Description

LEEDS

SE2835NW HEADINGLEY LANE, Headingley
714-1/64/787 (North East side)
05/08/76 Mount St Joseph's College of the
Blessed Virgin

GV II

Wesleyan college, now Roman Catholic College and Leeds
Diocesan RE centre. 1867-68 with later C19 extensions. By
Wilson and Wilcox of Bath. Rock-faced coursed stone
(Potternewton stone) with ashlar dressings from the Meanwood
quarries; slate roofs. Large and low, 2 storeys, 7 bays,
courtyard plan. Gothic Revival style.
Recased stone steps to central gabled porch: double doors,
plate tracery overlight, moulded Gothic arch; 3-stage clock
tower above with 3-light traceried window, arcaded clock
stage, conical stone dome on short columns, bud finial.
3-window flanking bays: 3-light traceried windows to ground
floor, 1st-floor windows are gabled through eaves dormers with
quatrefoil lights in the tympana, the central window
surmounted by a double flue chimney; pierced parapets, end
stacks. Outer projecting 3-window bays in similar style but
with twin pyramid roofs with small gabled dormer windows and
elaborate wrought-iron finials. Possibly later gabled bay far
left with plain surrounds to windows; a 4-window single-storey
bay far right with traceried 2-light windows, pilasters
between.
Rear: walling of coursed squared ashlar, large grey slates to
roofs; central chapel with 3-light E window and 2-light cross
windows to side walls, 2-storey ranges with shouldered arches
to ground-floor windows.
INTERIOR: not examined; plan as described in the 1872
Directory comprised: entrance hall under tower, library right,
board room left, main corridor running along rear, 8 students'
day-rooms off; left wing: 4 lecture rooms, one with an open
timber roof and a chemistry laboratory with lecture room.
Right wing: dining hall with open timbered roof, kitchen at
right-angles, governor's and housekeeper's apartments. Sick
and convalescent wards and students' rooms on 1st floor.
Contractor Mr Whiteley of Leeds, Governor the Revd John
Farrar. Built as a training college for the Wesleyan church,
the 1889 OS map shows rear wings, the E wing L-shaped to form
a small courtyard on the E side. The rear wings extended,
chapel and flanking ranges built to form an enclosed rear
courtyard late C19-early C20. In 1924-1930 it was leased by
Leeds University as a hall of residence and renamed Devonshire

Hall, that name transferred to the existing hall of residence
on Cumberland Road (qv).
(Porter's Leeds Directory: 1872-: XVIII; Gosden, PHJH &
Taylor, AJ: Studies in the History of a University: Leeds:
1974-: 59).

Listing NGR: SE2838935968

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547497

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