ST JAMES HOSPITAL CHAPEL

ST JAMES HOSPITAL CHAPEL, BECKETT STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1256267
Date first listed:: 22-Nov-1974
List Entry Name:: ST JAMES HOSPITAL CHAPEL
Statutory Address:: ST JAMES HOSPITAL CHAPEL, BECKETT STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1256267
Date first listed:: 22-Nov-1974
List Entry Name:: ST JAMES HOSPITAL CHAPEL
Statutory Address 1:: ST JAMES HOSPITAL CHAPEL, BECKETT 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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Location

Statutory Address:: ST JAMES HOSPITAL CHAPEL, BECKETT 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 31723 34679

Details

LEEDS

SE33SW BECKETT STREET, Sheepscar 714-1/11/1102 (West side) 22/11/74 St James' Hospital Chapel

GV II

Chapel. 1858-61. By Perkin and Backhouse of Leeds. Red brick and stone dressings, with decorative blue and white brickwork, slate roof (diminishing courses). PLAN: cruciform plan with apsidal 'east' end. Pedimented gables, cornice. Moulded round-arch Romanesque style windows. EXTERIOR: SE entrance front: steps up to paired round-headed doors in moulded stone arch, attached columns, blind arcade and rose window above, all in elaborate round-arched recess; flanking 2-light windows, moulded cornice to pediment. Tower in S angle with 3-light belfry, clock face above and slated spire; circular stair turret in E angle with round-arched doorway, round window, arcaded 'campanile' and conical roof. INTERIOR: much use of polychrome brickwork (black, red and white): 6-bay nave, carved stone corbels support open trusses with trefoil piercings; wide chancel arch, paired arches to transepts, all with carved capitals with flowers, birds and animals. Carved stone font, square base, attached columns, carved octagonal bowl; pulpit has red and white marble shafts, Gothic arcading to pierced panels, angel supporting book rest. On the N wall: plaque erected by Leeds Board of Guardians to commemorate the nurses of Leeds Township Infirmary who died during the First World War or during the epidemic of influenza, 1917-1918. The Leeds New Workhouse just to the NE was built in 1858, the chapel is probably contemporary; the premises were Leeds Township Infirmary by 1874. (RCHME: Report: St James's University Hospital: 1995-).

Listing NGR: SE3172334679

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Legacy System number:: 465070
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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St James's University Hospital Report, (1995)

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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.