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St Marys Convent Church

A Grade II* Listed Building in Burmantofts and Richmond Hill, Leeds

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.7939 / 53°47'38"N

Longitude: -1.5263 / 1°31'34"W

OS Eastings: 431304

OS Northings: 433169

OS Grid: SE313331

Mapcode National: GBR BNM.PS

Mapcode Global: WHC9D.JWFX

Plus Code: 9C5WQFVF+HF

Entry Name: St Marys Convent Church

Listing Date: 5 August 1976

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1255558

English Heritage Legacy ID: 465871

Also known as: Mount St Mary's Church

ID on this website: 101255558

Location: Cavalier Hill, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS9

County: Leeds

Electoral Ward/Division: Burmantofts and Richmond Hill

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Leeds

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Richmond Hill, Leeds

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

Tagged with: Church building Gothic Revival

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Description



LEEDS

SE3133 CHURCH ROAD, Richmond Hill
714-1/36/1039 (East side)
05/08/76 St Mary's Convent Church

GV II*

Also known as: Mount St Mary's Church CHURCH ROAD Richmond
Hill.
Roman Catholic church. 1852. By Joseph Hansom and W Wardell,
chancel and transepts added 1866, by Edward Welby Pugin. Gothic
Revival style. Coursed rock-faced masonry, steep-pitched slate roof.
PLAN: tall nave and chancel, N and S transepts, tall N and S
aisles with 4-light Decorated windows, no clerestory.
EXTERIOR: high gables over aisle windows and gables over tall
narrow windows to the polygonal apse. Decorated window
tracery; rose window in transepts; very large 2 x 4-light west
window with geometric tracery and wide moulded arch entrance
below. Hoodmould stops and column capitals remain uncarved.
Greek crosses at apices of gables.
INTERIOR: many fittings stripped out and church not in use at
time of survey, but fine proportions and remains of important
features survive. Very high 7-bay nave, clustered columns,
capitals uncarved; arched recesses for side chapels in S
aisle, one with marble altar and reredos; in N aisle
triple-arched confessionals with trefoil decoration. 2-bay
transepts with polychrome tiled floors and remains of altars
on E walls. Wooden floor and arch-braced roof to nave, 7 steps
up to choir, rib-vaulting, attached columns with elaborate
carved capitals, tiled floor, altar with plaster frieze on
frontal, 3 crocketed arched niches in windows, plaster frieze
depicts church and lay leaders worshipping the Blessed
Sacrament. Windows boarded but stained glass by John Hardman
Powell survives.
An important building on a prominent site.


Listing NGR: SE3130433169

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