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The Church of St Andrew was an Anglican church on Pontefract Road in Stourton. The church replaced a small iron mission and was consecrated on 23rd July 1898. St Andrew's closed around 1973 when the residents of Stourton were displaced to turn it into an industrial area.

Church of St Andrew
The Church of St Andrew in 1910.
About
Status:	Demolished
Denomination:	Church of England
Website:	Church Heritage Record
History
Previous building:	A small iron church
Century built:	19th century
Groundbreaking date:	1 May 1897
Cost:	£6040
Consecrated:	23 July 1898
Closed:	1973
Demolished:	1973
Technical Details
Architectural style:	Gothic
Material:	Brick, red Dumfries stone, Harehills stone
Design and Construction
Architect(s):	Charles Hodgson Fowler
Contractor(s):	Issac Gould
Administartion
Parish:	Hunslet
Diocese:	Leeds
Vicar(s):	A. J. Miller (1883-?)
Curate(s):	Hutchinson (1883-?) G. H. Clark (1898-?)
Location
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Street:	Pontefract Road
Village:	Stourton

 

History

The original St Andrew's Mission Church was founded by Rev. A. J. Miller and his curate, Mr Hutchinson. It opened on 3rd May 1883.

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The iron mission and the Church of St Andrew.

In 1891, the population of Stourton had increased significantly and the Committee of St Andrew Mission procured land and enlisted an architect, Charles H. Fowler, to build a new church to replace the existing building that was commonly known as the "iron mission". The land on which the old building stood had been purchased by the Great Northern Railway to use for a new line through Stourton. Donations for the new church came from Sister Katherine (£300; ~£31,950.30 in 2024), Joshua Tetley & Son (£100; ~£10,650.10 in 2024), W.H. Maude (£100), Mary Collins in memory of Mrs. Urquhart (£100) and John Rhodes (£100).

The cornerstone of St Andrew's was laid on 1st May 1897 by Charles F. Tetley and was followed by a sermon in the old church by Rev. A. J. Miller.

The Church of St Andrew was consecrated by the Bishop of Ripon on 23rd July 1898. The opening ceremony, which started with a procession, was well attended. At the head of the procession from the Board schools to the church was the Middleton Brass Band, followed by local clergy and officials, and at the rear were the Bishop and the curate of the parish, Rev. G. H. Clark. Other clergy included the Venerable Archdeacon Maude, Shrewsbury; the vicars of Hunslet, Rothwell, Woodlesford, Middleton, Garforth, Kirkstall, Holbeck, St. Silas (Hunslet), St. Barnabas (Holbeck), Gawthorpe, St. Paul (Stanningley), Shadwell, St. Frideswide (Oxford), and the Revs. Hewitt, Sutton, and Street. When the procession reached the church, a petition, signed by the vicar of Middleton (the Hon. and Rev. Henry Lysaght) asking the Bishop to consecrate the church, was presented. After the Deed of Conveyance was presented, the Bishop spoke to the congregation:

Dearly beloved in the Lord, forasmuch as devout and holy men, as well under the law as under the Gospel, moved, either by the secret inspiration of the Blessed Spirit, or by express command of God, or by their own reason and sense of the natural decency of things, have erected houses for the public worship of God, and separated them from all profane and common uses in order to fill men's minds with greater reverence for His glorious Majesty, and affect their hearts with more devotion and humility in His service; which pious works have been approved and graciously accepted by our Heavenly Father. Let us not doubt [that] He will also graciously approve this our godly purpose of setting apart this place, in a solemn manner, to the celebration of the several offices of religious worship; and let us faithfully and devoutly beg his blessing on this our undertaking."

Bishop of Ripon (William Boyd Carpenter), in The Rothwell Times (July 29, 1898)

The Stourton War Memorial was unveiled in the grounds of the church on the 6th August 1921 by Viscount Lascelles. There was a large crowd, including ex-Servicemen, the relatives of the fallen men and the 11th S.E. Troop of Boy Scouts. Viscount Lascelles said, before he unveiled the memorial, that Stourton was right to unveil its memorial later than other parishes as it "avoided the risk of the ceremony being in any sense regarded from the point of view of a triumph over a fallen enemy" and said that when "people looked at the memorial they would be inspired by something of the spirit which those men undoubtedly possessed, and which enabled them to make the greatest sacrifice that they could pay." The Vicar of Leeds, Rev. Bernard O. F. Heywood, dedicated the memorial, then the band of the 7th Leeds Rifles played Chopin's Funeral March, the buglers played the the Last Post, and finally an ex-serviceman placed a wreath on behalf of the Stourton Branch of the National Union of Ex-Service Men.

The site of the church in 2019.

The Church of St Andrew closed in 1973, as the housing in Stourton was demolished to turn the village into an industrial area. The war memorial, which had been in the grounds of the church, was moved to its current position at the junction of Wakefield Road and Pontefract Road around 1975. The land, removal and re-siting of the cenotaph was paid for by a local business, John Waddington Printers.

The church was demolished some time after an unsuccessful application for its demolition by the Church Commisioners in May 1975. It was listed as "the former site of the Church of St Andrew's, Stourton" by April 1978 and is the property of Leeds City Council.

