Description

LEEDS

SE2932 DOMESTIC STREET, Holbeck
714-1/42/833 (South West side)
30/04/82 Holbeck Mills Carpet Warehouse

II

United Methodist Free Church, now carpet warehouse. c1880,
altered C20. Probably to designs by EJ Dodgshun. Baroque
Revival style. Ashlar front and brick sides, stone dressed,
with former Sunday School cross wing at rear.
The grand front with a deep plinth is dominated by a giant
Corinthian columned bowed portico, the full entablature
surmounted by a balustrade with urn finials on the dies, is
returned over narrow flanking bays and then broken forward
over giant Corinthian quoin pilastered corner towers.
Pedimented gable set back behind portico. Half of the circular
domed entrance vestibule breaks out into the portico abutting
the columns with pedimented doorways following curve. Rosette
plaques and squat pilastered windows to recessed 1st floor.
The narrow flanking bays have cartouches and round-headed
lights. Eared architrave, round-arched windows to towers,
pediments on consoles to ground floor. The console bracketed
eaves cornice studded with lion heads is returned along brick
sides. Recessed round-arched window bay. Vermiculated plinth.
INTERIOR: virtually intact apart from removal of pews. The
vestibule projecting into the portico has a compartmented dome
internally lofty interior to chapel proper with deep cove to
compartmented ceiling, rich plasterwork, large pendant
decorative 'trumpet' vents to each compartment. Ornate
acanthus and drop finialed frame with square panel containing
rose to ceiling of organ loft apse. Curved ended all round
gallery, vast seating capacity, on cast-iron columns with
foliate capitals. The deep end of gallery above entrance has
screen of similar ornate cast-iron columns supporting
corbelled coved ceiling at higher level.
Little altered in spite of change of use. Edward Dodgshun was
articled to Thomas Ambler and worked in GE Street's office, he
worked in Leeds with G Dale Oliver.

Listing NGR: SE2897532276

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656153

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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