Description

LEEDS

SE2934NE BLENHEIM GROVE
714-1/72/27 (South West side)
05/08/76 All Souls' House
(Formerly Listed as:
BLACKMAN LANE, Woodhouse
Former Vicarage immediately
south-east of All Souls Church)

II

Former vicarage to All Souls' Church, now flats, with covered
passage link to church. Late C19, converted c1978. Coursed
squared gritstone and ashlar, stone slate roof.
2 storeys with attic and basement, 7 bays, on sloping site.
Gothic Revival style. Facade to road: board door right in
moulded pointed arch with hoodmould, crocketed niche above;
2-light mullioned windows to ground floor, cross windows to
1st floor, 2 single-light windows above entrance. Inscription
in Gothic lettering above ground-floor windows: 'CHRISTUS MEUM
FUNDAMENTUM SIT HUIC DOMO FIRMAMENTUM' ('May Christ be my
foundation (and) the support for this house'). Gable copings,
inserted roof lights, 4 tall banded ridge stacks.
Rear: ashlar-walled basement forms ground floor on this side;
4 bays, end bays project slightly and gabled, covered passage
set back on left, octagonal piers and 4 moulded segmental
arches, the right arch walled to form a lobby to vicarage
entrance, steep-pitched roof. House has 3- and 4-light transom
and mullion windows; full-height canted bay window bay 2 with
carved shields below 2nd-floor window. 2 dormers with carved
barge boards centre.
INTERIOR: main stair removed when converted to flats; a
service stair at the E end from basement to attics has
square-section balusters and newels with ball finials.
Although the main rooms on the ground floor have been
partitioned the doors with 6 fielded-panels and crenellated
architraves remain, also panelled reveals to windows and
egg-and-dart ceiling plasterwork. Upper floors not examined.

Listing NGR: SE2997734701

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547443

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)