Clergy

Perpetual Curates & Vicars

Name	Year(s)	Notes
Reginald Pattinson	1902-1906	P.C of St Andrew's
William Crawford Allan	1906-21	P.C of Stourton
John Albert Victor Rushworth	1921-1945	P.C of Stourton
William Johnston	1945-1949	Vicar of Stourton
Cyril Ormonde Kennedy	1949-1955	Vicar of Stourton
John Comyn Vaughan Wilkes	1956-1958	Vicar of Hunslet (from 54) with Stourton
Charles Henry Williams	1960-1969	Vicar of Hunslet with Stourton
Anthony James Comber	1969-1973	Vicar of Hunslet with Stourton

Curates

Name	Year(s)	Notes
Rupert Ellwood	1904-1906	C of St Andrew's
Cavendish Moxon	1906-1908	C of St Andrew's
Hubert Everard Elrington Reed (formerly Hubert Everard Wiencke)	1909-1912	C of St Andrew's
Percy Edgar Burn	1919-1922	C of St Andrew's
Neil Strong	1961-1965	C of Hunslet with Stourton
William Richard Darce Chapstick	1964-1967	C of Hunslet with Stourton
Edward David Murfet	1964-1965	C of Hunslet with Stourton
Horace Anthony Matty	1966-1969	C of Hunselt with Stourton

Exterior

War memorial

The Stourton War Memorial is a 16ft high cross made of Portland stone that was once at the entrance of the Church of St Andrew. It was designed by Kitson, Parish and Ledgard and erected by Armitage and Hodgson. It contains the names of 75 servicemen who died in the First World War and 25 who died in the Second World War.

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  The St Andrew's war memorial, now at the junction of Wakefield Road and Pontefract Road.

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  Front panel

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  Left panel

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  Right panel

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  Back panel

1914 - 1918

Name
Arthur Greenhough
David Griffits
John Grove
Clifford Hall
Thomas Harrold
John Thomas Hayes
Harold Hayes
Thomas Heard
Arthur Hill
William Hirst
John Houghton
Walter Kale
John Kelly
Henry Heaton Lawson
Arthur Lax
Albert Edward Ley
Ernest Leporati
Herbert Marshall
Harry Albert Edward Mewis
John William Milner
Wilfred Naylor
George Rands

References

• Church Times (2022) 'Obituary: The Ven. Anthony Comber', 5 August. Available at: https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2022/5-august/gazette/obituaries/obituary-the-ven-anthony-comber (Accessed: 1 July 2024).
• Crockford’s Clerical Directory (1929). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Available at: https://archive.org/details/ccd-1929
• Crockford’s Clerical Directory (1947). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Available at: https://archive.org/details/crockfordscleric0000unse_p4b0/
• Crockford’s Clerical Directory (1973). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Available at: https://archive.org/details/crockfordscleric0000unse_r3d7/
• Edwards, M. (2007) 'Leeds, Stourton and Thwaitgate War Memorial', Roll of Honour. Available at: https://www.roll-of-honour.com/Yorkshire/LeedsStourton.html (Accessed: 1 July 2024).
• H21/472/74/ (1975) Public Access Leeds. Leeds City Council Electronic Information Team. Available at: https://publicaccess.leeds.gov.uk/online-applications/caseDetails.do?caseType=Application&keyVal=ZZZTOJJBXE793 (Accessed: 1 July 2024).
• H22/216/75/ (1975) Public Access Leeds. Leeds City Council Electronic Information Team. Available at: https://publicaccess.leeds.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=ZZZTOEJBXE086 (Accessed: 1 July 2024).
• Marshall, L. (2023) ‘The Leeds suburb that visitors always pronounce wrong’, Leeds Live, 5 March. Available at: https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/best-in-leeds/whats-on-news/leeds-suburb-visitors-always-pronounce-26385185 (Accessed: 1 July 2024).
• Ordnance Survey (1894) Wakefield, sheet 78, 1 inch: 1 mile. Southampton: Ordnance Survey.
• Ordnance Survey (1904) Yorkshire, CCXVIII.11, 25.344 inch: 1 mile. Southampton: Ordnance Survey.
• The Rothwell Times (1882) 'Local Retrospect', 29 December. Available at: https://archive.org/details/1882rothwelltimescomplete27jan2020/page/n105/
• The Rothwell Times (1883) 'St. Andrew's Mission Church, Stourton', 27 April. Available at: https://archive.org/details/1883rothwelltimescomplete/page/n37/
• The Rothwell Times (1891) 'Stourton', 6 November. Available at: https://archive.org/details/1891rothwelltimescomplete/page/n53
• The Rothwell Times (1897a) 'Stourton S Andrew', 10 December. Available at: https://archive.org/details/rothwelltimes1897complete/page/n55/
• The Rothwell Times (1897b) 'Stourton St. Andrew Bazaar', 10 December. Available at: https://archive.org/details/rothwelltimes1897complete/page/n21/
• The Rothwell Times (1898) 'Consecration of Stourton Church by the Bishop of Ripon', 29 July. Available at: https://archive.org/details/1898rothwelltimescomplete/page/n29/
• Skyrack Courier (1921) ‘War Memorial at Stourton’, 12 August, p. 3.
• WYK132936 (2024) ‘Title register for: the former site of the Church of St Andrew, Stourton (Freehold)’. GOV.UK.

External links

• The Church of St Andrew on the Church of England website,
• Stourton's wall memorial on Roll of Honour and Imperial War Museum.