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Latitude: 53.8203 / 53°49'12"N
Longitude: -1.5789 / 1°34'44"W
OS Eastings: 427818
OS Northings: 436080
OS Grid: SE278360
Mapcode National: GBR B9B.GB
Mapcode Global: WHC9C.Q7BN
Plus Code: 9C5WRCCC+4C
Entry Name: Former Parochial Institute
Listing Date: 22 December 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1255909
English Heritage Legacy ID: 465488
ID on this website: 101255909
Location: Headingley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS6
County: Leeds
Electoral Ward/Division: Headingley
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Leeds
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Headingley St Michael
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
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Headingley
BENNETT ROAD (South side)
Former Parochial Institute
22/12/86
GV
II
Meeting rooms for St Michael's parish church, now offices. 1883-1884, converted C20. By George Corson. Coursed squared sandstone with freestone dressings and Welsh slate roofs. Gothic Revival style. T-shaped plan with gable end to street and wing at rear.
Two gable front, the smaller on the left projects forward and contains the entrance. This has a short column and two half-columns with capitals of naturalistic foliage. Above these are sculpted panels, St Michael and the dragon to the front, the Royal Arms to the side. Paired lancet to the left, quatrefoil in gable. The right hand gable has a buttress flanking the central door with side lights and mullioned window over. Flanking windows are three-light mullion and transom. Large traceried Gothic window above and small lancet in gable. Diagonal buttress to corner. Two- and three-light mullion and transom windows to side elevations and rear wing.
INTERIOR: meeting hall above rooms and offices. Hall with four windows either side. Ribbed wooden ceiling of 18 bays, a central tunnel vault supported on five curious decorated semicircular wrought-iron trusses. The roof is close boarded. Concrete stair with wrought-iron twist balustrade. Main downstairs room (partitioned) has low relief panelled ceiling.
Listing NGR: SE2781836080
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