Church of St Edmund
CHURCH OF ST EDMUND, LIDGETT PARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375090
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Edmund
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST EDMUND, LIDGETT PARK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375090
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Edmund
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST EDMUND, LIDGETT PARK ROAD
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 EDMUND, LIDGETT PARK ROAD
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 31975 38096
Details
SE 33 NW LEEDS LIDGETT PARK ROAD
(South East side), Lidgett Park
714-1/7/945
Church of St Edmund
05.08.1976
II
Anglican church. 1900. By W Carby Hall. Dressed stone, red tile roofs.
EXTERIOR: all windows with reticulated tracery, large 5-light Gothic Revival-style window in E end of chancel. N and S nave windows in depressed arch recesses between panelled buttresses. N and S porch at W end, stone, with heavy moulded pointed arches. The W end has projecting gable. Stone crosses over gable apexes of nave. Very large but squat unfinished SE tower, lower than nave, with pyramidal roof, diagonal battered buttresses terminating in their own tiled hipped roofs; the S side of the tower has 2-light segmental-headed recess containing Perpendicular traceried windows and carved niche between. Chapel on S side of chancel with octagonal stair
turret in angle, open traceried top stage, very short stone spire with finial.
INTERIOR: has 6 bay nave arcades with very tall double chamfered arches which die into the octagonal piers and responds with single shafts supporting each roof truss. Small 2-light clerestorey windows above. Narrow passage aisles with simple pointed arches. Fine quality wooden roof designed in imitation of stone vaulting. Recessed baptistary to west with tall double chamfered arch and octagonal alabaster font, of 1910, with brass relief panels set into the base representing the Nativity, the Martyrdom of St Edmund and the Baptism of Christ, plus ornate carved wooden font cover added 1914. Ornate carved alabaster pulpit with integral steps, ornate iron balusters and wooden tester donated in 1908 in memory of James Hare.Chancel raised with pointed moulded chancel arch and plain transept arches. Reredos, choir stalls and organ all have linen fold panelling.
Stained glass includes good contemporary glass some by James Powell & Sons.
(Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture: London: 1978-: 234).
Listing NGR: SE3197538096
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465970
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978), 234
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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