Buttershaw Congregationalist Church

The church has its origins in the Heywood Congregational Church in Northowram who maintained a preaching station at Carr House School in Shelf for many years. In the late 1860's the congregation there decided to build a church of their own. The corner stone for the new church, sited on Halifax Road in Buttershaw, was laid on the 25th July 1868. It was opened on the 23rd March 1870.

Subscribers who donated money for the building included James Bottomley of nearby Buttershaw Mills, as well as by other local leading non-conformists, Sir Titus Salt and John Crossley.

A Sunday School was built behind the church and opened in 1875 and it was also used as a day school. When dry rot was found in the building in 1984 it had to be demolished and was replaced by the present modern building which was opened in May 1986.

It is now known as New Hope Christian Fellowship.