Potternewton also Potter Newton is a suburb and parish between Chapeltown and Chapel Allerton in north-east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

On older maps, Potternewton included the Chapeltown and Scott Hall areas and parts of Harehills.

Potternewton is an historic village and many older maps prioritise its name over Chapeltown.

The name appears with the addition of 'potter' in the thirteenth century, as Pottersneuton, Neuton Potter, Potterneuton and Potter Newton because a pottery industry had developed to distinguish it from many other villages called Newton in the country.

[10] Woollen merchant James Brown owned Harehills Grove, which was built around 1817.

[11] The Jowitt family who owned the 750-acre estate in 1861, sold it and back-to-back terraced houses were built on it.

[12][13] His brother, Francis, lived at Potternewton Hall from 1847 and had purchased the freehold of the estate by 1860.

In 1870, Francis and Darnton Lupton purchased the Newton Hall estate from their brother Arthur.

By 1887, Newton Park Union Church, designed in the 14th century Decorated Gothic style by architect Archibald Neill, had been built at the east side of the chapel.

By 1952, after deconsecration, the church was used as the Royal Air Force Association Club and became a Sikh temple in the 1960s.

[37] The Leeds Mercury reported on 8 October 1887 that the ceremony of the laying of the foundation stone of the Newton Park Union Church "will be performed by Mr. J. Barran, M.P.

West Yorkshire Metro and Transport Direct also identify the area as being in this location.