Can I have my baby christened?  [Return]

The basic requirement for baptism, and "baptism is the church word for it, rather than "christening", is that you want to bring up your child as a Christian person and are willing publicly to promise you’ll do that. The baptism service is a simple one – and we will explain it for you before the event. We will try to make you as welcome as we possibly can.

We have two main arrangements for baptisms. On some Sundays we make provision for them to be included in the 10am Sunday communion service. If you feel that is not quite your thing, the vicar does make arrangements at other times later on a Sunday morning, before lunch time.

If you don’t live inside the parish, it is only polite to ask the vicar of your home parish before we make any arrangements for baptisms to come to Battyeford. But we do recognise that family connections sometimes make that the more sensible place for a family occasion. So we are very happy to discuss it with you, provided that your own vicar is happy.

Do I live in the parish?

Parish boundaries do strange things, like going down the middle of streets and even through the middle of houses, so when it comes to technical things like the legalities of weddings you do need to make sure by asking the vicar.

But as a general guide, the parish of Battyeford consists of most of the Brighouse end of Mirfield. If you stand at the Three Nuns pub, you’re in the corner of the parish. The boundary goes up the fields at the back of the pub and emerges onto Leeds Road at the Fountain corner. Then we’re onto the middle of roads, down the middle of Sunnybank Road, Old Bank Road, Water Royd Lane, Knowl Road and Crowther Road. Then it gets a bit funny, going through the middle of Littlemore Grove and The Maltings down to the river. Then you get in your boat if you’re beating the bounds, because you follow the middle of the water back down towards the Three Nuns again.

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