Chapel Allerton, West Riding

Description
Allerton-Chapel or Chapel-Allerton, a township and chapelry in Leeds parish, W. R. Yorkshire. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office of the name of Chapel-Allerton, under Leeds, and it contains the hamlet of Gledhow. Acreage, 2811; population, 4377. The property is much subdivided, and there are many handsome residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon ; net value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Leeds. The church is in the Italian style, and contains a number of stained windows. There are a Wesleyan chapel, erected in 1874, in the Early English style, at a cost of £12,000, Conservative and Liberal clubs, several quarries of good stone, and some charities.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5