Robert Dennis Chantrell

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

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.

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-roman tower of the St. Saviour Cathedral in Bruges (Belgium)(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 the Virgin, Middleton, Leeds (1846–52)
• the tower of St Paul, Halifax (1847)
• St Andrew, Keighley (1847-8)
• St Paul, Armitage Bridge (1848)

Sources

• Pevsner, Nikolaus; and Radcliffe, Enid (1967) [1959]. Yorkshire: The West Riding (2nd edition ed.). 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. 
• Webster Christopher, R. D. Chantrell (1793-1872) and the architecture of a lost generation, Reading, Spire Books, 2009.