Church Of St Chad

The Church of St Chad is an Anglican church located on Otley Road in Far Headingley, Leeds. It was built in 1868 and altered in 1910. The architects for the original design were Edmund Beckett Denison, later known as the 1st Lord Grimthorpe, and W.H. Crossland. The 1910 alterations, which included the rebuilding of the east end and the addition of a lady chapel and organ chamber, were carried out by architects J. and J.H. Gibbons. The church is constructed of coursed squared gritstone with snecked walling for the 1910 work, and features red tile roofs along with wrought-iron railings and lamp posts. It is designed in the Gothic Revival style.

The church is aligned north-south and consists of a nave with a clerestory, low aisles, a side chapel, a four-stage tower, and a porch at the north end, which is flanked by railings and lamps. The exterior includes a board door in the porch with scrolled strap hinges, while the south aisle features two-light windows with quatrefoil or trefoil designs above and lancet windows. The tower is pinnacled with a slender octagonal spire. The east end is buttressed and has tall paired arches with a central pilaster that displays a foundation stone carved with a floriate cross and the date 'anno dom mcmix' in low relief, along with a crucifix under the gable above. The window at the east end consists of three sections: one light, three lights, and one light.

Inside, the church features circular columns with Decorated-style capitals adorned with carved foliage and narrow pointed arches that extend from the nave to the chancel. The baptistry beneath the tower includes mosaic paving, steps, rails, and oak paneling from 1896. The font is made of sandstone and supported by low clustered columns, with a bowl carved with eight-petal flowers. Notable interior elements include a brass eagle lectern given in 1875, a carved oak pulpit featuring a figure of St Chad holding a church, which was given in 1914, and a reredos designed by J.H. Gibbons and made by Messrs. Boulton and Son in 1909. This reredos has a carved canopy above God in Majesty, surrounded by figures in adoration, including an earthly king, the Virgin Mary, and a bishop, along with panels depicting scripture and symbols of the Evangelists with angels. The east window, designed and made by Miss M.E. Aldrich Rope of Chelsea, was dedicated in 1922 and illustrates the theme of the Redemption of Creation. Additionally, the mosaic reredos from the original apsidal end is mounted on the wall of the nave, featuring the Agnus Dei and winged angels with the inscription 'Sursum Corda' ('lift up your hearts').