Woodhouse War Memorial, Leeds

Heritage listing

Details LEEDS SE2934NE BLACKMAN LANE 714-1/72/25 (South East side) 26/09/63 Church of All Souls with boundary wall and war memorial (Formerly Listed as: BLACKMAN LANE, Woodhouse Church of All Souls (incl walls and gates along Blackman Lane & Blenheim Grove) II* Anglican church. 1876-80. By Sir G Gilbert Scott. Coursed gritstone, ashlar quoins, slate roof. In Gothic Revival style. PLAN: 6-bay nave, 3-bay chancel, side aisles, clerestory, large 4-stage tower at NW corner with pierced parapet, short pyramidal spire, octagonal stair turret. EXTERIOR: S porch with fine cast-iron gates, niche with Gothic arch above, double doors with elaborate scrolled hinges. W door with foundation stone on N side: '+THIS FOUNDATION STONE IS LAID/ TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND THE MEMORY OF/ WALTER FARQUAR HOOK DD VICAR OF THIS TOWN/ AD 1837 1859/ BY HIS LIFELONG FRIEND/ WILLIAM PAGE BARON HATHERLEY/ LATE LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF GREAT BRITAIN/ SEP 2nd 1876'. Single lancets to aisles, buttresses between, 3-light clerestory windows, lancets to E and W ends. INTERIOR: nave piers alternate octagonal and cylindrical, painted wooden ribbed barrel vault, stone ribbed vault to chancel; patterned mosaic floors, marble steps to choir and sacristy. Reredos: Christ in Glory above scenes from the Entombment, cusped arches, flanking arcading, 3-arch piscina and sedilia. Pulpit: black marble columns, carved figures of prophet and Good Shepherd. Fine organ case of carved oak with Latin inscription and tracery with angels. Brass eagle lectern with 3 lions at base, in memory of Anna Felicia Hook, 1880. Font in tower baptistry of fossiliferous marble, steps and columns, cover of carved wood with doors painted by Susan Emily Ford 1891, gilded tracery and crocketed finials. Fine stained glass including east window of

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.