Leeds St Peter, Yorkshire Genealogy

England Yorkshire  Yorkshire Parishes K-R  West Riding of Yorkshire  Leeds St Peter Here is a Complete List of Leeds' chapels, district churches and chapelries for researchers.

Guide to Leeds St Peter, Yorkshire ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Parish History
Leeds, St Peter is an ancient parish from ancient origins (about the 10th century).

"LEEDS (St. Peter), a parish, and liberty, in the W. riding of York, comprising the market-town and borough of Leeds, which has a separate jurisdiction, but is locally in the wapentake of Skyrack; and containing 152,054 inhabitants, of whom 88,741 are in the town, 24 miles (S. W. by W.) from York, and 194 (N. N. W.) from London.

The parish comprises by computation 21,760 acres. Within the limits of the parish are the chapelries [with church registers] of Armley, Beeston, Bramley, Farnley, Chapel-Allerton, Headingley with Burley, Holbeck, Wortley, and Hunslet; also the township of Potter-Newton, and part of the townships of Seacroft and Temple-Newsom.

The Parochial [mother or ancient] church, dedicated to St. Peter, was supposed to have been built on the site of a more ancient structure, in the reign of Edward III., and enlarged in the reigns of Henry VII. and VIII., was entirely rebuilt by subscription in 1838-40.

[The other churches all residing within the parish boundary include the following ones as of 1848:]


 * Leeds St. John the Evangelist - 1634
 * Leeds Holy Trinity - 1721
 * Leeds St. Paul - 1793
 * Leeds St. James - formerly a place of worship belonging to the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion
 * Leeds Quarry Hill, St. Mary - 1824
 * Leeds Christ-Church
 * Leeds St Mark Woodhouse - 1825
 * Leeds St George Mount Pleasant - 1837


 * Leeds St. Luke Northstreet - 1841
 * Leeds St. Saviour - 1845
 * Leeds St. Andrew - 1845
 * Leeds St. Philip - 1847
 * Leeds St. Matthew's Little London - 1854

Other [district] Church of England chapels situated within the boundary of Leeds St Peter (which also search their church registers of baptisms, etc.) included --


 * 1) Armley
 * 2) Beeston
 * 3) Bramley
 * 4) Chapel-Allerton
 * 5) Farnley
 * 6) Hunslet
 * 7) Headingley
 * 8) Holbeck
 * 9) Kirkstall
 * 10) Wortley

There are also places of worship for '''Baptists, the Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists, Methodists of the New Connection, members of the Scottish Church, Unitarians, and Roman Catholics. '''

A more complete list for all churches and chapels up to about 1900 may be found here: Complete List of Leeds' chapels, district churches and chapelries

Online Records
Online data content from chapelry registers of Leeds St Peter exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:

Cemetery Records
Here are some cemetery records which have been indexed, and published online:


 * Becket Street Cemetery - 1845-1987 at Ancestry - 187,000+ entries
 * Leeds Burials - at FindMyPast - 1895-1921 - 10,000 entries
 * Farsley (Leeds), Bagley Lane Burial Ground, Leeds West Yorkshire 1775 to 1892 at The National Archives.gov.uk (partial)
 * Contact: the Administration Office at Lawnswood. Telephone 0113 395 7426 or by e-mail at parks@leeds.gov.uk with;

•the name of the cemetery or crematorium

•the persons name, age and date of death

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Cemetery Records
Here are some cemetery records which have been indexed, and published online:


 * Becket Street Cemetery - 1845-1987 at Ancestry - 187,000+ entries
 * Leeds Burials - at FindMyPast - 1895-1921 - 10,000 entries
 * Farsley (Leeds), Bagley Lane Burial Ground, Leeds West Yorkshire 1775 to 1892 at The National Archives.gov.uk (partial)
 * Contact: the Administration Office at Lawnswood. Telephone 0113 395 7426 or by e-mail at parks@leeds.gov.uk with;

•the name of the cemetery or crematorium

•the persons name, age and date of death

Civil Registration
Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Online Records
Online data content from chapelry registers of Leeds St Peter exists at some of the following websites and for the specified ranges of years:

[Under construction!

The List of Leeds churches to be added to the above chart/list:

Leeds Christ-Church, Meadow-lane - 1824 Leeds Holy Trinity - 1721 - FHL has from 1813 only Leeds All Saints, York Rd - 1850 Leeds St. Andrew Cavendish - 1845 Leeds St Barnabas, Brewery Field - 1855 Leeds St Hilda - 1881 Leeds St. James - see Horsforth Leeds St. John the Evangelist - 1631 Leeds St. Luke North Street - 1841 Leeds St Mary, Quarry Hill - 1826 Leeds St. Matthew Camp Rd - 1847 Leeds St. Paul - 1793 - FHL has from 1813 only Leeds St Peter* - 1572 Leeds St. Philip - 1848 Leeds St. Saviour - 1845 Leeds St Thomas - 1841

The list of Leeds' disctrict churches/chapelries:


 * Armley St Bartholomew - 1644


 * Beeston - 1720 - FHL has some for 1700's only *Bramley - *Burley - 1630 *Burmantofts St Stephen - 1854 *Buslingthorpe St Michael - 1854


 * Chapel-Allerton - 1724 *Farnley - 17241813


 * Headingley - 1717 FHL has some for 1700's


 * Holbeck - 1717 - FHL has from 1764 only


 * Holbeck St Matthew - 1830 *Horsforth St James - 1847


 * Hunslet - 1686 - FHL has from 1764? only *Hunslet St Jude - 1853


 * Kirkstall - 1829 *Mount Pleasant St. George - 1837 *Seacroft - 1846 *Sheepscar - 1866


 * Wortley (New) St John the Baptist - 1787 - FHL has from 1851 only


 * Wortley-de-Leeds - 1879 *Woodhouse St. Mark - 1826 *Woodside - see Horsforth

This ancient parish (AP) was created before 1813. Church of England records began in 1730 (Holy Trinity), 1733 (St. John The Evangelist), 1572 (St. Peter).

Probate records
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Yorkshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.


 * England Jurisdictions 1851
 * Vision of Britain