St Saviour Church, Richmond Hill

St Saviour
St Saviour Church
Coordinates: 53°47′30″N 1°31′34″W / 53.7918°N 1.526°W / 53.7918; -1.526
Location Richmond Hill, Leeds
Country England
Denomination Anglican
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Architecture
Status Parish church
Heritage designation Grade I
Architect(s) John Macduff Derick
Architectural type Church
Style Gothic Revival architecture
Groundbreaking 1842
Completed 1845
Specifications
Materials Dressed stone
Administration
Parish Richmond Hill
Deanery Allerton
Archdeaconry Leeds
Diocese Leeds
Province York

St Saviour Church in Richmond Hill, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds.

History

The church was built between 1842 and 1845 to designs by architect John Macduff Derick. The church was anonymously funded by Dr. Pusey, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford, a leading advocate of the Oxford Movement. A tall spire, modelled on the spire of St. Mary's, Oxford and pinnacles along the eaves were not built The building was grade I listed on 26 September 1963.[1]

Architectural style

The church is built in a Gothic revival style of dressed stone with ashlar dressings. It has a central tower.[1] The church has four five-light windows described by Pevsner as being 'of great merit, in the style of the 13th century and in glowing colour, nothing yet of Victorian insipidity'.

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