Editing Ilkley (section)

==Religion==
[[File:AllSaintsParishChurch.jpg|thumb|right|[[All Saints' Parish Church, Ilkley|All Saints' Parish Church]]]]
According to Census 2001, 75.64% of Ilkley residents are Christian. The second largest group are people with no religion who account for 15.53% of residents. 7.48% did not state their religion and 1.34% fall into a variety of other religious groups.<ref name="2001census" />

===Places of worship===

Ilkley's medieval parish church [[All Saints' Parish Church, Ilkley|All Saints']], largely reconstructed in the Victorian era, houses artefacts of the site's ancient Christian heritage including three Saxon crosses<ref name="AllSaintsChurch" /> and today operates within the [[Anglican Communion]]. An expanding congregation in the 19th&nbsp;century triggered plans in 1873 for a second church which became St Margaret's Church, designed by [[Richard Norman Shaw]] and completed in 1879.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ilkleystmargarets.googlepages.com/historyofthechurchbuilding |title=History of the Church Building |first=Paul |last=Kershaw |access-date=15 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514211933/http://ilkleystmargarets.googlepages.com/historyofthechurchbuilding |archive-date=14 May 2008 }}</ref> Worship at the church is conducted in the [[Anglo-Catholicism|Anglo-Catholic]] tradition<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ilkleystmargarets.googlepages.com/index |title=Visitors Welcome Page |access-date=15 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514211941/http://ilkleystmargarets.googlepages.com/index |archive-date=14 May 2008 }}</ref> and in 2005 was led by [[David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes]]. When the [[Archbishop of York]] resigned he became vicar at Ilkley until his retirement in 2006.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/270 |title=David Hope to retire from Ilkley |date=11 September 2006 |publisher=archbishopofcanterbury.org |access-date=15 June 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091023111736/http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/270 |archive-date=23 October 2009 }}</ref>

Other places of worship in Ilkley include Ben Rhydding Methodist Church ([[Methodism|Methodist]]), [[Christchurch, Ilkley|Christchurch]] ([[Methodism|Methodist]]/[[United Reformed Church|United Reformed]]), Ilkley Baptist Church ([[Baptist]]), Kingdom Hall, Ilkley ([[Jehovah's Witnesses]]), St John's Parish Church, St Margaret's Church, Ben Rhydding ([[Anglicanism|Anglican]]), the Church of the Sacred Heart ([[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]]) and the Ilkley Society of Friends' ([[Religious Society of Friends|Quaker]]) [[Friends meeting house|Meeting House]], which opened in 1869.<ref>{{cite web|work=Leeds Area Quaker Meetings |url=http://www.leedsquakers.org.uk/meetings/ilkley |title=Ilkley Meeting | accessdate= 24 October 2020}}</ref> [[Churches Together in England|Churches Together in Ilkley]] exists to encourage co-operation amongst member churches.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ilkley.org/worship/ctininfo.htm |title=Churches Together in Ilkley: Information |publisher=Wharfedale Online Trust |access-date=8 January 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010153502/http://www.ilkley.org/worship/ctininfo.htm |archive-date=10 October 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The former Wesleyan Chapel at the junction of Skipton Road and Bolton Bridge Road was built in 1834 but in 1892 it became Ilkley's first museum. In 1914 it became a commercial garage and is now a cycle store.<ref>{{cite news|last=Redhead |first= J. |url= https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8746797.ilkley-building-was-once-a-museum-and-home-to-famous-preacher-in-the-19th-century/ |title=Ilkley building was once a museum and home to famous preacher in the 19th century |work=Telegraph and Argus|date= 20 December 2010| accessdate= 24 October 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Sutton |first= M. |url=https://cyclingindustry.news/wheelbase-takes-on-former-site-of-ilkley-cycles/ |title=Wheelbase takes on former site of Ilkley Cycles|work=Cycling Industry News|date= 12 January 2018| accessdate= 24 October 2020}}</ref>