COMMUNITY CENTRE, CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW

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-Sep-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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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1256157
Date first listed:: 26-Sep-1963
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: COMMUNITY CENTRE, CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW
Statutory Address 1:: COMMUNITY CENTRE, CHURCH OF ST MATTHEW, ST MATTHEWS STREET

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.

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

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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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)

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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

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Legacy System number:: 465232
Legacy System:: LBS

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Webster, C, 'Thoresby Society Publication' in RD Chantrell Architect His Life and Work in Leeds 1818-47, ()

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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.