Adult Education Centre, University Of Leeds

Priory and hostel, now adult education centre. Built between 1908 and 1928 by Temple Moore for the Community of the Resurrection. The building is constructed in red and brown brick with stone plinth and dressings beneath a tile roof, designed in Tudor style.

The building is planned as a U-shape on ground that rises from east to west. The central feature is a four-storey entrance and staircase block in the form of a gatehouse tower. Stone steps lead up to studded double doors set within a chamfered four-centred Tudor arch, with shields carved with the initials 'CR' in the spandrels. Above the doors is a heavy moulded string course, an angel with shield, and a three-light traceried staircase window. The tower has embattled parapets, flanking multi-flue stacks, and octagonal corner turrets with a bellcote.

To the right extends a two-storey chapel range across five bays, with buttresses between traceried four-light and cross windows on the ground floor and arched windows of two and three trefoil-headed lights above. To the left stands a two-storey refectory and dormitory range with an attic over basement. This range features an arched entrance on the left side, mullioned and cross windows, and an M-shaped roof with six gabled dormers above the eaves and stacks positioned forward of the ridge. Rear wings at each end of the front range echo the similar style, with bay windows facing the courtyard and service and carriage entrances on the slightly recessed south-east side. Throughout, windows are leaded in cast-iron frames, with casements fitted with pierced handles.

The entrance hall contains stone steps rising to an arcaded raised ground floor with corridors extending the full length of the building, lit from the courtyard. A stone staircase with quatrefoil piercings to the stairwell walls stands at the angle with the rear wings. The north wing's end room contains a fireplace with stone surround and a plaster panel depicting the Madonna and Child surrounded by angels and a wreath of fruit and flowers, together with a bay window. Principal rooms throughout have studded oak doors. The left corridor features clothes presses and cupboards of oak with iron hinges and fittings, with stone surrounds to fireplaces and a store room retaining original shelving and cresting.

The central main stone staircase rises to a landing with carved doorway surrounds, providing access to the chapel (now a lecture room) on the right and the refectory (now a refreshment room) on the left. The chapel retains a carved oak screen incorporating seats and a gallery above. At the north-west end is a five-light gable window with stained glass depicting the Madonna flanked by saints. The chapel also contains an aumbry, piscina, niche, and a doorway in a recess leading to rear stairs and the wing. The refectory features a medieval-style stone fireplace at its raised entrance end (the dais) with a carved panel depicting the Agnus Dei and angels. At the lower end is a service hatch and doorway to service rooms and stairs.

The Community of the Resurrection, an Anglican monastic order founded by Charles Gore in 1892, constructed this hostel to provide accommodation for candidates who could not afford Oxford or Cambridge and wished to enter the priesthood by reading for theology degrees at Leeds University. Temple Lushington Moore died in 1920, and his son-in-law and partner Leslie Moore completed the building work. The University purchased the building in 1976.