page_title: Mawer and Ingle
section_title: Former Church of St Silas, Hunslet, 1868–1869
hierarchical_section_title: Mawer and Ingle / Works by Mawer & Ingle / Former Church of St Silas, Hunslet, 1868–1869
caption_attribution_description: Pre 1914 postcard of the former St Silas Church, Goodman Street, Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Designed by George Corson, and consecrated in 1869. It was closed in 1952, and later demolished.
context_page_description: Mawer and Ingle was a company of architectural sculptors, based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, between 1860 and 1871. It comprised cousins Charles Mawer and William Ingle, and Catherine Mawer who was mother of Charles and aunt of William. The group produced carvings on many Gothic Revival churches and their internal furnishings. They also worked on civic buildings, warehouses and offices. Many of these are now listed by Historic England, and many of the surviving buildings are within Yorkshire. Their work outside Yorkshire included Trent Bridge.
context_section_description: The former Church of St Silas, on Goodman Street, Hunslet, Leeds, was designed by George Corson for 700–750 sittings in "Gothic style". The foundation stone was laid on 2 July 1868, and the church was consecrated on Thursday 25 November 1869. St Silas was unlisted, and closed in 1952. Demolition plans were announced in 1954, and the building was demolished in 1954 or 1956.
  The church had "a nave, north and south aisles, and chancel with apsoidal end; an organ chamber on one side, and a vestry on the other." There was "a porch on the north and south sides; no tower, but in its place a belfry at the west end." In keeping with available funds, only the nave and one aisle were built initially.
  
  In 1869, the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer reported: 
  "The chancel is finished as an apse of five sides, with a single light lancet window in each, and stone shafts in the angles, with bases corbelled out from the wall, bands and carved caps supporting the ribs of the roof. These ribs form pointed arches spanning the chancel, and meeting in a carved boss at the centre of the apse ... [The pillars of the chancel arch] are carved with natural foliage, the fern being used on one side and the maple on the other. The corbels are formed as shields, bordered with foliage; the emblems of the Fall are carved on the shield on the north side; the emblems of the Redemption on the shield to the south ... The font is of Caen stone, the bowl being octagon on a circular shaft, and carved with heads of the Evangelists, and their emblems on alternate sides of the octagon ... Messrs Mawer & Ingle, carving and font." (Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer 26 November 1869)
   Media related to St Silas Hunslet at Wikimedia Commons
caption: St Silas before 1914
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