Leeds Woodhouse Lane Methodist New Connexion Church

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• Leeds, Woodhouse Lane New Connexion Chapel was built in 1857-8 at a cost of £6000. In 1893 it was described as
  A structure of brick with stone dressings in the Italian style, the principal front has a bold pediment, filled with carved foliage and scroll ornament, and contains an organ ot other musical insrument built at a cost of about £800, and a memorial window to the late Mr Alderman Marsden: there are about 1200 sittings and in the basement are schoolrooms. A Sunday school and Lecture Hall of brick with stone dressings, in a corresponding style, foundation stones of which were laid September 12th 1887, are on the north side of the chapel.
  By 1901 £13.000 had been spent on the original construction and subsequent enlargement of the chapel, school, and a house. A further £800 had been spent on purchasing an organ or other musical
  instrument. The chapel seated 900 and the school 350
  Sources
  Kelly’s Directory of Leeds, 1893 p.12
  Methodist New Connexion: Returns of Trust Estates as presented in Special Schedules, January 1901 (Leeds Circuit)

  By G W Oxley (29/04/2026)

• The building is now part of Leeds Metropolitan University and is grade II listed. You can see the detail of the listing here:
  https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1255652

  By Christopher HILL (08/07/2021)