Description

SE3034
714-1/29/441
05/08/76

LEEDS
WOODHOUSE LANE (South West side)
No. 43

(Formerly listed as Leeds Metropolitan University, previously listed as: Leeds Polytechnic (Accounting and Applied Economics Building))

GV
II

Methodist New Connexion chapel, now part of Leeds Metropolitan University. 1857-58, altered mid C20. By William Hill. Red brick with stone dressings, slate roof. Two storeys over basement, five x seven bays. Classical style. Corinthian pilastered doorways with heavy entablatures and semicircular fanlights (that to right blocked) flank three round-headed windows.

First floor: original central window is round-headed, with carved impost blocks and keystone; flanking tall metal-framed windows. Rusticated pilasters to corners, bracketed cornice, full-width pediment with round light and relief foliage in tympanum, stepped stone ?chimneys at each end of roof apex. Left return: original and altered fenestration as front.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

The chapel cost £6,000 to build and contained an organ and memorial window to Mr Alderman Marsden; school rooms and an institute were in the basement.

(Kelly's Directory of Leeds: 1913-: XXVIII).

Listing NGR: SE3001534030

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547226

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)