Coptic Orthodox Church of St Mary and St Abanoub
Coptic Orthodox Church of St Mary and St Abanoub, Arthington Lane, Arthington, Otley, LS21 1LP
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1251086
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Coptic Orthodox Church of St Mary and St Abanoub
- Statutory Address:
- Coptic Orthodox Church of St Mary and St Abanoub, Arthington Lane, Arthington, Otley, LS21 1LP
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2006-08-13
- Reference:
- IOE01/15453/03
- Rights:
- © Krystyna Szulecka. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1251086
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Coptic Orthodox Church of St Mary and St Abanoub
- Statutory Address 1:
- Coptic Orthodox Church of St Mary and St Abanoub, Arthington Lane, Arthington, Otley, LS21 1LP
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Coptic Orthodox Church of St Mary and St Abanoub, Arthington Lane, Arthington, Otley, LS21 1LP
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Arthington
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 27628 44672
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 6 April 2021 to update name and address and reformat the text to current standards
SE 24 SE
6/84
ARTHINGTON
ARTHINGTON LANE LS 21 (south side)
Coptic Orthodox Church of St Mary and St Abanoub
(Formerly listed as Church of St. Peter)
22/11/1966
II
Church. 1864, by Messrs Mallinson and Healy of Bradford for William M. Sheepshanks of Arthington Hall. Rock-faced sandstone, slate roof. Gothic style. Nave with north west tower, north and south transepts, chancel.
Three-stage tower, incorporating porch, has angle-pilasters, narrow two centred-arched north doorway with roll-moulded head and short set-in shafts which have stiff-leaf capitals, a lancet to the second stage, two-centred-arched belfry windows each of two cusped louvered lights, with shafts like those of the doorway, corbel table, and broach spire, with lucarnes on slender shafts. West gable of nave has a five-bay arcade with similar shafts, cusped windows in the first, third and fifth lights, blind windows in the others, a wheel window above. Nave has two plate-traceried two-light windows in each side; transepts have two larger plate-traceried two-light windows; two-bay chancel has two-light windows with bar tracery, and a four-light east window with multifoils in the head. All these windows are linked by moulded sill and impost bands carried round the whole, and this feature is repeated in the interior, which has transept and chancel arches with deeply-undercut roll-moulding in the soffits, and shafts with stiff-leaf capitals, the continuous band stepped round square imposts above these capitals; arch-braced collar truss roof; various brass wall monuments to members of the Sheepshanks family of Arthington Hall (q.v.) (and first vicar was Thomas Sheepshanks).
Listing NGR: SE2762844672
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433696
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Leach, P, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North, (2009), 103
Websites
Leeds Intelligencer, Saturday 27 August 1864, accessed 24/11/2017 from https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000193/18640827/056/0008
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 07-Jun-2026 at 12:37:52.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.