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Latitude: 53.7979 / 53°47'52"N
Longitude: -1.5438 / 1°32'37"W
OS Eastings: 430146
OS Northings: 433612
OS Grid: SE301336
Mapcode National: GBR BJL.YB
Mapcode Global: WHC9D.8S3S
Plus Code: 9C5WQFX4+5F
Entry Name: 5, Albion Place
Listing Date: 26 September 1963
Last Amended: 11 September 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1256656
English Heritage Legacy ID: 464687
Also known as: Leeds Church Institute and Sunday School Association
Leeds Church Institute
The Church Institute
ID on this website: 101256656
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1
County: Leeds
Electoral Ward/Division: City and Hunslet
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Leeds
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Leeds City
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Institute Commercial building Gothic Revival
LEEDS
SE3033NW ALBION PLACE
714-1/76/5 (North side)
26/09/63 No.5
(Formerly Listed as:
ALBION PLACE
(North side)
No.5
Church Institute)
GV II
Church institute, now shops. 1866-68, converted c1982. By
Richard Adams and John Kelly. Polychrome brick with ashlar
dressings and stone ornament, steeply-pitched slate gabled
roof with ornate octagonal ventilator and spire. Gothic
Revival style.
Corner site with Lands Lane, 2 storeys and basement. South
front: gabled porch incorporates flanking buttresses; 5 gables
each with a tall Decorated window and buttresses between,
stone tracery and dressings. Ground floor: projecting c1980
apsidal shop windows set within remodelled openings (formerly
segmentally arched). Right return (to Lands Lane): huge
traceried Gothic window and flanking panels.
Richard Adams' earliest known Leeds building; he was architect
to the Leeds School Board from 1873, designed several
churches, d.1883; his practice was continued by his partner,
John Kelly.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: The Church Institute and Sunday School
Association was established in 1857 to unite churchmen in an
endeavour to extend religious and secular knowledge.
The original interior contained a lecture hall for 700-800
persons, seating for tea meetings for 250-300, and a reading
room and library of 10,000 volumes. Wall frescoes represented
St Oswald planting the cross, St Gregory, St Augustine and
medallions of the saints and ecclesiastical banners were
suspended from the roof. Exterior and interior illustrated in
The Builder.
(Kelly's Directory of Leeds: 1899-: 21; The Builder).
Listing NGR: SE3014633612
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