"The Church Built in a Day"

Early on June 11, 1906, volunteers from St. Barnabas Church (Chester), led by the Rev. Frank Vipond, began construction here of a wooden church. That evening, a service was held in the new building. Named St. Andrew's for the Anglican Brotherhood of St. Andrew, it became, in 1914, the parish church for the incorporated Village of Todmorden, the name for this area since the 1850's. In 1930, part of the parish was ceded to a new St. Luke's Church and, in 1936, the two were amalgamated. The "Church Built in a Day" was dismantled c. 1938.