St. John's Church Source: Robinson's Relics of Old Leeds (1896)
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Victorian Web in a print one. Click on the photograph for a
larger picture.] The Church of St. John the Evangelist, in New
Briggate, is the oldest ecclesiastical edifice of which Leeds
can boast. Built in the time of Charles I., when Gothic art was
at its lowest ebb, it possesses none of that grace and elegance
of design which characterises some of the earlier churches,
though Thoresby, in his enthusiastic way, speaks of it as being
"so noble and stately a structure as scarcely to be paralleled
in England." The plan is somewhat unusual, consisting of a nave,
chancel, and south aisle, with a porch on the south side and a
square tower at the west e