Latitude: 53.8079 / 53°48'28"N
Longitude: -1.5468 / 1°32'48"W
OS Eastings: 429943
OS Northings: 434722
OS Grid: SE299347
Mapcode National: GBR BJG.9R
Mapcode Global: WHC9D.6KP3
Plus Code: 9C5WRF53+57
Entry Name: Church of All Souls with Boundary Wall and War Memorial
Listing Date: 26 September 1963
Last Amended: 11 September 1996
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1255888
English Heritage Legacy ID: 465491
ID on this website: 101255888
Location: All Souls' Church, Bagby Fields, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS7
County: Leeds
Electoral Ward/Division: Hyde Park and Woodhouse
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Leeds
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: St Martin, Potternewton with All Souls, Little London
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Church building
LEEDS
SE2934NE BLACKMAN LANE
714-1/72/25 (South East side)
26/09/63 Church of All Souls with boundary
wall and war memorial
(Formerly Listed as:
BLACKMAN LANE, Woodhouse
Church of All Souls (incl walls and
gates along Blackman Lane & Blenheim
Grove)
II*
Anglican church. 1876-80. By Sir G Gilbert Scott. Coursed
gritstone, ashlar quoins, slate roof. In Gothic Revival style.
PLAN: 6-bay nave, 3-bay chancel, side aisles, clerestory,
large 4-stage tower at NW corner with pierced parapet, short
pyramidal spire, octagonal stair turret.
EXTERIOR: S porch with fine cast-iron gates, niche with Gothic
arch above, double doors with elaborate scrolled hinges.
W door with foundation stone on N side: '+THIS FOUNDATION
STONE IS LAID/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND THE MEMORY OF/ WALTER
FARQUAR HOOK DD VICAR OF THIS TOWN/ AD 1837 1859/ BY HIS
LIFELONG FRIEND/ WILLIAM PAGE BARON HATHERLEY/ LATE LORD HIGH
CHANCELLOR OF GREAT BRITAIN/ SEP 2nd 1876'. Single lancets to
aisles, buttresses between, 3-light clerestory windows,
lancets to E and W ends.
INTERIOR: nave piers alternate octagonal and cylindrical,
painted wooden ribbed barrel vault, stone ribbed vault to
chancel; patterned mosaic floors, marble steps to choir and
sacristy. Reredos: Christ in Glory above scenes from the
Entombment, cusped arches, flanking arcading, 3-arch piscina
and sedilia. Pulpit: black marble columns, carved figures of
prophet and Good Shepherd. Fine organ case of carved oak with
Latin inscription and tracery with angels. Brass eagle lectern
with 3 lions at base, in memory of Anna Felicia Hook, 1880.
Font in tower baptistry of fossiliferous marble, steps and
columns, cover of carved wood with doors painted by Susan
Emily Ford 1891, gilded tracery and crocketed finials. Fine
stained glass including east window of c1880 with figures of
saints and prophets.
An illustration in the church shows the interior shortly after
construction; it never had benches in the nave.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wall to roadside: overall length approx
35m; 0.75m high, stepped pointed coping, extends from tower to
former gateway, piers and gates missing.
War memorial against church S wall, square stone base with
inscription on bronze plaque, plinth with corner columns,
wooden cross with bronze figure, pitched roof over.
Listing NGR: SE2994334722
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 31 January 2017.
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