1886-7. By Kelly and Birchall of Leeds, with alterations and additions by Lord Grimthorpe. Coursed stone, ashlar dressings. Gothic Revival style. PLAN: nave and chancel under one steeply-pitched roof with gable ends. Orientations are ritual. EXTERIOR: low aisles with flat-headed windows with cusped heads to lights and 2-light clerestory windows, circular chancel clerestory window with foundation stone below laid by Mrs Boyd Carpenter, wife of the Bishop of Ripon, 9 July 1887. Large 5-light east window with geometric tracery, 4-light west window. Very slim SE bell tower with buttresses up to belfry with lancets, octagonal stage above with short stone spire. Gabled SW porch in stone with cusped pointed arch.

A mission church was built in Shakespeare Street in 1877 to serve the increasing population in the parish of St Stephen. By 1881 the population was about 4,000, many working for the James Holroyd's Leeds Fireclay Company at the Burmantofts Works. In 1885 the Rev Willard Stansfield described the population as: '..entirely of the artisan class. We can boast of no palatial edifices or detached villas... the area of our district is by no means large, yet we have within our boundary, on the SW the Fever Hospital, on the NW the Leeds Cemetery, on the NE the Smallpox Hospital, and on the SE... hideous chimneys which belch forth over the place dense and sometimes choking filthy smoke, while as a tower for the whole we have on the north the Acme of Nuisance, better known as the Public Destructor' (speech quoted in the Centenary Booklet). Land was bought for the new church in 1886 and in 1887 Lord Grimthorpe suggested alterations and additions to the plans; he gave £500 towards the cost. During 1888 £20 towards the cost of the font was raised in pennies and halfpennies by the Sunday School scholars.