page_title: Potternewton
section_title: Newton Park Union Church
hierarchical_section_title: Potternewton / History / Newton Hall and Potternewton Hall / Newton Park Union Church
caption_attribution_description: English: Francis Lupton's home prior to 1847 - Dining Hall - Newton Green Hall Estate, Potter-Newton
context_page_description: Potternewton is a suburb and parish between Chapeltown and Chapel Allerton in north-east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is in the Chapel Allerton ward of Leeds City Council.
  Potternewton is bounded by Scott Hall Road to the west, Roundhay Road to the east and Harehills Lane to the north. The main thoroughfare is Chapeltown Road. The suburb is often considered to be part of Chapeltown. On older maps, Potternewton included the Chapeltown and Scott Hall areas and parts of Harehills. Potternewton is an historic village and many older maps prioritise its name over Chapeltown.
context_section_description: As owner of  Newton Hall, Arthur Lupton had supported the Potternewton Independent/Congregationalist Chapel and in 1870, Francis and Darnton "quickly accommodated" the building of a new  Independent/Congregationalist chapel on their estate. The chapel was designed by architect  W.H. Harris. By 1887,  the eastern side of the chapel had a new church abutting it; the Newton Park (Union) Congregational/Baptist Church. It was designed by architect Archibald Neill  in the 14th century Decorated Gothic style. Neill also  designed the estate's shopping parade on Chapeltown Road. By 1952,  the Newton Park Union Church was no longer a church but was in use as the Royal Air Force Association Club  and the original 1870 Lupton family chapel at the rear was the premises of the Old Central Hebrew Congregational Synagogue. 
  Following Darnton Lupton's death in 1873, Francis inherited the estate and the Anglican St Martin's Church was built in 1879 near Newton Hall Lodge.
  In the 1870s, the Potternewton township, covering 1,667 acres about two miles north of Leeds, comprised the villages of New Leeds, part of Buslingthorpe and the hamlets of Gipton, Harehills, and Squire-Pastures.
  Diaries of Katherine Roubiliac Conder (1860–1948), granddaughter of Sir Edward Baines, record her father, Eustace Conder, preaching at Newton Park Chapel in 1874. Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone worshipped there in May 1880. In March 1880, Gladstonian liberalism was at its peak at Newton Park; Sir John Barran talked of himself and Herbert Gladstone, the Liberal M.P. for Leeds, as being "one man". The Leeds Mercury reported on 8 October 1887 that the ceremony of the laying of the foundation stone of the Newton Park Union Church  "will be performed by Mr. J. Barran, M.P. (later Sir), on behalf of the Baptists, and by Mr. E. Crossley, M.P., on behalf of the Congregationalists”.
  The Georgian Newton Green Hall was part of Newton Park in the 1930s. 
  By the outbreak of the Second World War, Newton Hall and Potternewton Hall had been demolished and replaced by the city's largest private housing estate.
  Francis Lupton's  son, politician Francis Martineau Lupton inherited the family estate where his daughter, Olive Middleton (née Lupton) grew up at Rockland.
caption: Interior view of Newton Green Hall
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