Description

LEEDS

SE3036 ST MARTIN'S VIEW, Potternewton
714-1/19/1035 (North side)
Church of St Martin

GV II

Anglican church. 1879-81 and 1898. By Richard Adams and John
Kelly. Rock-faced ashlar, slate roof.
PLAN: nave of 6 bays with N and S aisles and clerestory, lower
3-bay chancel, 2-stage unfinished W tower, N and S porches,
vestry. Gothic Revival style.
EXTERIOR: nave has 3-light windows, stepped buttresses,
porches with cusped arches and attached chamfered columns,
wrought-iron gates. Chancel more ornate with 7-light E window,
gabled buttresses surmounted by crocketed pinnacles, uncarved
gargoyle projections. The tower has angle buttresses, 4-light
W window, 2-light belfry windows, shallow pyramid roof.
INTERIOR: quatrefoil columns to nave, corbels with angels and
foliage support attached columns, hammer-beam type roof.
Chancel: 3 bays, red, green, black tiled floor, angel corbels,
panelled ceiling. Murals painted 1913 with 'Te Deum' theme
cover chancel walls and frame chancel arch, angels of all
nationalities carry scrolls in the upper band: 'The Holy
Church throughout the World doth acknowledge Thee'; St Martin
over vestry door; grouped figures under trefoil arches; angels
flank E window.
FITTINGS: reredos of carved, gilt and painted wood replaced
original stone 1898-1905: Magi and prophets, lower side panels
with 4 northern saints each side completed 1913. Pulpit:
hexagonal, stone, open crocketed arch on each face, demi-angel
supporting the desk. Elaborate lectern: brass, broad circular
base on lions' feet, central stem and 4 detached twisted
shafts with octagonal finials and spirelets, eagle desk,
inscription on base records that it was given 16 March 1881 by
Mrs John Cadman in memory of her husband; described in 1888 as
'considered the finest in the N of England...shown in the
Paris exhibition' (Kelly). Font: 7-sided, stone, traceried
panels.
STAINED GLASS: windows include a war memorial by Kempe firm in
N aisle, S aisle Lady Chapel window in memory of Mary Cadman,
died 20 March 1894.
The unfinished W end had a small wooden bellcote when the
church was consecrated; the base of the tower, forming a
vestry, was added as a memorial to the Rev RGP Bullock in
1898.
(Report to City of Leeds Planning Dept: Victorian Society:

West Yorkshire Group: Proposed Conservation Area: St Mary's
Road, Leeds 7; Kelly's Directories of Leeds, 1888, 1905, 1915;
Ripon Diocesan Calendar: 1914-).

Listing NGR: SE3080436281

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547695

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