Description

LEEDS

SE2735 SOUTH PARADE, Headingley
714-1/23/821 (West side)
Baptist Church and Church Hall

GV II

Baptist church and former Sunday School, now offices and
church hall, with forecourt wall and railings. Sunday School
1908 by Percy Robinson and William Alban Jones; church 1925 by
WA Jones and JE Stocks.
MATERIALS: red brick with Horsforth stone dressings, green
Westmorland slate roofs, wrought-iron railings.
STYLE: Free Gothic.
EXTERIOR: the Sunday school range faces South Parade and is of
2 storeys over a basement. T-plan with a 3-storey tower
entrance recessed left with foundation stone: 'THIS STONE WAS
LAID/ BY/ HENRY BARRAN ESQ JP/ SEPTEMBER 19TH 1908'.
The main facade is of 3 bays, the tall central gabled bay with
mullioned windows to ground floor and a 5-light window with
Perpendicular tracery above; flanking stone porches with
double doors, overlights, in moulded arch with carved panels.
Mullioned windows with leaded rectangular cames; deep eaves,
pitched roof, 2 ridge stacks. Forecourt wall and railings:
approx 20m long and 1m high, a low brick wall with stone
coping and railings with scroll motif to standards. Right
return: the hall range is set back and has mullioned windows
and an added flat-roofed storey centre.
The church facade faces onto the North Lane-Kirkstall Lane
junction: a wide gable with 3-light traceried window and
narrow lancet windows, foundation stones to left and right:
'THIS STONE WAS LAID/ BY/ ALFRED BARRAN ESQ JP/ JUNE 27TH
1925' and 'THIS STONE WAS LAID/ BY/ J. CLIFTON TOWN. ESQ/ JUNE
27TH 1925'. The flanking single-storey porches have stone
pointed arches and stepped gables.
INTERIOR: Sunday School hall is of 6 bays and has the original
baptistry below the floor, podium and original wooden screens,
fittings, timber braces and carved wooden panels; the entrance
lobby has a stone staircase with wrought-iron balustrade and
wooden handrail; on the 1st floor the principal lecture room
lit by the 5-light window has end fireplaces with original
wooden panelled surrounds; the 2 pairs of double doors are
part glazed with leaded lights.
The main body of the church is wide and high, with short
transepts and baptistry and organ at the W end. Chamfered
square-section pillars support a wide pointed-arched roof of 6
bays with plasterwork of rose and vine motifs; low side aisles

and arched clerestory windows. Oak doors, wall panelling and
pulpit, green and white marble baptistry, shield motifs in
green glass in the leaded windows. Throughout the building the
materials are of high quality.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Baptist Church congregation was able to
bring the name 'South Parade' when it removed from their city
centre church, having established the Harehills church in
1906. The cost of the Sunday School premises was »7,359
including the site, and the church, partly paid for by the
sale of the city centre site, cost »13,500. The contractors
were Ullathorne and Son of Selby.
(South Parade Baptist Church: Architectural Description of the
New Building: 1925-).

Listing NGR: SE2760735976

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547573

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