Church Of All Souls With Boundary Wall And War Memorial

The Church of All Souls is an Anglican church built between 1876 and 1880, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott. It is a building of group value, recognized for its architectural and historical significance. The church is constructed from coursed gritstone with ashlar quoins, and has a slate roof. It is designed in the Gothic Revival style.

The building plan includes a 6-bay nave, a 3-bay chancel, side aisles, a clerestory, and a large 4-stage tower at the northwest corner with a pierced parapet, a short pyramidal spire, and an octagonal stair turret. The south porch features fine cast-iron gates, a niche with a Gothic arch above, and double doors with elaborate scrolled hinges. A foundation stone on the north side of the west door commemorates Walter Farquar Hook, former Vicar of Leeds, and William Page Baron Hatherley, referencing their dates and roles. Single lancet windows are found in the aisles, buttresses are present between them, and the clerestory features 3-light windows. Lancet windows are also located at the east and west ends.

The interior features nave piers that alternate between octagonal and cylindrical forms. The nave is covered by a painted wooden ribbed barrel vault, while the chancel has a stone ribbed vault. Patterned mosaic floors are present, alongside marble steps leading to the choir and sacristy. A reredos depicting Christ in Glory above scenes from the Entombment is featured, incorporating cusped arches, flanking arcading, a 3-arch piscina, and sedilia. The pulpit is constructed of black marble columns and carved figures of a prophet and the Good Shepherd. A fine carved oak organ case, inscribed in Latin and adorned with tracery and angels, is also present. A brass eagle lectern, with three lions at its base, commemorates Anna Felicia Hook, dated 1880. The font, located in the tower baptistry, is made from fossiliferous marble and includes steps and columns. It is covered by carved wood with doors painted by Susan Emily Ford in 1891, which incorporate gilded tracery and crocketed finials. Fine stained glass, including the east window dated circa 1880 and depicting figures of saints and prophets, is also present. An early illustration shows the church interior shortly after construction, revealing the absence of benches in the nave.

A boundary wall runs along the roadside, approximately 35 meters in length and 0.75 meters high, with stepped pointed coping. It extends from the tower to a former gateway, from which the piers and gates are now missing. A war memorial stands against the church's south wall, consisting of a square stone base with an inscription on a bronze plaque, a plinth with corner columns, a wooden cross supporting a bronze figure, and a pitched roof over the cross.