5, Albion Place

No. 5 Albion Place is a former church institute, now used as shops, built between 1866 and 1868 by architects Richard Adams and John Kelly. The building is designed in the Gothic Revival style and features polychrome brick with ashlar dressings and stone ornamentation. It has a steeply-pitched slate gabled roof topped with an ornate octagonal ventilator and spire. The structure occupies a corner site with Lands Lane and consists of two storeys and a basement.

The south front includes a gabled porch with flanking buttresses, five gables each featuring a tall Decorated window with buttresses in between, and stone tracery and dressings. The ground floor has projecting apsidal shop windows from around 1980, which are set within remodelled openings that were originally segmentally arched. On the right side facing Lands Lane, there is a large traceried Gothic window with flanking panels.

This building is notable as Richard Adams' earliest known work in Leeds. He served as the architect for the Leeds School Board from 1873 and designed several churches before his death in 1883; his practice continued under John Kelly. The original interior of the church institute included a lecture hall that could accommodate 700 to 800 people, seating for tea meetings for 250 to 300, and a reading room and library containing 10,000 volumes. Wall frescoes depicted St Oswald planting the cross, St Gregory, St Augustine, and medallions of saints, with ecclesiastical banners suspended from the roof. The exterior and interior of the building were illustrated in The Builder.