Description

LEEDS

SE3033NW ALBION PLACE
714-1/76/5 (North side)
26/09/63 No.5
(Formerly Listed as:
ALBION PLACE
(North side)
No.5
Church Institute)

GV II

Church institute, now shops. 1866-68, converted c1982. By
Richard Adams and John Kelly. Polychrome brick with ashlar
dressings and stone ornament, steeply-pitched slate gabled
roof with ornate octagonal ventilator and spire. Gothic
Revival style.
Corner site with Lands Lane, 2 storeys and basement. South
front: gabled porch incorporates flanking buttresses; 5 gables
each with a tall Decorated window and buttresses between,
stone tracery and dressings. Ground floor: projecting c1980
apsidal shop windows set within remodelled openings (formerly
segmentally arched). Right return (to Lands Lane): huge
traceried Gothic window and flanking panels.
Richard Adams' earliest known Leeds building; he was architect
to the Leeds School Board from 1873, designed several
churches, d.1883; his practice was continued by his partner,
John Kelly.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: The Church Institute and Sunday School
Association was established in 1857 to unite churchmen in an
endeavour to extend religious and secular knowledge.
The original interior contained a lecture hall for 700-800
persons, seating for tea meetings for 250-300, and a reading
room and library of 10,000 volumes. Wall frescoes represented
St Oswald planting the cross, St Gregory, St Augustine and
medallions of the saints and ecclesiastical banners were
suspended from the roof. Exterior and interior illustrated in
The Builder.
(Kelly's Directory of Leeds: 1899-: 21; The Builder).

Listing NGR: SE3014633612

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548131

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