St Cross Church, Middleton

St Cross Church, Middleton
St Cross
53°44′37″N 1°32′49″W / 53.7435°N 1.5470°W / 53.7435; -1.5470Coordinates: 53°44′37″N 1°32′49″W / 53.7435°N 1.5470°W / 53.7435; -1.5470
Location Middleton, Leeds
Country England
Denomination Church of England
Architecture
Status Parish Church
Architect(s) F.L.Charlton
Completed 1933
Specifications
Materials Concrete frame, Brick faced
Administration
Parish Middleton
Deanery Armley
Archdeaconry Leeds
Diocese Diocese of Ripon and Leeds
Province York

The Church of St Cross, Middleton is a church in Middleton, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is an active Anglican church and part of the Armley deanery in the archdeaconry of Leeds, Diocese of Ripon and Leeds.[1][2]

History

The parish of St Cross was taken out of the extensive parish of Middleton after the Middleton council housing estate was built in the 1920s and the population in the area increased dramatically. St Mary's Church acquired a site on which to build a mission church and a temporary wooden building was erected in 1925 with funds from the "Leeds Church Extension Society".[3] A permanent church was built in 1933 with funding from the diocese.[3] St Cross was created a separate parish in July 1935. The church was designed in the Early Christian style by F.L.Charlton for the Church Forward Movement.[4]

Structure

The church was designed in the Early Christian style by F.L.Charlton for the Church Forward Movement. It has a concrete frame and is clad in brick.[4]

Exterior

The church has five bays with narrow single light rounded windows to the nave and a clerestory of narrow closely spaced rounded arched windows.[4] The church has a north east Italianate campanile style bell tower with a single bell.[2] The tower is 60 feet high.[5]

Interior

The nave is spanned by broad Gothic arches and there are five bay arcades with rounded arches. The walls are plastered.[5] The altar, credence table and lectern were designed by Charlton and made by Robert Thompson of Kilburn who also made the aisle screens. The pulpit is from St John at Adel and a 19th century font from Ainderby Steeple. A Crucifix made in Oberammergau came from Christ Chuch in Hunslet.[4]

The interior was altered in 1982 when the rear two bays were partitioned to form a parish room and kitchen.[5]

References

Notes
Bibliography
  • Illing, Rev. E. J. (1971), A History of the Parish of Middleton and its Parish Church, Middleton Parish Church 
  • Leach, Peter; Nikolaus Pevsner (2009), The Buildings of England: Yorkshire West Riding, Leeds, Bradford and the North, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 978 0 300 12665 5 

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