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Dr Hook's New Church, The National Context
Heritage Open Day: This lecture places the new Leeds Parish Church, opened in 1841, in the context of Anglican church-building in late-Georgian England and reveals just how innovative the building was at the time. This is the second of a series of three lectures, exploring fascinating aspects of the origins and history of the outstandingly important Grade 1 listed Leeds Minster (formerly Leeds Parish Church). When the present building opened in 1841 not only was it the largest church to be built in England since the completion of St Paul's Cathedral in 1710, but the influence of its design and the liturgy that the Vicar of Leeds, Dr Hook introduced, was to spread across the Anglican world.
Sun 8 Sep:1215-1315; Free Entry.
Leeds Minster, 2-6 Kirkgate, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS2 7DJ
Sun 8 September
Website:
www.heritageopendays.org.uk/submission-event//dr-hook-s-new-church-the-national-context.html