Leeds Minster
Leeds Minster
Leeds Minster, the Minster and Parish Church of Saint Peter-at-Leeds, is a Grade I Gothic Revival church on Kirkgate, Leeds, in the Diocese of Leeds and the parish of Leeds City.
- Location
- Leeds, Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Yorkshire
- City / town
- Leeds
- Address
- Kirkgate, Leeds, Yorkshire, LS2 7DJ
- Postcode
- LS2 7DJ
- Built
- 1839-41; east end altered 1870-80
- Architect
- Robert Dennis Chantrell; east-end alterations associated with G E Street reredos of 1888
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Peter
- Diocese
- Leeds
- Parish
- Leeds City
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Gothic Revival (Perpendicular)
- Materials
- Ashlar with slate roofs
- Grid reference
- SE 306 333
- Opening hours
- Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 2pm.
- Access
- Accessible toilets in church. Level access to the main areas
- Website
- https://leedsminster.org/
Overview
Historic England records a church of 1839-41 by R. D. Chantrell, built during the incumbency of Dr W. F. Hook, with alterations to the east end of 1870-80. The fabric is ashlar under slate roofs. The plan has equal-length chancel and nave, both with clerestories and tall aisles, a massive tower at the centre of the north aisle, a shallow chancel apse, a low outer north aisle and a south transept, generally with Perpendicular tracery. The main entrance is below the tower, with massive oak doors and original ironwork. The five-light east window is flanked by crocketed pinnacles and corner turrets. The tower has panelled sides, a clock by Potts of Leeds, a tall two-light belfry, openwork battlements and crocketed pinnacles.
The interior is entered at the crossing. The long chancel rises in steps to the sanctuary. Crossing and transepts are lierne-vaulted and the apse fan-vaulted, all in plaster. Enormous galleries run along nave and chancel. The sanctuary has a marble arcade with mosaic apostles by Salviati of Venice. The reredos of coloured marble and alabaster, representing Christ in Glory, is by G. E. Street, with cartoons by Clayton and Bell, executed by Rust in 1888. A panelled memorial tomb to Dr Hook is by Sir George Gilbert Scott, 1875. The church received the honorific title of Minster in 2012. A church is recorded on the site in Domesday; Anglo-Scandinavian cross fragments (the Leeds Cross) were found during the present rebuild.