CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, HEADINGLEY LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1255967
Date first listed:: 26-Sep-1963
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, HEADINGLEY LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1255967
Date first listed:: 26-Sep-1963
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, HEADINGLEY LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, HEADINGLEY LANE

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District:: Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 28011 35957

Details

LEEDS

SE2835NW HEADINGLEY LANE, Headingley 714-1/64/777 (South West side) 26/09/63 Church of St Michael

GV II*

Anglican church. 1884-5. By JL Pearson. In Gothic Revival style. Coursed squared gritstone, tiled roofs. PLAN: nave with large clerestory, chancel, N and S transepts, N and S aisles. EXTERIOR: tall W tower with thin broach spire and pinnacles. Turreted E gable of chancel, 2 tiers of 3 lancet windows. West end: shallow porch between buttresses has double doors with decorative hinges, attached triple columns, dogtooth mouldings, statue of St Michael in apex of pitched roof; 4-light window with quatrefoil tracery, 3-stage tower above has paired 2-light windows and tall stone-louvred belfry stage. INTERIOR: 3-bay nave, shallow transepts, 3-bay chancel. Nave has cylindrical columns, attached columns on inner face of walling rise between clerestory windows to plain chamfered arches which divide the timber roof. Red and black tiled nave floor, wooden blocks to seating areas, polychrome marble floor to chancel. Alabaster octagonal font with carved biblical scenes on short granite columns; alabaster pulpit by Pearson has preaching figures and similar short columns; wrought-iron screen to chancel and S aisle chapel; lectern with polychrome marble base and brass figures of lions and angels, by Hardman Powel and Co., Birmingham, the inscription 'TO THE GLORY OF GOD, EASTER 1889'; reredos by Temple Moore, 1905 is of carved, gilded and painted wood with figures of Christ in Glory flanked by St George and St Michael and surrounded by saints of the early English church. A brass plaque at the W end of the church records that the memorial stone was laid 29 September 1884 by the Bishop of Ripon, the church was consecrated 8 July 1886, the top stone of the spire fixed 22 October 1890 and the reredos was dedicated 14 December 1905. A large, impressive church.

Listing NGR: SE2801135957

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Legacy System number:: 465404
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.