Description

LEEDS

SE23NE OTLEY ROAD, Far Headingley
714-1/6/667 (West side (off))
26/09/63 Church of St Chad

GV II*

Anglican church. 1868, altered 1910. By Edmund Beckett Denison
later 1st Lord Grimthorpe, and WH Crossland; 'east' end
rebuilt and lady chapel and organ chamber added 1910,
architects J and JH Gibbons. Coursed squared gritstone,
snecked walling to 1910 work, red tile roofs, wrought-iron
railings and lamp posts. Gothic Revival style.
PLAN: aligned N-S, nave with clerestory and low aisles, side
chapel, 4-stage tower and porch with steps flanked by railing
and lamps at N end, alterations at S (altar) end.
EXTERIOR: board door in porch has scrolled strap hinges; S
aisle has 2-light windows with quatrefoil or trefoil over,
lancet windows; pinnacled tower with slender octagonal spire.
'East' end buttressed, with tall paired arches and central
pilaster with foundation stone carved with floriate cross and
'anno dom mcmix' in low relief, crucifix under gable above;
window of 1,3,1 lights.
INTERIOR: circular columns with Decorated-style capitals of
carved foliage, narrow pointed arches, extend through nave to
chancel. Baptistry below tower has mosaic paving, steps, rails
and oak panelling of 1896, the font is sandstone, low
clustered columns and bowl carved with 8-petal flowers; brass
eagle lectern given 1875; pulpit of carved oak with figure of
St Chad holding a church, given 1914; reredos designed by JH
Gibbons and made by Messrs. Boulton and Son 1909: carved
canopy above God in Majesty with figures in adoration
including an earthly king, Virgin Mary, a bishop, also panels
of scripture and symbols of the Evangelists with angels.
East window designed and made by Miss ME Aldrich Rope of
Chelsea, dedicated 1922: theme of the Redemption of Creation.
The mosaic reredos of the original apsidal end is mounted on
the wall of the nave: Agnus Dei and winged angels with
inscription 'Sursum Corda' ('lift up your hearts').

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Chad's Church, Far Headingley at Wikipedia
• St Chad's Church, Far Headingley official website
• Wikidata Q7592783

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)