St Saviour Church, Richmond Hill

St Saviour
St Saviour
St Saviour Church
	53°47′30″N 1°31′34″W / 53.7918°N 1.526°W
Location	Richmond Hill, Leeds
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Churchmanship	Anglo-Catholic
History
Status	Parish church
Architecture
Heritage designation	Grade I listed
Designated	26 September 1963
Architect(s)	John Macduff Derick
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival architecture
Groundbreaking	1842
Completed	1845
Specifications
Materials	Dressed stone
Administration
Province	Province of York
Diocese	Diocese of Leeds
Archdeaconry	Archdeaconry of Leeds
Deanery	East Leeds
Parish	Richmond Hill
Clergy
Priest(s)	Vacant

St Saviour Church in Richmond Hill, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds.

History edit

The church was built between 1842 and 1845 to designs by architect John Macduff Derick. The church was anonymously funded by Edward Bouverie Pusey, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford, a leading advocate of the Oxford Movement. A tall spire, modelled on the spire of St Mary's, Oxford and pinnacles along the eaves were not built. The building was Grade I listed on 26 September 1963.^[1]

Present day edit

The parish stands in the Anglo-Catholic tradition of the Church of England.

Architectural style edit

The church is built in a Gothic revival style of dressed stone with ashlar dressings. It has a central tower.^[1] The church has four five-light windows described by Pevsner as being 'of great merit, in the style of the 13th century and in glowing colour, nothing yet of Victorian insipidity'.