Church was opened in 1851.
  Methodist preacher John Wesley was a frequent visitor to the town in the 18th century.  Allegedly his horse died in the town and is buried in the grounds of the parish church.  Its grave is marked by an unusual stone, also known locally as the "Donkey Stone".  His Journal for 1761 reads, "6 July Monday; In the evening I preached at Otley and afterwards talked with many of the Society. There is reason to believe that ten or twelve of these are filled with the love of God." Wesley Street is named after him.  A chapel was established on  Walkergate in about 1800, replaced by a larger one on Westgate in 1857: a third Chapel (now Trinity Methodist Church) was built on Boroughate in 1876.
  A Primitive Methodist Chapel opened on New Market in 1835, and is now the Salvation Army Citadel: a Primitive Church on Station Road opened in 1874 and closed in 1965 (it is now residences). Another Primitive Church on Craven Street opened in 1901 and closed in the early 1950s. It is now the headquarters of 2nd Otley Scouts, and is known as the Chevin Community Centre.
  An 1890 Quaker meeting house on Cross Green is now a Gospel Hall. What was formerly Bethany Chapel on Myers Croft became home to Bethel Evangelical Church in the mid 1990s. Other Christian groups meet in members' homes or rented rooms.
caption: Navvies' Monument
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