Robert Dennis Chantrell

Robert Dennis Chantrell (1793 - 1872) was an English church architect, best-known today for designing Leeds Parish Church.

Early career

Chantrell was born in Newington, Southwark, London. He was a pupil in the office of Sir John Soane from 1807 to 1814, and in 1819 he started a practice in Leeds.

Architectural work

Surviving buildings by Chantrell include:

*alterations to the Leeds Library, including galleries (1821-36)
*completion of Rudding Park (c1824)
*alterations to St Mary-the-Virgin, Hunslet (1826)
*St Stephen, Kirkstall (1828-9)
*Emmanuel Church, Lockwood (1828-9)
*All Saints, Netherthong (1828-9)
*St Peter, Morley (1829-30)
*St Matthew, Holbeck (1829-32)
*partial reconstruction of All Saints, Pontefract (1832-3)
*St Peter, Leeds ("Leeds Parish Church") (1837-41)
*Christ Church, Skipton (1837-9)
*Christ Church, Lothersdale (1838)
*St Wilfred, Pool-in-Wharfedale (1839)
*the steeple of Holy Trinity, Boar Lane, Leeds (1839)
*the neo-Norman bellcote of St John the Baptist, Adel (1839)
*St David, Holmbridge (1839-40)
*St Lucius, Farnley Tyas (1840)
*Holy Trinity, Batley Carr (1841-2)
*St Paul, Shadwell (1841-2)
*St Mary, Honley (1843)
*Holy Trinity, Leven (1843)
*St Paul, Denholme Gate (1843-6, with Thomas Shaw)
*All Saints, Roberttown (1844-6, with Thomas Shaw)
*Holy Trinity, Cowling (1845)
*St Mary, Middleton (1846-52)
*the tower of St Paul, Halifax (1847)
*St Andrew, Keighley (1847-8)
*St Paul, Armitage Bridge (1848)

Sources

*cite book | last = Pevsner | first = Nikolaus | authorlink = Nikolaus Pevsner | coauthors = and Radcliffe, Enid | title = Yorkshire: The West Riding | origyear = 1959 | edition = 2nd edition | year = 1967 | publisher = Penguin Books | location = London
*cite book | last = Wrathmell | first = Susan | coauthors = with Minnis, John | title = Leeds (Pevsner Architectural Guides) | year = 2005 | publisher = Yale University Press | location = New Haven, CT | id = ISBN 0-300-10736-6
*cite book | last = Linstrum | first = Derek | title = West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture | year = 1978 | publisher = Lund Humphries Publishers | location = London | id = ISBN 0-85331-410-1
*cite book | last = Colvin | first = H M | authorlink = Howard Colvin | title = Biographical Dictionary of English Architects 1660-1840 | year = 1954 | publisher = John Murray | location = London |