Church Of St John The Evangelist

The Church of St John the Evangelist is an Anglican church located on Harrogate Road in Moor Allerton, built in 1853 and enlarged in 1889 by architect Joseph Thompson. It is constructed from coursed squared gritstone and features a grey slate roof. The church has a plan that includes a 3-bay nave, a 2-bay chancel, and a 3-stage west tower topped with a broach spire. The 1889 additions include transepts, a vestry, and an organ chamber, all designed in the Gothic Revival style.

The exterior showcases lancet windows and stepped buttresses on the nave, with 2-light windows in the chancel and a very plain 5-light window at the east end, which includes ashlar panels and a hoodmould. The transept windows are 3-light, while the tower features a south door in a Gothic arch with a hoodmould and head stops, along with quatrefoil windows on the second stage, paired belfry windows, and lucarne windows in the spire. Additional details include stepped buttresses, moulded strings, gable copings, and cross finials.

Inside, the church has wide arches leading to the transepts and chancel, with short attached columns that have foliate caps. The ceiling panels are painted, and the roof features scissor-brace trusses. Notable interior elements include a quatrefoil marble font and a brass eagle lectern dated 1889. The church is one of 13 churches and 10 chapels built in Leeds between 1840 and 1853, with the land donated by Sir Thomas Beckett.