Church of St Augustine at Wrangthorn
CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE AT WRANGTHORN, HYDE PARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255576
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Augustine at Wrangthorn
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE AT WRANGTHORN, HYDE PARK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255576
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Augustine at Wrangthorn
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE AT WRANGTHORN, HYDE PARK ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST AUGUSTINE AT WRANGTHORN, HYDE PARK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 28899 35452
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465889
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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