Church of St George
CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, GREAT GEORGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256239
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St George
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, GREAT GEORGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256239
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St George
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, GREAT GEORGE 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:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE, GREAT GEORGE 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 29517 34008
Details
SE2934SE
714-1/74/195
26/09/63
LEEDS
GREAT GEORGE STREET
(North side)
Church of St George
GV
II
Anglican church. 1836-38. By John Clark. Apse added c1890, by
Henry Walker. Ashlar, slate roof. Gothic Revival style.
PLAN: nave and aisles of 8 bays, 3-stage west tower, spire
removed 1962; apse with traceried windows and crocketed
finials; built on a podium which housed the crypt and burial
vaults, with pointed-arch windows (C20 frames), and buttresses
between.
EXTERIOR: west end: steep flight of stone steps flanked by
octagonal moulded piers rise to walkway over the podium; the
tower has diagonal buttresses and west entrance with ogee
crocketed arch dripmould, 3-light plate tracery window above;
clock at 3rd stage. Tall lancet windows to aisles have
hoodmoulds. Plain parapet, shallow pitch roof. East end: a
wall approx 3m high and with octagonal crenellated piers
screens 2 straight flights of steps: those to left rise to
walk way over podium, those to right rise to a pointed-arch
doorway at NE corner of church.
INTERIOR: galleries removed 1989 during refurbishment; apse
with large painted panel by Charles Cope, RA, 'All Nations
looking unto Christ'; a memorial window centre of S wall has
some original stained glass in medallions and was a memorial
to Christopher Beckett, 'one of the principal founders', (see
below).
Queen-post roof spanning full width has carved details and
Gothic arches. Undercroft has shallow segmental vaults which
retain original divisions for the stone coffin shelves which
were removed c1962; chamfered round-arched openings from
burial vault area to west end of crypt.
The church was built on part of Christopher Beckett's Mount
Pleasant estate as part of the development of the Clarendon
Road-Woodhouse Square area by the Atkinsons c1825-40 for which
John Clark designed several large houses, all in Greek style.
The undercroft contained 700 stone recesses for coffins, there
was no graveyard, and 300 were occupied in 1962. The
undercroft was first altered by the vicar, Don Robins (d.1948)
who established a refuge and advice centre for unemployed men
in the 1930s.
(Beresford, M: East End, West End: 1988-: 337; Victorian
Society Walk No 4: Douglas, J & Powell, K: Leeds: Three
Architectural Walks, 2nd Edition: 1988-: 16; Francis, A: Out of the Dust: 1985-: 37).
Listing NGR: SE2951734009
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465135
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Beresford, M W, East End West End The Face of Leeds During Urbanisation 1684 to 1842, (1988), 337
Francis, A, Out of the Dust, (1985), 37
Douglas, J, Powell, K, Victorian Society Walks in Leeds Three Architectural Walks, (1988), 16
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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