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Latitude: 53.7934 / 53°47'36"N
Longitude: -1.6669 / 1°40'0"W
OS Eastings: 422039
OS Northings: 433062
OS Grid: SE220330
Mapcode National: GBR JSSK.XX
Mapcode Global: WHC9B.CXG8
Plus Code: 9C5WQ8VM+96
Entry Name: Church of St Lawrence
Listing Date: 17 June 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1213930
English Heritage Legacy ID: 341881
Also known as: St Lawrence & St Paul
ID on this website: 101213930
Location: St Lawrence's Church, Pudsey, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS28
County: Leeds
Electoral Ward/Division: Pudsey
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Pudsey
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Pudsey St Lawrence and St Paul
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Church building
SE2233SW LS28 CHURCH LANE
PUDSEY (east side)
6/117 Church of
St. Lawrence
GV II
Commissioners' Church. c1821 by Thomas Taylor (Leeds) constructed by
Messrs. Hainsworth & Co., digging contractors. Ashlar, Westmorland
blue-slate roof. Gothic Revival style. West tower, nave with clearstorey,
aisles, shallow sanctuary. Tower: 3-stages, embattled, with offset
gableted angle buttresses with gablets surmounted by tall crocketed pinnacles.
South doorway and all windows 4-centred arched. 3-light west window;
2nd stage has 2-light window; clock to each face; 3-light transomed belfry
opening with traceried head. Nave: 5-bay, 3-light windows to aisles,
2-light to clearstorey with intersecting Y-tracery, articulated by tall
gableted buttresses, embattled parapets continuing across gables.
Sanctuary: one bay with low lean-to either side. 5-light transomed east
window.
Interior: aisle arcade of tall octagonal columns with moulded capitals,
coved flat-ceilinged roof. Galleried on 3 sides, the fronts finely carved
c1922 when Perpendicular-style panelling was added above sanctuary arch
which is flanked by contemporary painting by Madeline French. Re-pewed
c1877 when 1st bay of nave was occupied by a new chancel with choir stalls
with carved poppy heads and organ with elaborate case was added. Caen-stone
octagonal pulpit with shafted marble columns.
Listing NGR: SE2203933062
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