Church Of St Andrew Roundhay And Sunday School

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SE33NW SHAFTESBURY AVENUE, Roundhay 714-1/7/1065 (West side) 05/08/76 Church of St Andrew Roundhay and Sunday School (Formerly Listed as: SHAFTESBURY AVENUE, Lidgett Park St Andrews Roundhay United Reformed Church)

GV II

United Reform Church and Sunday School. Dated 1901 and 1907 (foundation stone). By WH Beevers. Rock-faced gritstone laid in diminishing courses, red tile roof. PLAN: church aligned almost N-S, nave, chancel, transepts and 'SW' tower. Sunday School attached to the E (north) end. Gothic Revival style. Orientations below are ritual. EXTERIOR: mostly segmental-headed 2-light windows with Perpendicular tracery, the N transept and 5-light W windows have pointed arches. Polygonal apse with gable over centre 3-light window, flanked by 2-light. Tall but slim 3-stage tower with set-back buttresses, segmental-arched doorway with corner stone to left laid by William Derry, 26 October 1907, on plinth below: 'W H BEEVERS A.R.I.B.A. Architect'. Clock in hexagonal panel and blind panels with cusped heads to 2nd stage, tall 2-light belfry with segmental moulded heads; gabled buttresses rise to pinnacles with flat heads above moulded parapet. Sunday School, 1 storey, 2 bays; steps up to entrance with stepped hoodmould right, memorial stone to right laid by TH Dodgshun, President of the Leeds Congregational Council, November 1901. Large 4-light window with Perpendicular tracery in gabled projection right, small ogee-domed ventilator on ridge centre. INTERIOR: church has 5-bay nave with open timber roof, wooden panelling to dado, dais has composite stone floor with pink fleurs-de-lis. East window depicts parable of the Good Samaritan, in memory of James Risk d.1907; N transept 4-light Beatitudes window in memory of Mary Elizabeth Harrison Derry d.1901.

Listing NGR: SE3219838350