St Chad's Church, Far Headingley

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  • About us
    • Welcome message
    • Meet the team
    • St Chad’s Church – history and architecture
      • The Baptistery
      • The Bell Tower
      • The East Window
      • Chancel, Choir and Nave
      • The Organ at St. Chad’s
      • The Lady Chapel / Chapel of St. Oswald
      • The Reredos
      • St. Oswald’s Church
      • Architectural images
    • St Chad’s Parish Centre
    • Parish Magazine
    • Our church as venue
    • Our Mission Partners
    • Churches Together in Headingley
    • Parochial Church Council (PCC)
  • Services & events
    • Regular services
    • Calendar of services & events
    • Baptisms at St Chad’s
    • Weddings at St Chad’s
    • Funerals at St Chad’s
    • Worship on the Edge
  • Church groups
    • Bible Reading
    • Bell Ringing
    • Church Choir
    • Mothers’ Union
    • Eco St Chad’s
      • The Green Team
      • Churchyard as wildlife haven
      • Community Churchyard Work Parties
      • Gallery, Eco St Chad’s
    • ‘…another time’
    • Groups & activities – contact list
  • Community groups
    • Memory Cafe
    • Lunch Club
    • Tennis Club
    • Cricket Club
    • Groups & activities – contact list
  • Children & young people
    • Toddler Group
    • Sunday Club Groups
    • Young Families at St Chad’s
    • Brownies, Beavers, Cubs, Scouts & Explorers
    • SCY Club (Youth Club, age 10+)
    • Groups & activities – contact list
  • Giving
    • Giving – why is it important?
    • Make a donation
    • St Chad’s charitable giving
    • Volunteering opportunities
  • Contact us
    • Enquiry
    • How to find us
    • Meet the team
    • Groups & activities – contact list

St Chad’s Church – history and architecture

Photo credit: Peter Farmer

St.Chad’s was built the late 1860s on land which formed part of the Beckett Dennison family’s Kirkstall Grange estate. It was consecrated in January 1868.

Edmund Dennison, MP for the West Riding from 1848 to 1859 was, like many members of the Beckett family a generous supporter of the Church of England. His family had already provided 2 new churches – Holy Trinity, Meanwood and St. Simon in Ventnor Street – and his decision to build St.Chad’s must be seen in the context of Anglican renewal in mid-Victorian Leeds. Leeds was growing very quickly and many new churches and schools were being built in the suburbs. He was supported in his project by his son, the 1st Lord Grimthorpe, who, along with WH Crossland (designer of Rochdale Town Hall), designed the original building.

The Baptistery and the Font

The Bell Tower

Chancel, Choir and Nave

The East Window

The Lady Chapel / Chapel of St. Oswald

The Reredos

The Organ at St. Chad’s

St. Oswald’s Church

Architectural images

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  • About us
    • Welcome message
    • Meet the team
    • St Chad’s Church – history and architecture
    • St Chad’s Parish Centre
    • Parish Magazine
    • Our church as venue
    • Our Mission Partners
      • News from the Marshalls in Malta
    • Parochial Church Council (PCC)
      • PCC Committee Members
  • Services & events
    • Weddings at St Chad’s
    • Regular services
    • Calendar of services & events
    • Baptisms at St Chad’s
    • Funerals at St Chad’s
    • Worship on the Edge
  • Church groups
  • Community groups
  • Children & young people
    • Brownies, Beavers, Cubs, Scouts & Explorers
    • SCY Club (Youth Club, age 10+)
    • Sunday Club Groups
    • Toddler Group
    • Young Families at St Chad’s
  • Giving
    • Giving – why is it important?
    • Make a donation
    • St Chad’s charitable giving
    • Volunteering opportunities
  • Eco St Chad’s
  • Groups & activities – contact list
  • Contact us
    • Enquiry
    • How to find us

                    Thought for the week

St John’s images do not mean anything you like; their sense can be determined.  But they still have an astonishing multiplicity of images.  Otherwise, why write in images rather than in cold factual prose?  It has been said that the purpose of scientific statement is the elimination of ambiguity, and the purpose of symbol the inclusion of it.  We write in symbol when we wish our words to present, rather than analyse or prove, their subject matter.

Austin Farrer, The rebirth of images.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONTACT DETAILS

St Chad’s Church
Otley Road, Far Headingley, Leeds LS16 5JT

Parish Centre Bookings Tel: 0113 230 7665   Email stchadspc@btinternet.com

Parish Office Tel: 0113 274 4322
Email: office@stchads.co.uk

Parish Office opening hours:
Monday 9am – 12 noon
Tuesday 9am – 12 noon
CLOSED WEDNESDAY
Thursday 9am – 12 noon
Friday 9am – 12 noon

MORE NEWS …

Church Times Green Church Award Winners!

We were so proud to find out that St Chad's had won the Green Futures Award at the recent Church Times Green Church Awards.  Find out more here.

Links

St Michael's Church, Headingley

Church of England, Diocese of Leeds

Leeds Church Institute

A Rocha

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