Headingley Methodist Church, Vestry, Sunday School, Hall and Walls and Piers
HEADINGLEY METHODIST CHURCH, VESTRY, SUNDAY SCHOOL, HALL AND WALLS AND PIERS, OTLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375309
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Headingley Methodist Church, Vestry, Sunday School, Hall and Walls and Piers
- Statutory Address:
- HEADINGLEY METHODIST CHURCH, VESTRY, SUNDAY SCHOOL, HALL AND WALLS AND PIERS, OTLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375309
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Headingley Methodist Church, Vestry, Sunday School, Hall and Walls and Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- HEADINGLEY METHODIST CHURCH, VESTRY, SUNDAY SCHOOL, HALL AND WALLS AND PIERS, OTLEY ROAD
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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:
- HEADINGLEY METHODIST CHURCH, VESTRY, SUNDAY SCHOOL, HALL AND WALLS AND PIERS, OTLEY 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 27846 36210
Details
LEEDS
SE2736SE OTLEY ROAD, Headingley 714-1/61/811 (South West side) 22/09/75 Headingley Methodist Church, Vestry, Sunday School, Hall and walls and piers (Formerly Listed as: OTLEY ROAD, Headingley (West side) Headingley Methodist Church including Vestry, Sunday School and Church Hall)
GV II
Church with vestry, Sunday School, church hall and boundary wall with gate piers. 1840-45, extended 1862, altered late C19. Probably by James Simpson. Gallery, transepts and apse added 1862, west front remodelled 1890s; school buildings of late C19. MATERIALS: Coursed squared gritstone and ashlar, slate roof. STYLE: Gothic Revival. EXTERIOR: facade to Otley Road: gabled with pinnacles, centre projects with moulded pointed-arch doorway and corner buttresses and large pinnacles above, a stepped 3-light lancet and triangular cusped light with centre finial at apex. Flanking lancets to aisles; 2-light lancets to returns with shallow buttresses between; gabled transepts. Vestry, Sunday Schools and church hall to north (opening onto Chapel Street), gabled, one with 4-light stepped lancets with pointed arch dripmould, another gable with tripartite window of tall lancets with pilaster shafts between and quatrefoil opening in apex of gable above. Pointed-arch doorways, one with gabled portal. Corner vestry small with splayed corners, hipped roof and projecting gable with tripartite lancets. Wall with gate piers approx 50m long, from the gable of the school on Chapel Street across the front of the church; chamfered coping to low wall, railings missing; gate piers opposite the church entrance approx 1.5m high, plinth, monolithic piers and stepped capstones. INTERIOR: not inspected. The new Wesleyan Methodist church was built on the present site after opposition from the Earl of Cardigan, the earlier chapel having been in King Place (qv). The first Methodist chapel to be built in Leeds in the Gothic Revival style.
Listing NGR: SE2784636210
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466204
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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