Memories of Seacroft Village by Alan Noble

With the expansion of Leeds in the 1950’s after the war – Seacroft was transformed from a village to a “satellite town within the city boundary” containing one of the largest areas of local authority housing in the country.  Building began with the traditional red-brick semis around the Beechwood area, to the North of the […]

Today the Parish of Seacroft includes the areas of Seacroft, Swarcliffe and Whinmoor and is home to around 36000 people on the eastern outer edges of the city of Leeds. You may know that Seacroft contains one of the largest council estates in the UK, but did you know that at the heart of Seacroft is one […]

The ecclesiastical parish of Seacroft was created in the 1840’s. Until that time Seacroft formed part of the parish of Whitkirk. It was John Wilson of Seacroft Hall and the Revd Arthur Martineau, Vicar of Whitkirk, who promoted the plan to build a church at Seacroft and they were major contributors to the cost of […]

We are indebted to the local historian Mr. John Gillenghan of the Skyrack Express for his invaluable assistance in composing this brief history of the Seacroft community. The earliest historical account of Seacroft occurs as a result of the battle of Winwaed (Whinmoor) in 655 AD, which is recorded by the Veberable Bede, historian and […]

As residents began to move into new housing in North Seacroft in the 1950’s a small group of people began to worship in the homes of several different people. When the group became larger, Grange Farm School was hired for two hours each Sunday. This meant a lot of hard work was necessary before and […]

St Paul’s Church is unique within the Parish as it does not have a building in its own right, but shares happily with Whinmoor St Paul’s Church of England (Aided) Primary School.  Since 1967 the Church has enjoyed an excellent relationship with the school and with the wider community who use the premises for a […]

There has been a Church at the heart of Seacroft since 1845, St James on the Seacroft Village Green.  After the post-war expansion of the area and the resulting population growth other churches were built to serve the new estates. The team ministry in Seacroft was created by a pastoral scheme on 9th July 1970. […]