Presbyterian Church Cavendish Road Leeds
LEEDS - The memorial stone of the new Presbyterian Church of England in Cavendish Road, Leeds, was laid on Oct. 23. The principal or ground floor of the church will be 13 feet above Cavendish‑road and approached by a flight of steps 10 feet in width. The body of the church is 62 feet by 46 feet, giving accommodation for 413 adults, allowing 20in. to each, the pews all radiating from the rostrum. A gallery is provided at the lower end of the church next Cavendish‑road, with accommodation for 157 persons. Under the church is placed a large schoolroom, book and store looms, duplicate lavatory arrangement, staircases leading to church, a residence for caretaker, and entrance from Cavendish‑road and Tonbridge‑street. The style is Italian, the principal front being divided into five parts by pilasters. The facade is three stories in height, and will have a rusticated basement of stone with a superstructure e.xecuted in red pressed bricks. The estimated cost of the building (inclusive of land) will be about £6,000. The architect for the building is Mr James B. Fraser, FRIBA., Park Square, Leeds.
LEEDS - A new Presbyterian church at Leeds was opened on Sunday last. The body of the church is 62 feet by 46 feet, and gives accommodation for 444 adults, allowing 20 inches to each, the pews all radiating from the rostrum. A gallery is provided at the lower end of the church next Cavendish‑road, with accommodation for156 persons. Under the church is a large schoolroom, and also book and store rooms. The style adopted is Italian, the principal front being divided into five stages. The facade is three stories in height, and has a rusticated basement of stone, with a superstructure executed in red pressed bricks, having some string‑courses and dressings to arch‑headed windows, the whole being finished at the top with a bold moulded cornice and blocking, and ornamented pedestals at the two comers over pilasters. The estimated cost of the building (inclusive of land) will be about £6,000. In the vestibule is a plaster cast, taken from a work by Flaxman in Bradford Parish Church. The entire works have been carried out from the designs, and under the immediate superintendence of, Mr James B. Fraser, FRIBA, architect, Park‑square, Leeds. [Building News 19 December 1879 page 780].
Reference Building News 8 November 1878 page 489
Reference Building News 19 December 1879 page 780