Robert Dennis Chantrell

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Robert Dennis Chantrell (1793 - 1872) was an English church architect, best-known today for designing Leeds Parish Church.

[edit] Early career

Chantrell was born in Newington, Southwark, London. He was a pupil in the office of Sir John Soane from 1807 to 1814, and in 1819 he started a practice in Leeds.

[edit] Architectural work

Surviving buildings by Chantrell include:

alterations to the Leeds Library, including galleries (1821-36)
completion of Rudding Park (c1824)
alterations to St Mary-the-Virgin, Hunslet (1826)
St Stephen, Kirkstall (1828-9)
Emmanuel Church, Lockwood (1828-9)
All Saints, Netherthong (1828-9)
St Peter, Morley (1829-30)
St Matthew, Holbeck (1829-32)
partial reconstruction of All Saints, Pontefract (1832-3)
St Peter, Leeds (Leeds Parish Church) (1837-41)
Christ Church, Skipton (1837-9)
Christ Church, Lothersdale (1838)
St Wilfred, Pool-in-Wharfedale (1839)
the steeple of Holy Trinity, Boar Lane, Leeds (1839)
the neo-Norman bellcote of St John the Baptist, Adel (1839)
St David, Holmbridge (1839-40)
St Lucius, Farnley Tyas (1840)
Holy Trinity, Batley Carr (1841-2)
St Paul, Shadwell (1841-2)
St Mary, Honley (1843)
Holy Trinity, Leven (1843)
St Paul, Denholme Gate (1843-6, with Thomas Shaw)
All Saints, Roberttown (1844-6, with Thomas Shaw)
Holy Trinity, Cowling (1845)
St Mary, Middleton (1846-52)
the tower of St Paul, Halifax (1847)
St Andrew, Keighley (1847-8)
St Paul, Armitage Bridge (1848)

[edit] Sources

Pevsner, Nikolaus; and Radcliffe, Enid [1959] (1967). Yorkshire: The West Riding, 2nd edition, London: Penguin Books.
Wrathmell, Susan; with Minnis, John (2005). Leeds (Pevsner Architectural Guides). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-10736-6.
Linstrum, Derek (1978). West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture. London: Lund Humphries Publishers. ISBN 0-85331-410-1.
Colvin, H M (1954). Biographical Dictionary of English Architects 1660-1840. London: John Murray.