Methodists appoint architects to convert listed church into ‘ethical’ hotel

Leeds Methodist Church Faithful+Gould (1)

Source: Patrick Arends

Work on grade II listed Leeds landmark will cost £15m

The Methodist Church has appointed Pearce Bottomley Architects and HLM to convert a landmark listed church in Leeds into a hotel.

The £15m project will reinvent the grade II-listed church, next to Leeds Town Hall, into The Wesley, a 70-bed, four-star hotel with a restaurant and meeting venue named after Methodism’s founder.

The scheme, on Oxford Place, is part of the church’s ambition to become an “ethical” hotelier, using local suppliers wherever possible and providing rooms for those with access difficulties.

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