Description

LEEDS

SE23NE CHURCH LANE, Meanwood
714-1/6/957 (East side (off))
05/08/76 Church of Holy Trinity

GV II

Anglican church. 1849. By W Railton. For Mary and Elizabeth
Beckett. Coursed squared gritstone with herring-bone tooling,
ashlar details, steeply-pitched slate roofs with gable copings
and crocketed finials. Gothic Revival style.
PLAN: nave of 5 bays with S aisle and gabled porch, chancel
with S door, N and S transepts, crossing tower.
EXTERIOR: elaborate scrolled hinges to double doors; paired
lancet windows to nave, 3 lancets to E window, 4 to W end,
paired lancets with tall buttress between to transepts.
2-stage tower with stone broach spire, pinnacles, lucarnes and
clock faces.
INTERIOR: octagonal nave piers, carved bosses to corbels, high
Gothic arched ribbed roof; tall moulded chancel arch; the
chancel S door opens into a lobby area with the studded and
decorated door to the tower stairs opposite. Original board
doors, numbered pews. Octagonal stone font with niches, cover
replaced, choir stalls and pulpit 1961.
Other C19 features include: eagle lectern given by Mary
Beckett, 1880; W window stained glass depicting prophets and
apostles in memory of Sir Thomas Beckett of Somerby and
Meanwood; N transept window in memory of Marian, wife of
Thomas Wolryche Stansfield of Weetwood Grove, d.1861; S
transept window in memory of Christopher Beckett of Meanwood,
date lost; the E window glazing is a memorial to the founders,
given by their brothers and sister, Sir Thomas Beckett bart.,
Edmund Denison, Henry Beckett and Fanny Marriott. S aisle
windows: 2 commemorate Thomas Wolrych Stansfield of Weetwood
Grove, died 15 December 1885; a fine pair of windows in Art
Nouveau style in memory of Marian and Walter Rowley of Alder
Hill, a knight of St John of Jerusalem, died 9 February 1926.
A plaque on the N wall of the chancel records that the
founders were daughters of Sir John Beckett bart, the Revd
George Urquart vicar, Mr Thomas Midgley, churchwarden.
The extensive use of the Beckett family name throughout the
church compensates for the lack of any inscription on the
family burial vault to the east (qv).
(Linstrum, D: The Historic Architecture of Leeds: 1969-: 38).

Listing NGR: SE2863437335

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Holy Trinity Church official website
• Wikidata Q26547164

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