The Diocese of Leeds was founded in 1878 out of the former Diocese of Beverley. It consists of the whole of West Yorkshire (with the exception of the parish of Todmorden), together with some parishes in the East Riding, North Yorkshire, Greater Manchester and Lancashire. It is a suffragan diocese in the Province of Liverpool, and is subject to the Archdiocese of Liverpool. The cathedral is in Leeds, and is dedicated to St Anne. 114 churches were visited for Taking Stock (2008); those built after 1980 were largely excluded from the review.
Important as an early church by A. W. N. Pugin (albeit that his early works were often rather dull), and in the... Read More
A remarkable 1930s essay in the Norman style, impressive in its scale, completeness and reference to the decorative... Read More
A plain red brick rectangular building with little architectural decoration, but with some interesting modern secondary... Read More
Although built forty years after the Second Relief Act and two years after Catholic Emancipation, this church displays... Read More
A modest church of the early 1950s, considerably enlarged and enhanced by Peter Langtry-Langton in 1979. There is a... Read More
A large interwar church in a stripped modern Early Christian style, forming a good townscape counterpoint to the Grade... Read More
A simple early twentieth century Gothic chapel, built for Nonconformist use, providing an architectural focus and point... Read More
A late example of the revived Byzantine-Romanesque style, popular for Catholic churches between the wars. The external... Read More
A late Gothic Revival church built as a convent chapel, its unremarkable exterior belying an interior of some quality.... Read More
An attractive though unremarkable red brick Gothic design of the early twentieth century by Charles Fox of Dewsbury,... Read More
A utilitarian hall structure of the 1950s, given some architectural dignity by Peter Langtry-Langton’s remodelling of... Read More
A modest brick church in simplified Romanesque style, the first of several churches built after the First World War in... Read More
