Church Of St John The Evangelist

LEEDS

SE33NW HARROGATE ROAD, Moor Allerton 714-1/7/988 (West side) Church of St John the Evangelist

GV II

Anglican church. 1853, enlarged 1889. By Joseph Thompson. Coursed squared gritstone, grey slate roof. PLAN: 3-bay nave, 2-bay chancel, 3-stage W tower with broach spire; 1889 transepts, vestry and organ chamber. Gothic Revival style. EXTERIOR: lancet windows and stepped buttresses to nave, 2-light chancel windows, 5-light at E end very plain with ashlar panels and hoodmould. 3-light transept windows; tower has S door in Gothic arch with hoodmould and head stops, quatrefoil windows to 2nd stage, paired belfry windows, lucarne windows to spire. Stepped buttresses, moulded strings, gable copings and cross finials. INTERIOR: wide arches to transepts and chancel, short attached columns with foliate caps, painted ceiling panels, scissor-brace roof trusses. Quatrefoil marble font, brass eagle lectern dated 1889. One of the 13 churches and 10 chapels built in Leeds 1840-53; the land was given by Sir Thomas Beckett. (A brief history of the Church of St John the Evangelist: 1978-).

Listing NGR: SE3070739307