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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 village (along with the rest of the Rothwell Urban District) was transferred to the Leeds Metropolitan Council and 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 site of the church in 2019.

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

Exterior

War memorial

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  Front panel

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  Left panel

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  Right panel

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  Back panel

References

• 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/

External links

• The Church of St Andrew on the Church of England website
• Stourton's wall memorial on Roll of Honour