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St. Agnes' Church
Church of Saint Agnes
St Agnes Burmantofts.jpg
Location Burmantofts, Leeds
Country England
Denomination Church of England
History
Status Parish Church
Architecture
Heritage designation Grade II listed building
Style Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking 1886
Completed 1887
Specifications
Materials coursed stone with ashlar dressings
Administration
Parish Burmantofts
Archdeaconry Leeds
Diocese Leeds
Province York

St. Agnes' Church in Burmantofts, 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 to designs by architects Kelly and Birchall of Leeds between 1886 and 1887 with later alterations by Lord Grimthorpe.

Architectural style

St Agnes Burmantofts Interior 1
Interior

The church is of a gothic revival style, built of coursed stone with ashlar dressings. The church has a steeply pitched slate roof with gable ends. The church has a four-bay nave with octagonal piers. The reredos is made 1891 of Burmantofts faience and coloured tiles. The church has a terracotta memorial below west window which commemorates James Holroyd (1839–1890), the founder of the Burmantofts Faience Works, erected 'by his employees'.

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