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Latitude: 53.7854 / 53°47'7"N
Longitude: -1.5592 / 1°33'33"W
OS Eastings: 429139
OS Northings: 432210
OS Grid: SE291322
Mapcode National: GBR BFQ.NT
Mapcode Global: WHC9L.03SW
Plus Code: 9C5WQCPR+58
Entry Name: Community Centre, Church of St Matthew
Listing Date: 26 September 1963
Last Amended: 11 September 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1256157
English Heritage Legacy ID: 465232
ID on this website: 101256157
Location: Holbeck, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS11
County: Leeds
Electoral Ward/Division: Beeston and Holbeck
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Leeds
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Holbeck
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Church building
LEEDS
SE2932 ST MATTHEW'S STREET, Holbeck
714-1/42/851 (East side)
26/09/63 Community Centre, Church of St
Matthew
(Formerly Listed as:
ST MATTHEW'S STREET, Holbeck
Church of St Matthew)
GV II
Anglican church, now community centre. 1829-32, spire added
mid C19, converted C20. By RD Chantrell. For the Church
Commissioners. Coursed gritstone ashlar, slate roof.
PLAN: nave, chancel, N and S aisles, no clerestory, west
tower.
EXTERIOR: tall lancets to aisles. Geometrical traceried east
window in chancel. Plain pinnacles at corners. West tower with
broach spire and pinnacles.
INTERIOR: a 7-bay body with gallery on 3 sides supported on
thin cast-iron columns and projections at E and W ends for
chancel and tower respectively; the spaces left in the corners
were filled by vestries or staircases and these were given
lower roofs to add visual interest.
The church held 1,200 worshippers and cost ยป3,734 18s 4 1/2d.
One of 4 churches designed to a similar plan at this time; it
belongs to the second group of Commissioner churches, built in
Early English style which was cheaper than the Decorated
Gothic of the first phase.
(Thoresby Society Publication, 2nd Series, Volume 2: Webster
C: RD Chantrell, Architect: his life and work in Leeds
1818-47).
Listing NGR: SE2913932210
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