Welcome to the Parish of St Margaret Clitherow, Leeds

The present-day parish covers much of South Leeds and is an amalgamation of three former parishes whose origins go back to the mid-19th century. St Joseph’s Church, Hunslet opened in 1860. It was replaced by a new church in 1971; this closed in 1994 and was demolished in 2005. The site for St Peter’s, Belle Isle was acquired in 1937 but owing to the Second World War a church was not built until 1953, to a design by Charles Fox of Dewsbury. The church was extensively remodelled by Peter Langtry-Langton in 1984. A Mass centre was established at Middleton in the mid-1920s and a church, dedicated to St Philip, opened in 1933. In 1996 this was replaced by the present church, designed by Michael Bateson Associates.