Description

LEEDS

SE2935 ST MARK'S ROAD, Woodhouse Carr
714-1/24/1268 (North side)
05/08/76 Church of St Mark

GV II

Anglican church. 1823-26, altered 1873. By Peter Atkinson
Junior and RH Sharp. Alterations to tower and window tracery
1873 by RL Adams and J Kelly. Coursed squared stone and
ashlar, slate roof.
PLAN: west tower of 3 stages, 6-bay nave and chancel with side
aisles. A commissioners' church in Gothic Revival style.
EXTERIOR: tower: west door, 3-light windows to 2nd stage,
paired 2-light belfry windows with Perpendicular tracery,
angle buttresses with gabled heads surmounted by tall
octagonal pinnacles, embattled parapet. W entrance to S aisle
has double board doors in moulded arch; aisles have
Perpendicular traceried windows, buttresses between surmounted
by octagonal pinnacles and plain parapet with moulded coping.
5-light E window. The tops of the pinnacles are stored inside
the church.
INTERIOR: a continuous nave and chancel with one step up to
choir and 2 up to the sanctuary; aisles with vestry and organ
at E end of N aisle and a side chapel at E end of S aisle.
Plain and polychrome tile floors, quatrefoil columns, moulded
rib vault with bosses, cast-iron columns support added W end
gallery (perhaps of 1873); the reredos is a carved stone blind
arcade of 7 crocketed arches, the central 3 framing the altar
recess. A fine carved oak organ case with angels blowing
trumpets, in memory of Joseph Ogdin March of Beech Grove
House, Leeds, 1889. Short marble shafts support octagonal
pulpit with traceried panels, memorial to ministry of Revd JS
Abbott, 1891. Painted stone font: octagonal, figures of angels
holding shields, quatrefoil panels and Christian symbols, a
carved inscription around the bowl records the donation by
Charles Gascoigne Maclea, 1853. On the N wall of the nave a
wide crocketed arch with plaque carved with ivy leaves
commemorates William Schofield, d.1857, nephew of John
Coultate, d.1864, and John's 2 sisters, Hannah Craven (d.1860)
and Alice (d. 1863).
St Mark's was one of 3 Commissioner churches built in the
populous areas of Leeds, the other 2 have been demolished.
(Beresford M: East End, West End: Face of Leeds During
Urbanisation 1684-1842: Leeds: 1988-: 359).

Listing NGR: SE2950735167

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Mark at Wikipedia
• Church of St Mark official website
• Wikidata Q26547685

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