Buy this photo on Getty Images : Getty Images Saltaire United Reformed Church (originally Saltaire Congregational Church) is a church at Saltaire, West Yorkshire, England. Commissioned and paid for by Titus Salt in the mid 19th century, the church is a Grade I listed building and sits within the Saltaire Unesco World Heritage Site. When Titus Salt, a devoted member of the Congregational church, commenced the design and construction of his model village at Saltaire, a Congregational church was the first public building commissioned. Salt donated the land and paid for the cost of the church himself, a cost of £16,000 (equivalent to £1,452,182 in 2015). The church was designed, as was the rest of Saltaire, by the Bradford based architect partnership of Lockwood and Mawson in the Italianate Classical style. Since 1972 the Church has been known as Saltaire United Reformed Church following the merger of Congregational Church in England and Wales and the Presbyterian Church of England. The foundation stone of the church was laid by Caroline Salt (wife of Titus) in 1856 and the church was opened in 1859. On the south side of the nave is the Salt family mausoleum where Sir Titus Salt was buried after his death in 1876. The existing organ, built by Peter Conacher and Co. of Huddersfield, was installed in 1890, rebuilt at the end of the Second World War, and again in 1991 by Michael Fletcher, a local organ builder, now the church organist. Submitted: 04/07/2016 Accepted: 07/07/2016 Published: - Telegraph Media Group Limited (United Kingdom (Great Britain)) 11-Sep-2019 - ViacomCBS Promo (NEW YORK) 23-Feb-2023