Bethel First United Church of Jesus Christ
BETHEL FIRST UNITED CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST, VICTORIA ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255770
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Bethel First United Church of Jesus Christ
- Statutory Address:
- BETHEL FIRST UNITED CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST, VICTORIA ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255770
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1982
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Bethel First United Church of Jesus Christ
- Statutory Address 1:
- BETHEL FIRST UNITED CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST, VICTORIA ROAD
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:
- BETHEL FIRST UNITED CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST, VICTORIA ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 28755 35460
Details
LEEDS
SE2835SE VICTORIA ROAD, Hyde Park 714-1/70/879 (South side) 30/04/82 Bethel First United Church of Jesus Christ (Formerly Listed as: VICTORIA STREET, Hyde Park (South side) Bethel United Methodist Church)
GV II
Church. 1886. Sandstone with gritstone dressings; brick and timber with stone details on E and S sides, slate roof. Gothic Revival style. PLAN: a large church with a hemmed in but lofty street elevation, the body of the church set on a splayed angle with basement to rear. EXTERIOR: 2-bay portal approached by steep steps, shafted and pointed trelobe arches, applied gable with diaperwork and rosettes. Large 5-light window above with quatrefoil tracery, steep gable overall, flanking buttresses capped by tall pinnacles. This centrepiece is flanked by very narrow buttressed bays, that to NE abutted by a narrow square tower with louvred bell stage, corner pinnacles and rising above, a 3-stage slated timber spire. The foundation stones, one at the base of each buttress, are dated 28 July 1886 and were laid by, from left to right: Mrs Harry Walker of Leeds, Mrs James Mathers of Leeds, Richard Ellis Esq. JP Mayor of Harrogate, William Mart Esq of Leeds, and Mrs James Wheatley of Leeds. Right return: brick with flush ashlar 2- and 3-light windows with trefoils, shallow roof below narrow clerestory which is entirely timber-framed with quatrefoil lights; transept crossing wing with 4-light mullioned windows with trefoil heads to 2nd floor. INTERIOR: the main doors open into a lobby with doors left and right to gallery stairs and offices; steps up to an ornate composite floor decorated with fleurs-de-lis, the coved ceiling has raised panels of vine scrolls; a timber partition with fine stained glass (bird and flower motifs) separates the lobby from the galleried meeting room with cast-iron columns and inserted ceiling. A stained-glass window in the E wall commemorates William Mart, 1840-1897 one of the founders of the church. Original pews and dais with carved Gothic Revival style balustrade. Gallery not inspected.
Listing NGR: SE2875535460
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465667
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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