Editing Wetherby (section)

==Religion==
[[File:St James' Church, Wetherby in October 2008.jpg|thumb|right|St James' Church in Wetherby, the town's largest church]]

There are five churches in Wetherby.<ref name="churchestog">{{cite web |title=Wetherby Churches Together |url=http://www.ctiw.org/ |access-date= 4 August 2007}}</ref>
The parish church is dedicated to [[St James' Parish Church, Wetherby|St James]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stjameswetherby.org.uk/ |title=St James |website=www.stjameswetherby.org.uk |access-date=13 December 2018}}</ref> and its daughter church ''The Church on the Corner'' meets in the old Cemetery Chapel on Hallfield Lane.

There is a [[Wetherby Methodist Church|Methodist church]] on Bank Street, a Baptist church and the Community Church of the Salvation Army.
St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church's building was opened in 1986 and won the Leeds award for Architecture in 1987.<ref name="stjoseph">{{cite web |title=St. Joseph's Parish Wetherby |url=http://www.stjosephs-wetherby.org/ |access-date= 4 August 2007}}</ref>  Two smaller Catholic churches in [[Bardsey, West Yorkshire|Bardsey]] and [[Sicklinghall]] operate as satellite churches and do not have their own ministers.

The Baptist church was originally Anglican and was known as ''Barleyfields Church''. Early in 2009, it became part of the Baptist Union of Great Britain. It met originally in the Barleyfields Centre, but moved to Deighton Gates School in September 2009.