Leeds, GB

St Mark

St Mark is the last to survive of the three ‘Million' or Church Commissioner's churches built in Leeds. With the aid of the First Parliamentary Grant to the Commissioners for New Churches, following the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, Parliament approved £1 million to build churches in industrial areas to tackle the perceived threat of civil unrest caused by the mass migration from the countryside into the rapidly expanding towns.

About this building

For more information visit on this building visit www.explorechurches.org/church/st-mark-leeds

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All Souls

All Souls was completed in 1880 as a memorial to Walter Farquhar Hook, the Vicar of Leeds who was responsible and famous for the growth of Anglicanism in the city. George Gilbert Scott, perhaps the greatest ecclesiastical architect of the time, designed All Souls on a grand scale, having in mind the nave of one of the great Yorkshire abbeys. He died two days after completing his plans, his design being then carried out by his son, John Oldrid Scott.

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New Synagogue in Leeds

The New Synagogue in Leeds is an Ashkenazi synagogue built between 1928 and 1932. The synagogue was restored in 1938 and 1997-98. In use until 1985, this brick synagogue in the Art Deco style now serves as an educational Institution.

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