Former Leeds Charity School & St John's Parish Room

Former Leeds charity school and St John's Parish Rooms, of 1815-1816.

Formerly listed as: MARK LANE (north side) Parish room south-west of St John's Church and Age Concern premises south-west of Church of St John.

MATERIALS: ashlar, slate roof, square leaded lights.

PLAN: rectangular on plan.

EXTERIOR: the building occupies the corner of Wade and Mark Lane. It is a wide gabled block predominantly single storey but with a two-storey single bay at the west end (facing Wade Lane). It is constructed of ashlar, with a plinth, stone tracery windows, a moulded cornice and parapet, a pitched slate roof and a stone stack straddling the ridge west of centre. All the windows and doors have hoodmoulds with label stops. The west elevation (now - 2021 - the main elevation) facing Wade Lane is of three bays. The ground floor has a pointed arch doorway (which is the former entrance to the school mistress’s accommodation) set left of a central square-headed tracery window of three pointed lights and a pointed arch tracery window of two lights. The first floor has three pointed arch windows, the outer two of which are single-light windows which embrace a central tracery window of two lights. The right return (south) facing Mark Lane is of three unequal bays. The two eastern bays have a large square-headed tracery window of three-lights and the western bay has a small square headed single-light window. The left return (north elevation – the former main entrance to the school) is hidden by a C21 two-storey extension but it is of six bays. The three eastern bays each contain a large square-headed window which match the south elevation (the easternmost window now altered to a doorway), whilst the three western bays contain a flat lintel doorway (the former school entrance) set left of two pointed arch tracery windows containing leaded lights. The east elevation is single storey and has a large five-light pointed arch window with intersecting tracery and square leaded lights.

INTERIOR: a C21 mezzanine has been inserted into the double height school room and the school mistress’s accommodation converted to offices.