page_title: Robert Mawer
section_title: St Mark, Woodhouse, Leeds, 1853 and 1856
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Mawer / Works / St Mark, Woodhouse, Leeds, 1853 and 1856
caption_attribution_description: English: Gateway Church, occupying St Mark's Church, St Mark's Road, Woodhouse, Leeds.
context_page_description: Robert Mawer was an architectural sculptor, based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. He specialised in the Gothic Revival and Neoclassical styles. He created the Neoclassical keystone heads on St George's Hall, Bradford and on Moorland's House, Leeds, and was working on the keystone heads at Leeds Town Hall when he died. He was a founding member of the Mawer Group of Leeds architectural sculptors, which included his wife, Catherine Mawer, his son Charles Mawer, and his apprentices William Ingle, Matthew Taylor and Benjamin Payler, who all became sculptors with their own careers. Many of the buildings enhanced with sculpture by Robert Mawer are now listed by Historic England.
context_section_description: This is a Grade II listed building, in Woodhouse, Leeds, West Yorkshire. It was designed by architects Peter Atkinson and Richard Hey Sharp in 1823, consecrated on 13 January 1826, and closed in 2001. It was bought by Gateway Church in 2008, and reopened on 5 June 2014. Prior to and during the refurbishment many of the contents were removed including the pulpit, organ and most of the pews. The font is in storage within the building. Robert Mawer carved the font in 1853. The Leeds Intelligencer described the font thus:
  "A very elaborately carved font of Caen stone has been erected ... It is of an octagonal shape, of the perpendicular style of architecture, so as to correspond with the church, designed by Cuthbert Brodrick, Esq., the architect of the New Town Hall, and executed by Mr Mawer of Oxford Place. On four alternate sides are the several emblems of the Four Evangelists, viz., the figure of an angel with a flying scroll - a lion, with wings - an ox, with wings - and a flying eagle, in allusion to the passage in the 1st of Ezekiel. The four intervening sides have the figure of a lamb carrying the cross with a scroll - the pelican feeding her young from her own breast - the cross, around which is the crown of thorns - and the monogram I.H.S. At the several corners are the figures of angels with blank shields. All the figures are deeply engraven, and the whole does great credit both to the designer and executor. Around the top is the name of the donor, in Old English characters upon a wreath of leaves, as follows: This font is humbly offered to the glory of God, by Charles Gascoyne Maclea - 1853 (Leeds Intelligencer 5 November 1853)
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caption: St Mark, Woodhouse
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