Leylands, Leeds

St Luke's Church (now demolished) was built in 1841 on the corner of Skinner Lane and North Street.

[10] As the Jewish community prospered, they (and their businesses and places of worship) moved north to Chapeltown and the area was largely cleared in the slum removal programme of 1936/7.

[7] A remaining 19th-century building is the Smithfield Hotel on North Street, built about 1860 to serve the cattle market on the opposite side of the road, it then became the façade of the offices of Thomas Green & Son's ironworks which stretched east behind it, producing items from lawnmowers to steamrollers.

[11] Templar House at the junction of Lady Lane and Templar Lane, a Grade II listed building, was built in 1840 as a Wesleyan Methodist Association chapel and converted into offices in 1933, latterly used by British Road Services, whose signage is still visible, but the building is now closed and boarded up.

[12] Today, much of the southern portion of the area is used as public car parking for the city centre, but there are some offices, apartments and light industry.

Ley Lands 1726
Street Sign
Lady Beck going south from Skinner Lane, with the former Leylands on the right