Description

LEEDS

SE2835SE HYDE PARK ROAD, Hyde Park
714-1/70/875 (West side)
05/08/76 Church of St Augustine at Wrangthorn
(Formerly Listed as:
HYDE PARK ROAD, Hyde Park
Church of St Augustine)

GV II

Anglican church. 1870-71. By James Barlow Fraser. Rock-faced
gritstone, ashlar details, slate roof. Gothic Revival style.
EXTERIOR: tall SE tower of 3 stages with shallow corner
buttresses, tall paired lancets and carved corbels in the form
of angels and grotesques to 2nd stage and octagonal
bell-stage, large open pinnacles, surmounted by tall stone
spire. Entrances at base of tower and S porch: board double
doors with strap hinges in deeply moulded arch, gablet over.
Decorated window tracery, the E and W windows of 5 lights.
Clerestory. Low N and S aisles with 3-light windows, N and S
chapels, nave, chancel, S porch. The spire is a landmark in
the area.
INTERIOR: 5-bay nave with floor of red and black tiles,
polished marble cylindrical columns, foliate capitals,
chamfered pointed arches, electric light fittings with central
orb and pendant bulbs with stylised leaf motifs, low original
pews with umbrella holders, font in SW corner with marble
shafts and octagonal bowl with angels, wooden domed cover with
wrought-iron cross and gilded boss pulley balance.
Shallow 2-bay transepts with square pulpit of inlaid marble on
square and cylindrical squat columns; chancel arch with short
black marble shafts; 3-bay chancel with polychrome-tile floor,
painted vaulted wooden ceiling, choir stalls with plaque in
memory of James Boultbee, first vicar of Wrangthorn 1866-1908.
Brass altar rail, eagle lectern, reredos of pink veined marble
in Gothic Revival style with central mosaic of the Last Supper
and raised lettering: 'IN.THE.REVERENCE.OF.GOD. AND IN MEMORY
OF.JOHN.AND.HARRIET.FRASER', dated 1882, flanking panels with
bible passages.
East window depicting Life of Christ, in memory of John
Fraser, civil engineer of Leeds, died September 1881. A
painting by JL Adams in 1883 shows wall paintings over chancel
arch and on the walls, and brass candelabra hanging from the
nave arches.

Listing NGR: SE2889935452

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Augustine at Wrangthorn at Wikipedia
• Church of St Augustine at Wrangthorn official website
• Wikidata Q26547155

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