There has been a water supply to Pontefract Market Place since the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. A conduit is first referred to in 1571. This pump which replaced it was mentioned in 1765 and may have been installed when the present Buttercross was built in 1734. City of Wakefield Planning Committee 1979

Market Place, Pontefract, United Kingdom

Merchant's Warehouse. This half-timbered building is part of a merchant's house on Cornmarket, built from 15th to 17th century. The market bell once hung on the front of the building. Leonard Healaighe, Mayor of Pontefract (1565-1601), lived here.

, Pontefract, United Kingdom

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St. Joseph's. Built in 1806 before the Catholic Emancipation of 1829. Replaces mission church St. Michael of Carleton Green, founded about 1685 by Father Hammerton S.J. of Purston

St. Joseph's Church, Pontefract, United Kingdom

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