St Cross Church, Middleton

The Church of St Cross is in Middleton, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is an active Anglican church and part of the Armley deanery in the archdeaconry of Leeds, Diocese of Leeds. HistoryThe parish of St Cross was taken out of the extensive parish of Middleton after the Middleton council housing estate was built in the 1920s and the population in the area increased dramatically. St Mary's Church acquired a site on which to build a mission church and a temporary wooden building was erected in 1925 with funds from the Leeds Church Extension Society. A permanent church was built in 1933 with funding from the diocese. St Cross was created a separate parish in July 1935. A complete set of coins for 1933, including a 1933 penny, one of only seven known examples, was buried when the church's foundation stone was laid. The coin was stolen in 1970. StructureThe church was designed in the Early Christian style by F. L. Charlton for the Church Forward Movement. It has a concrete frame and is clad in brick. ExteriorThe church has five bays with narrow single light rounded windows to the nave and a clerestory of narrow closely spaced rounded arched windows. The church has a north east Italianate campanile-style bell tower with a single bell. The tower is 60 feet high.

The Church of St Cross is in Middleton, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is an active Anglican church and part of the Armley deanery in the archdeaconry of Leeds, Diocese of Leeds. HistoryThe parish of St Cross was taken out of the extensive parish of Middleton after the Middleton council housing estate was built in the 1920s and the population in the area increased dramatically. St Mary's Church acquired a site on which to build a mission church and a temporary wooden building was erected in 1925 with funds from the Leeds Church Extension Society. A permanent church was built in 1933 with funding from the diocese. St Cross was created a separate parish in July 1935. A complete set of coins for 1933, including a 1933 penny, one of only seven known examples, was buried when the church's foundation stone was laid. The coin was stolen in 1970. StructureThe church was designed in the Early Christian style by F. L. Charlton for the Church Forward Movement. It has a concrete frame and is clad in brick. ExteriorThe church has five bays with narrow single light rounded windows to the nave and a clerestory of narrow closely spaced rounded arched windows. The church has a north east Italianate campanile-style bell tower with a single bell. The tower is 60 feet high.