All Souls’ (Hook Memorial) church will be open to visitors on Thursday: 18:30 – 20:00; Friday: 10:00 – Noon & 14:00 – 16:00; Saturday: 10:00 – 13:00; Sunday: 10:00 – Noon & 14:00 – 16:00. On the Sunday, an Anglican Mass will take place from 11:00 – Noon; an Ethiopian Orthodox service of the Word [...]

Treasures Revealed at All Souls’ (April 30th – May 8th) begins with a “Come and Play” the Isaac Abbott Organ from 10:00 – 12:00 and from 14:00 – 16:00.  All visitors warmly welcomed, not just organists! At 12:30, Philip Tordoff will play a recital. Donations invited for the recital, admission and guide leaflets free. Please [...]

As part of Treasures Revealed 2011 (30th April-8th May) we plan to show a display of parish community wedding photos. You don’t have to have been married in All Souls’ or even in Leeds – we want to show the sheer range of the wedding experience of the Woodhouse/Blenheim/Little London/All Souls’ parish community. To avoid [...]

Many thanks to the leaders and members of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church for allowing “Edward Carpenter’s Leeds” conference members to visit the font during their service on Saturday. For anyone staying overnight in Leeds who hasn’t seen the panels yet, the Sung Mass on Sunday 5th is at 11:00, followed by coffee until around [...]

Visitors to the “Edward Carpenter’s Leeds” day at the university on Saturday September 4th are welcome to visit the Church between 09:00 and 10:00 and see the font canopy panels Emily Ford painted as a thanksgiving for her own baptism in 1890, at the age of 39. There will be an Ethiopian Orthodox Mass in [...]

Mass will be said in the Lady Chapel at 10:00. All welcome. The “Treasures Revealed” display is still up in church – come and visit Gilbert Scott’s last church masterpiece, and the Feminist Font!

On Saturday May 8th, the Leeds Guild of Singers perform “In a strange Land”, featuring songs by musical director Graham Coatman about arrivals and departures, strangeness and familiarity. The concert begins at 5pm and will be followed by multi-cultural food ~ at least West Indian, Ethiopian and Scottish guaranteed! Prices (tickets or at the door): [...]

The church will be open on Wednesday May 5th, 10:00 – Noon, and 14:00 – 16:00. Displays of All Souls’ past and present; transcription of the 1893 “Handbook to the buildings of the Hook Memorial” available. Architecture and artistry by George Gilbert Scott, John Oldrid Scott, R.J. Johnson, A. Crawford Hick, Skidmore, C.E. Kempe, Clayton [...]

All Souls’ opens its doors today on Day #1 of Treasures Revealed in Leeds. From 10 – 12 and 2-4, organists are welcome to come and play the organ, described by Ouseley as the finest he’d played. The church is open to non-organists too: walk around and look at some of the best work of [...]

The ornate font-cover in the baptistry was painted by Emily Ford, a member of the congregation in the 1890s. Ms Ford (had the term ‘Ms’ been around in her day) was a member of a Quaker family, who were involved both in the Abolition of the Slave Trade and in Women’s Suffrage (votes for women). [...]