Until the middle of the nineteenth century Ossett was part of the parish of Dewsbury. It did, however, have its own chapel in the Market Place cared for by a curate. It was thanks to the energy of one curate, the Reverend Kilvington, that the chapel was rebuilt in 1807. By the time North Ossett became a parish independent of Dewsbury in 1858, Kilvington’s chapel was looking old fashioned, the ‘Wakefield Express’ describing it as ‘a very bad specimen of the Italian style’. As a result, funds were raised for a new church and the old church was demolished in 1866.