Headingley Methodist Church, Vestry, Sunday School, Hall And Walls And Piers

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