- Title:
- St Anne's Cathedral
- Object name(s):
- design
- Brief description:
- Perspective drawing in pencil and watercolour of the chancel of St Anne's Cathedral, Leeds, on dark grey paper. The design has been glued around its front edges onto a white card mount.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Designs
- Associated concept:
- Architectural drawings
- Credit line:
- Given by Richard Emerson
- Current reproduction location:
- https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2018LH4763/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 59.9
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 45.5
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 61.7
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 45.6
- Inscription content:
- 'No.44' on reverse of drawing
- Material:
- watercolour
- Object name:
- design
- Object number:
- E.848-2018
- Object production date:
- 1901-1902
- Date - association:
- designed
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1901-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1902-12-31
- Object production person:
- Greenslade, Sydney Kyffin
- Person's association:
- designer
- Object production place:
- Leeds
- Place association:
- designed
- Physical description:
- Perspective drawing in pencil and watercolour of the chancel of St Anne's Cathedral, Leeds, on dark grey paper. The design has been glued around its front edges onto a white card mount.
- Reproduction number:
- 2018LH4763
- Responsible department/section:
- PDP
- Technique:
- drawing
- Technique:
- Pencil and watercolour on paper
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- Text:
- Sydney Kyffin Greenslade (1866-1955) was articled to Edward Ashworth of Exeter in 1884. His first major project was assisting John Henry Eastwood on St Anne’s Cathedral, Leeds, where he was responsible for the detailed interior design work. His work there led to further engagements assisting T. H. Lyon on St Peter’s Cathedral, Adelaide, South Australia, and the South African War Memorial Library at Eton with L. K. Hall (1904). Greenslade was also the designer for the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth (1909). The Roman Catholic St Anne’s Cathedral, Leeds, was designed in 1901-4 by John Henry Eastwood with the assistance of Sydney Kyffin Greenslade. It replaced ‘Old St Anne’s’, designed by John Child in 1838-39, which was demolished to make way for a new tramway due to be built through its site on Cookridge Street. Yorkshire architect Eastwood was chosen as the designer for the new cathedral over J. F. Bentley (architect of Westminster Cathedral) and John Kelly, a prolific local church architect. Eastwood had been former chief assistant to G. Aitchison and F. P. Cockerell, both of whom were also Yorkshiremen working in London. It was a challenging project that required the building to be constructed on a vastly reduced site whilst still fulfilling the needs of a cathedral layout, resulting in an unusually narrow nave with extensive basement offices. Building began in 1901 and the first mass was held on 1st May 1904, before either the high altar or tower were finished. This perspective of the cathedral’s apse shows the building’s style of muscular Gothic Revival interpreted in a modern mode, with unadorned wall planes and bold mouldings. Contemporary commentary was favourable, judging it as an example of the high standard of English ecclesiastical architecture. The Architectural Review (Vol. 13, 1906) noted: 'The leading article in The Brick-builder for January is Mr. Phillip’s second paper on ‘Modern Catholic Church Work in England’. The illustrations all point the finger of scorn at modern Roman Catholic work in other countries outside this singularly favored England. Mr Eastwood’s Cathedral in Leeds has been referred to many times, as have, indeed, nearly all other churches illustrated.' The cathedral was consecrated in 1924 and reordered two further times, in 1954 and 1960-4, which have significantly altered the interior.
- Text reason:
- Summary description
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
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