ABSTRACT
At Saltaire in Yorkshire, Titus Salt, manufacturer of woollens and worsteds and Liberal MP for Bradford from 1859 to 1861, constructed in the 1850s a model village for his workforce. At its heart, directly opposite the mill, stands the Congregational Church, a grandiose neoclassical building clearly asserting the dominance of Salt’s patriarchal Nonconformity in the social and moral order he wished to reinforce. The dominant chapel and mill were complemented by an institute for the educational cultivation of the workforce. The village was laid out on a grid plan in which streets named after members of the Salt family intersect with others commemorating royalty. Larger houses for foremen and mill management were interspersed with the smaller houses for the workforce, thus ensuring that the hierarchy of the mill was maintained in the street.
