Church of St Andrew Roundhay and Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1976. Church, Sunday School.
Church of St Andrew Roundhay and Sunday School
- WRENN ID
- spare-moulding-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds North East MP: Fabian Hamilton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1976
- Type
- Church, Sunday School
- Address
- Church of St Andrew Roundhay and Sunday School, Shaftesbury Avenue
- OS grid reference
- SE 321 383
- Coordinates
- 53.84043, -1.51217
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Andrew Roundhay and Sunday School is a United Reformed Church built in 1901 and 1907, designed by architect W.H. Beevers. It features rock-faced gritstone laid in diminishing courses and a red tile roof. The church is aligned almost north-south and consists of a nave, chancel, transepts, and a southwest tower, with the Sunday School attached to the east end.
In the Gothic Revival style, the exterior includes mostly segmental-headed two-light windows with Perpendicular tracery, while the north transept and west windows have pointed arches. The polygonal apse has a gable over the central three-light window, flanked by two-light windows. The tall, slim three-stage tower has set-back buttresses, a segmental-arched doorway with a corner stone laid by William Derry on October 26, 1907, and a plinth inscribed with "W H BEEVERS A.R.I.B.A. Architect." The tower features a clock in a hexagonal panel, blind panels with cusped heads on the second stage, and a tall two-light belfry with segmental moulded heads. Gabled buttresses rise to pinnacles above a moulded parapet.
The Sunday School is a single-storey structure with two bays, accessed by steps leading to an entrance with a stepped hoodmould. A memorial stone laid by T.H. Dodgshun in November 1901 is located to the right of the entrance. The Sunday School also has a large four-light window with Perpendicular tracery in a gabled projection and a small ogee-domed ventilator at the ridge center.
Inside, the church features a five-bay nave with an open timber roof and wooden panelling to the dado. The dais has a composite stone floor decorated with pink fleurs-de-lis. The east window depicts the parable of the Good Samaritan in memory of James Risk, who died in 1907, while the north transept contains a four-light Beatitudes window in memory of Mary Elizabeth Harrison Derry, who died in 1901.
Local climate
Church of St Andrew Roundhay and Sunday School receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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