Church Of St Augustine At Wrangthorn

The Church of St Augustine at Wrangthorn is an Anglican church constructed between 1870 and 1871, designed by James Barlow Fraser. It is built of rock-faced gritstone with ashlar detailing, and has a slate roof. The church is in a Gothic Revival style.

The prominent southeast tower has three stages with shallow corner buttresses. It features tall paired lancet windows, carved corbels in the form of angels and grotesques to the second stage, an octagonal bell stage, large open pinnacles and a tall stone spire. There are entrances at the base of the tower and in the south porch, the latter featuring board double doors with strap hinges in a deeply moulded arch and a gablet. The east and west windows are of five lights, with decorated tracery. A clerestory is present, along with low north and south aisles with three-light windows and north and south chapels.

Inside, the five-bay nave has a floor of red and black tiles. It features polished marble cylindrical columns with foliate capitals, chamfered pointed arches and electric light fittings featuring a central orb and pendant bulbs with stylised leaf motifs. Original pews with umbrella holders remain. The southwest corner houses a font with marble shafts and an octagonal bowl with angels, covered by a wooden domed cover with a wrought-iron cross and gilded boss pulley balance. The shallow two-bay transepts feature a square pulpit of inlaid marble on square and cylindrical squat columns. The chancel arch has short black marble shafts. The three-bay chancel has a polychrome-tile floor and a painted vaulted wooden ceiling. There are choir stalls with a plaque commemorating James Boultbee, the first vicar of Wrangthorn from 1866 to 1908. A brass altar rail and an eagle lectern are also present. The reredos, made of pink veined marble in a Gothic Revival style, features a central mosaic of the Last Supper and raised lettering reading 'IN.THE.REVERENCE.OF.GOD. AND IN MEMORY OF.JOHN.AND.HARRIET.FRASER', dated 1882. A further east window depicts the Life of Christ, dedicated to the memory of John Fraser, a civil engineer of Leeds who died in September 1881. An 1883 painting by JL Adams demonstrates earlier wall paintings over the chancel arch and on the walls, and brass candelabra hanging from the nave arches.