Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656113

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Recommended Books

• 
  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)