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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Mount St Mary's Church, Leeds at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q16707751

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