This is the church of St Thomas in Stanningley on the edge of Leeds, which I visited earlier today.
I am not sure why I seem to have missed visiting this rather nice old church before, but I had passed it a couple of times over the last few weeks and so stopped off today for a quick look around. The church itself was locked and there was no one around.
St Thomas the church was built in 1841, or more likely completed in 1841 and consecrated that year in the presence of Dr Hook who was then Vicar of Leeds and the Vicar of Bramley in whose parish this then was.
The church itself was built in a Norman style with a tower and is today a listed building being Grade II.
The churchyard is rather overgrown but it does have some rather nice wildflowers, which in my view is no bad thing. It could perhaps do with some churchyard sheep or perhaps goats.
Sometime soon I will try to have a look inside this church.
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I do love peering into these old churches, more so in the UK than in the States for some reason (the UK churches always seemed a bit more interesting somehow). This one makes me think of old churches I saw earlier this year in Warwickshire.
ReplyDelete(I think that mystery tree is a hybrid variety of horse chestnut and buckeye tree called "Fort McNair red horse-chestnut" - it took a few more google tries to find out :)
Seems like it was a beautiful sunny day with blue skies. The overgrown-ness of the church yard only makes it more atmospheric, I think. But you're right, some sheep or goats would be good there, too.
ReplyDeleteIt's in a very peaceful looking location, the churchyard could do with a good strimming though!
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