Potternewton

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 Park
Skate park in Potternewton Park

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 the name Potternewton over Chapeltown.[1]

History
1842 map of most of Potternewton; Potternewton Hall to the left (encased in a semi-circle driveway), Newton Hall, Newton Green Hall, their lodges, farms and out-buildings

As Lords of the Manor of Potternewton, the Earl of Mexborough and Earl Cowper had released parts of their estates by the 1700s and were in and out of court up until 1801 disputing who had legal entitlement to ownership of the land. Around this time, James Brown, a Mesne lord under Earl Cowper, owned the copyhold of much of the area of what became known as Chapeltown.[2][3][4]

By the early 19th century a number of mansions, some with extensive grounds, had been established around Potternewton and Chapeltown roads: James Brown owned Harehills Grove (later named Potternewton Park Mansion),[5] the Scott family owned the mid-18th century Scott Hall[6] and the copyhold and leasehold of Potternewton Lodge, Potternewton Hall and the adjacent Newton Hall Estates were all owned by the Lupton family. Old deeds and maps of sale plans of the Earl of Mexborough's Potternewton landholdings show that in 1845, the copyhold of the Newton Hall estate was owned by Arthur Lupton, a Mesne lord under the earl. The map shows that surveyor Henry Teal had divided the land remaining in the earl's possession into lots for sale.[7][8][9]

In 1870, the Potternewton township, covering 1,667 acres about two miles north of Leeds, comprised the villages of New Leeds and part of Buslingthorpe, and the hamlets of Gipton, Harehills, and Squire-Pastures. Part of its name is from supposedly Roman, "very ancient pottery", found in the vicinity. Coal was mined and stone was quarried. Over time the manor belonged to the Mauleverers, the Scotts of Scott Hall, the Hardwicks and in 1870 belonged to the Earl of Mexborough.[10]

The Lupton family's Newton Park Estate, Potternewton Hall and Newton Green Hall
Potternewton Hall, built c. 1720, home of the Lupton family. Photo c. 1860–70

Potternewton Hall was a mansion built by the Barker family c. 1720 "for the Widow to retire to".[11] In 1838, it was the residence of Darnton Lupton, his wife Anna and Darnton's daughter from his first marriage. Darnton and Anna had five boys of their own.[12][13][14]

Darnton Lupton's brother Arthur acquired the adjacent Newton Hall and its surrounding parkland, farmhouse, fields, farm, stables and cottages in the 1840s. Darnton's brother Francis lived at Potternewton Hall from 1847, purchasing the freehold of the estate by 1860. Francis raised his family at the hall until c. 1860. In 1870, Francis and Darnton purchased the adjoining Newton Hall estate from their brother.[15][16][17][18][19][20][21]

Arthur Lupton arranged for a Congregationalist chapel to be built on his land in 1847.[22][23] In 1870, he sold the estate to his brothers who built a new chapel on Chapeltown Road. Following Darnton Lupton's death in 1873, Francis inherited the bulk of the estate and oversaw the building of the Anglican St Martin's Church in 1879 near the Newton Hall Lodge.[24] When Francis Lupton died in 1884, his wife Frances refused to take up the position of executor which passed to her four sons.[25] The family chapel was grandly re-built in 1887 as the Newton Park Union Church.[26][27]

Published diaries of Katherine Roubiliac Conder (1860–1948), granddaughter of Sir Edward Baines, record that her father, Eustace Conder, preached at Newton Park Chapel in 1874 where Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone was worshipping in May 1880. In March 1880, Gladstonian liberalism was at its peak at Newton Park; in 1880, Sir John Barran talked of himself and Herbert Gladstone, the Liberal M.P. for Leeds in 1880, as being "one man".[28] Sir John Barren laid the foundation stone of the Newton Congregational Chapel in 1870 and its successor, the Newton Park Union Church in 1887. His son, Sir Rowland Hirst Barran was the M.P. for North Leeds (the Newton Park area) from 1902 to 1918.[29][30][31]

Francis Lupton lived with his mother Ann at Newton Green Hall Estate prior to his marriage in 1847

On the opposite side of Chapeltown Road was the Georgian Newton Green Hall and estate which, in the 1930s, remained a part of Newton Park.[32] In the years prior to his 1847 marriage, Francis Lupton was living with his mother Ann at Newton Green Hall which adjoined both Potternewton Hall and Newton Hall, the homes of his brother's Darnton and Arthur respectively.[33][34][35]

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.[15][16][17][18][36][20]

Portion of 1920 Newton Park map showing property inherited by sisters Olive Middleton and Anne Lupton

Olive Middleton (née Lupton) grew up at Rockland in Potternewton. Her father, politician Francis Martineau Lupton, developed his family's estate[37] and built a shopping parade built on Chapeltown Road in 1891.[38][39][16] Some months after her birth in 1881, Olive Middleton's great grandfather, Dr Thomas Michael Greenhow, died at Newton Hall as did his second wife, Anne Greenhow (née Lupton) in 1905.[40][41][42]

Potternewton Park Mansion and park
Built c. 1817. The mansion at Potternewton Park from a postcard postmarked October 1909.

Harehills Grove, another mansion, was built around 1817 for the woollen merchant James Brown. The Jowitt family owned it in 1861 and they later sold the 750 acre estate and back-to-back terraced houses were built on it. The house and its 30-acre park were bought by the Leeds Corporation to create Potternewton Park in 1900. By 1906 the house had been renamed Potternewton Mansion and was opened to the public in 1906. After 1929 the house was used for educational purposes.[5]

The Leeds Carnival procession starts and finishes at Potternewton Park.

21st century

Transport Direct uses the names Potternewton and Chapeltown for separate areas. Potternewton is the small area around the north of Scott Hall Road around the Scott Hall Road/Potternewton Lane roundabout as most of the area is classified today as Chapeltown. West Yorkshire Metro and Transport Direct also identify the area as being in this location. Potternewton Lane is served by bus service 7.

Millfield Primary School, formerly known as Potternewton Primary, is located on Potternewton Mount.

St Martin's Church
St Martin's Church, Newton Park Estate (1879–81)

St Martin's Church, the Anglican parish church, off Chapeltown Road was built in 1879–1881 on land owned by the Lupton family.[38][43] The formation of the parish was the result of a meeting held at the Leeds Church Institute in April 1876, presided over by the Vicar of Leeds, Dr Gott. The site for St Martin's had been confirmed in June 1876. The church was designed by Adams & Kelly of Leeds and was consecrated in 1881.[44] It was built of stone from local quarries. The church's stained glass was designed by Charles Eamer Kempe.[45][46]

The original design had a steeple, but lack of funds prevented its construction. St Martin's Church has a mainly West Indian congregation.[47][48][49]

People of Potternewton

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