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[[File:Potternewton Hall Estate; home of Olive Middleton (nee Lupton) and her cousin Baroness von Schunck (nee Kate Lupton).jpg|thumb|Potternewton Hall, built {{circa|1720}}, home of the [[Lupton family]]. Photo {{circa|1860–70}}]]
[[File:Potternewton Hall Estate; home of Olive Middleton (nee Lupton) and her cousin Baroness von Schunck (nee Kate Lupton).jpg|thumb|Potternewton Hall, built {{circa|1720}}, home of the [[Lupton family]]. Photo {{circa|1860–70}}]]
Potternewton Hall was built by the Barker family {{circa|1720}}.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Barker |first1=E. |title=The Will of M. A. M. Faber, with Facts and Observations Proving Its ... |url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=q31hAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA5&dq=edmund++barker++estate++++potternewton&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjx5eG09e7fAhXbV30KHeEkANAQ6AEILTAB#v=onepage&q=edmund%20cowper%20%20%20barker%20%20estate%20%20%20%20potternewton&f=false |publisher=Edmund Henry Barker |year=1821 |accessdate=15 January 2019 |pages=24–28}}</ref> In 1837, it was the residence of the widowed [[Lupton family|Darnton Lupton]] and his daughter. Lupton married his second wife in 1838 and remained at the hall with their family.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Poll Book of the Leeds Borough Election, July, 1837. |date=1837 |publisher=R. Perring |page=28 |url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=g_g7B6FxaTgC&pg=RA1-PA28&dq=Darnton+Lupton++Potternewton++hall&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiKitihq8nqAhVSzjgGHUjdAB0Q6AEwAnoECAEQAg#v=onepage&q=Darnton%20Lupton%20%20Potternewton%20%20hall&f=false |quote=Lupton, Darnton, house and land, Potternewton Hall, (Reg. Leeds)}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Pullan |first1=M. |title=The Monuments of the Parish Church of St. Peter-at-Leeds |date=2007 |publisher=Maney Publishing for The Thoresby Society [and] Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society |isbn=190598152X |url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=i9_VAAAAMAAJ&q=Potternewton++Lupton&dq=Potternewton++Lupton&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjFlKGVo_niAhXMbn0KHV9EDl0Q6AEIUzAJ |accessdate=21 June 2019|quote=...His [Darnton's] second wife was Anna Jane Busk...They married in 1838 and lived at Potternewton Hall with their six children." .}}</ref>
Potternewton Hall was built by the Barker family {{circa|1720}}.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Barker |first1=E. |title=The Will of M. A. M. Faber, with Facts and Observations Proving Its ... |url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=q31hAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA5&dq=edmund++barker++estate++++potternewton&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjx5eG09e7fAhXbV30KHeEkANAQ6AEILTAB#v=onepage&q=edmund%20cowper%20%20%20barker%20%20estate%20%20%20%20potternewton&f=false |publisher=Edmund Henry Barker |year=1821 |accessdate=15 January 2019 |pages=24–28}}</ref> In 1837, it was the residence of the widowed [[Lupton family|Darnton Lupton]] and his daughter. Lupton married his second wife in 1838 and remained at the hall with their family.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Poll Book of the Leeds Borough Election, July, 1837. |date=1837 |publisher=R. Perring |page=28 |url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=g_g7B6FxaTgC&pg=RA1-PA28&dq=Darnton+Lupton++Potternewton++hall&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiKitihq8nqAhVSzjgGHUjdAB0Q6AEwAnoECAEQAg#v=onepage&q=Darnton%20Lupton%20%20Potternewton%20%20hall&f=false |quote=Lupton, Darnton, house and land, Potternewton Hall, (Reg. Leeds)}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Pullan |first1=M. |title=The Monuments of the Parish Church of St. Peter-at-Leeds |date=2007 |publisher=Maney Publishing for The Thoresby Society [and] Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society |isbn=190598152X |url=https://books.google.com.au/books?id=i9_VAAAAMAAJ&q=Potternewton++Lupton&dq=Potternewton++Lupton&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjFlKGVo_niAhXMbn0KHV9EDl0Q6AEIUzAJ |accessdate=21 June 2019|quote=...Sarah Lupton died young [1834]...His [Darnton's] second wife was Anna Jane Busk...They married in 1838 and lived at Potternewton Hall with their six children." .}}</ref><ref name="Burke's Peerage">{{cite book |title=Burke's Peerage Second World War Edition |url=https://www.burkespeerage.com/search_results.php?results=7 |publisher=Burke's Peerage |accessdate=4 January 2019|page=2944 |quote=...Edward, Baron von Schunck (born 31 January 1816) married Kate (1833–1913) {{Snd}} 26 March 1867...daughter of Darnton Lupton ...}}</ref>


