Alfred Hill Thompson

Alfred Hill Thompson, ARIBA (1839 – 19 May 1874) was an English architect in the Gothic Revival and Arts and Crafts styles, who specialised in small schools and chapels in the Yorkshire area.

In partnership with Isaac Thomas Shutt he co-designed the Church of All Saints, Harlow Hill, completed in 1871.

In 1851 the family was living at 134 Upper Kirkgate, Leeds, Thompson was aged 13, the eldest of five children.

[20] In 1972 the Benton Chapel was renamed the Trinity Church because it was thenceforth occupied by Baptists, Congregationalists and Methodists working together.

[21][22] This is a Grade II listed building, designed by Thompson in partnership with Isaac Thomas Shutt (1818–1879).

It has a "circular bell tower reminiscent of Irish bell-houses"[1] transepts and an apsoidal chancel.

[24] The chapel was demolished around 1979 and is now a car park for the Sunday school building, which was converted into the current church.

This old school building now has a hung ceiling, concealing the tops of the tall windows and the interior roof structure.

It had two front doors and two staircases, and at the back a one-storey school room, a kitchen and a vestry.