Description

LEEDS

SE33SW BECKETT STREET, Sheepscar
714-1/11/1102 (West side)
22/11/74 St James' Hospital Chapel

GV II

Chapel. 1858-61. By Perkin and Backhouse of Leeds. Red brick
and stone dressings, with decorative blue and white brickwork,
slate roof (diminishing courses).
PLAN: cruciform plan with apsidal 'east' end. Pedimented
gables, cornice. Moulded round-arch Romanesque style windows.
EXTERIOR: SE entrance front: steps up to paired round-headed
doors in moulded stone arch, attached columns, blind arcade
and rose window above, all in elaborate round-arched recess;
flanking 2-light windows, moulded cornice to pediment. Tower
in S angle with 3-light belfry, clock face above and slated
spire; circular stair turret in E angle with round-arched
doorway, round window, arcaded 'campanile' and conical roof.
INTERIOR: much use of polychrome brickwork (black, red and
white): 6-bay nave, carved stone corbels support open trusses
with trefoil piercings; wide chancel arch, paired arches to
transepts, all with carved capitals with flowers, birds and
animals. Carved stone font, square base, attached columns,
carved octagonal bowl; pulpit has red and white marble shafts,
Gothic arcading to pierced panels, angel supporting book rest.
On the N wall: plaque erected by Leeds Board of Guardians to
commemorate the nurses of Leeds Township Infirmary who died
during the First World War or during the epidemic of
influenza, 1917-1918.
The Leeds New Workhouse just to the NE was built in 1858, the
chapel is probably contemporary; the premises were Leeds
Township Infirmary by 1874.
(RCHME: Report: St James's University Hospital: 1995-).

Listing NGR: SE3172334679

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547798

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