Lupton's brother Arthur acquired Newton Hall and its surrounding parkland, farmhouse, fields, farm, stables and cottages in the 1840s. Their brother [[Lupton family|Francis]] lived at Potternewton Hall from 1847 and had purchased the freehold of the estate by 1860. He raised his family at the hall until {{circa|1860}}. In 1870, Francis and Darnton Lupton purchased the Newton Hall estate from their brother.<ref name="YorkPress">{{cite news|last1=Laycock|first1=Mike|title=Duchess of Cambridge's links with stately home near York revealed|url=http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/11860310.Kate_s_links_to_North_Yorkshire_revealed/|work=The Press |date= 17 March 2015|accessdate=19 March 2015}}</ref><ref name="CCAA">{{cite web|last1=|first1=|title=Chapeltown Conservation Area Appraisal|url=http://www.leeds.gov.uk/docs/chapeltown%20caa.pdf|publisher= Leeds City Council|accessdate=20 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181026143133/https://www.leeds.gov.uk/docs/chapeltown%20caa.pdf |archivedate=26 October 2018}}</ref>
Lupton's brother Arthur acquired Newton Hall and its surrounding parkland, farmhouse, fields, farm, stables and cottages in the 1840s. Their brother [[Lupton family|Francis]] lived at Potternewton Hall from 1847 and had purchased the freehold of the estate by 1860. He raised his family at the hall until {{circa|1860}}. In 1870, Francis and Darnton Lupton purchased the Newton Hall estate from their brother.<ref name="YorkPress">{{cite news|last1=Laycock|first1=Mike|title=Duchess of Cambridge's links with stately home near York revealed|url=http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/11860310.Kate_s_links_to_North_Yorkshire_revealed/|work=The Press |date= 17 March 2015|accessdate=19 March 2015}}</ref><ref name="CCAA">{{cite web|last1=|first1=|title=Chapeltown Conservation Area Appraisal|url=http://www.leeds.gov.uk/docs/chapeltown%20caa.pdf|publisher= Leeds City Council|accessdate=20 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181026143133/https://www.leeds.gov.uk/docs/chapeltown%20caa.pdf |archivedate=26 October 2018}}</ref>

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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 its name over Chapeltown.[1]

History

1842 map of Potternewton; Potternewton Hall, Newton Hall, Newton Green Hall, lodges, farms and out-buildings

Potternewton was supposedly name from Roman 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.[2]

Lords of the manor, the Earl of Mexborough and Earl Cowper sold parts of their estates by the 1700s and litigated until 1801 as to who legally owned the land. Around this time, James Brown owned the copyhold of much of the area that became known as Chapeltown.[3][4][5]

By the early 19th century a number of mansions, some with extensive grounds, had been established around the Potternewton and Chapeltown roads: James Brown owned Harehills Grove which was renamed Potternewton Park Mansion,[6] the Scott family owned the mid-18th century Scott Hall[7] and Potternewton Lodge, Potternewton Hall and the adjacent Newton Hall Estates were owned by the Lupton family. The Earl of Mexborough's Newton Hall estate landholdings were owned by Arthur Lupton in 1845. The surveyor Henry Teal divided the land remaining in the earl's possession into lots for sale.[8][9]

Potternewton Hall, built c. 1720, home of the Lupton family. Photo c. 1860–70

Potternewton Hall was built by the Barker family c. 1720.[10] In 1837, it was the residence of the widowed Darnton Lupton and his daughter. Lupton married his second wife in 1838 and remained at the hall with their family.[11][12][13]

Lupton's brother Arthur acquired Newton Hall and its surrounding parkland, farmhouse, fields, farm, stables and cottages in the 1840s. Their brother Francis lived at Potternewton Hall from 1847 and had purchased the freehold of the estate by 1860. He raised his family at the hall until c. 1860. In 1870, Francis and Darnton Lupton purchased the Newton Hall estate from their brother.[14][15]

A Congregationalist chapel was built built on Arthur Lupton's land in 1847.[16][17] In 1870, he sold the estate to his brothers and a chapel was built on Chapeltown Road. Following Darnton Lupton's death in 1873, Francis inherited the estate and St Martin's Church was built in 1879 near Newton Hall Lodge.[18] The Lupton family chapel was re-built in 1887 as the Newton Park Union Church.[19][20]

In 1870, the Potternewton township, covering 1,667 acres about two miles north of Leeds, comprised the villages of New Leeds, part of Buslingthorpe and the hamlets of Gipton, Harehills, and Squire-Pastures.

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; Sir John Barran talked of himself and Herbert Gladstone, the Liberal M.P. for Leeds, as being "one man".[21] Sir John Barran laid the foundation stone of the Newton Congregational Chapel in 1870 and its successor, the Newton Park Union Church in 1887.[22]

Interior view of Newton Green Hall

The Georgian Newton Green Hall was part of Newton Park in the 1930s.[23]

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.[24][25][26]

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[27] and built a shopping parade on Chapeltown Road in 1891.[28] 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.[29]

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.[6]

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.[28][30] The parish was formed after a meeting 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, designed by Adams & Kelly of Leeds, was consecrated in 1881.[31] It was built of stone from local quarries. The stained glass was designed by Charles Eamer Kempe.[32][33]

The original design for the church had a steeple, but lack of funds prevented its construction. St Martin's Church has a mainly West Indian congregation.[34][35][36]

People of Potternewton

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