Community Centre, Church of St Matthew
COMMUNITY CENTRE, CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, ST MATTHEWS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256157
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Community Centre, Church of St Matthew
- Statutory Address:
- COMMUNITY CENTRE, CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, ST MATTHEWS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256157
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Community Centre, Church of St Matthew
- Statutory Address 1:
- COMMUNITY CENTRE, CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, ST MATTHEWS STREET
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:
- COMMUNITY CENTRE, CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, ST MATTHEWS STREET
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 29139 32210
Details
LEEDS
SE2932 ST MATTHEW'S STREET, Holbeck 714-1/42/851 (East side) 26/09/63 Community Centre, Church of St Matthew (Formerly Listed as: ST MATTHEW'S STREET, Holbeck Church of St Matthew)
GV II
Anglican church, now community centre. 1829-32, spire added mid C19, converted C20. By RD Chantrell. For the Church Commissioners. Coursed gritstone ashlar, slate roof. PLAN: nave, chancel, N and S aisles, no clerestory, west tower. EXTERIOR: tall lancets to aisles. Geometrical traceried east window in chancel. Plain pinnacles at corners. West tower with broach spire and pinnacles. INTERIOR: a 7-bay body with gallery on 3 sides supported on thin cast-iron columns and projections at E and W ends for chancel and tower respectively; the spaces left in the corners were filled by vestries or staircases and these were given lower roofs to add visual interest. The church held 1,200 worshippers and cost »3,734 18s 4 1/2d. One of 4 churches designed to a similar plan at this time; it belongs to the second group of Commissioner churches, built in Early English style which was cheaper than the Decorated Gothic of the first phase. (Thoresby Society Publication, 2nd Series, Volume 2: Webster C: RD Chantrell, Architect: his life and work in Leeds 1818-47).
Listing NGR: SE2913932210
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465232
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Webster, C, Thoresby Society Publication in RD Chantrell Architect His Life and Work in Leeds 1818-47, ()
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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