Picture of All Souls Church, Leeds.All Souls Church Leeds is a large Victorian stone built church and part of the church of England, that is located next to Blenheim Lodge on Blackman Lane.
This C of E church has a few interesting details, it was built by public subscription, as a memorial to Dr W. F. Hook, Vicar of Leeds for some 22 years and later Dean of Chichester. It was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, "to stem the tide of spiritual destitution" in the area, and is the last church he designed before his death in 1878: his son, John Oldrid Scott, took over the supervision of the building.
The foundation stone was laid in September 1876, the church was consecrated on the 29th of January 1880.
Between 1968 and 1974 part of the church was used as the BBC Leeds TV studios, primarily for the nightly local news programme Look North. In 1974 the BBC moved to studios nearby at Broadcasting House, on Woodhouse Lane. I did not move to Yorkshire till much later so I never saw any of these programmes.
Normally I would have been further back to get this photo, however there is a building quite close to it, so until I get a wider lens this is it.
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Stately.. I'm not sure of scale, is this quite large? Certainly beautiful...
ReplyDeleteVery nice! I love the somber tone that is set by the use of black and white.
ReplyDeleteIt looks great here. Another thing you could try is to shoot in the portrait position. Set up the shot, turn off the auto focus, take three, or a few more photos,then use any stitching software to stitch the photos together. All you have to do then is to crop the photo. I use that technique all the time.
ReplyDeleteI have a photo from a different angle.
ReplyDeleteI THINK it's the same church- taken about 1917. How can I send the image to you, please?
g.townes@bigpond.net.au
What a beautiful photo of our beautiful church (I am the priest in charge). I like this very much. If you'd like to come in and take some of the amazing interior, let me know on vicar@allsoulsleeds.org.uk
ReplyDeleteBTW, Look North didn't transmit from the church - as far as I know, before my time - but from Tennant Hall, the former church schoolrooms/halls just beyond, down what is now the car park.
And yes - it is large and stately and beautiful - and very friendly!
Alice