and part of the Seacroft Team Ministry, a group of Anglican churches in Seacroft, Whinmoor and Swarcliffe. The parish is in the Diocese of Ripon and Leeds. Funds to build the church were provided by the Lilley family, who were connected with the Samuel Smith Brewery in Tadcaster. The church was designed by M. J. Farmer and built in 1963, with stone taken from Ripon Cathedral being used to support the altar. Swarcliffe Baptist Church, opposite Swarcliffe Primary School and Nursery, was used as a classroom when the school suffered from overcrowding. Stanks Methodist Church on Barwick Road was opened on 23 February 1869 by Primitive Methodists, but the building was closed and the congregation disbanded in 2007. St. Gregory's Roman Catholic Church (Swarcliffe Drive, opposite Southwood Gate), formally called St. Gregory the Great Church, is in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leeds. The land on which it stands was bought in 1954, but before building work started, mass was held in the priest's council house, with confessions taken through the dining hatch of the kitchen. The first church on the site, a simple red brick hall opened on 11 October 1956, is now occupied by St Gregory's Social Club. On 12 March 1970, an octagonal church of modern design, by A. G. Pritchard Son & Partners, was opened next to the original church. It has simple bench seating for 335 worshippers. St Gregory's Social Club hosts meetings of the Swarcliffe and Stanks' Residents and Tenants' Association. Shops and public houses Swarcliffe Parade once had two rows of shops, but the north row was demolished in 2002. , the remaining parade consists of a Chinese takeaway, a newsagent and off-licence, a minimarket, a bakery, and a betting shop. , Stanks Parade has a newsagent, a fish-and-chip shop and a unisex hairdresser. A parade of shops and a post office on Langbar Gardens was closed in 2004. The Squinting Cat public house, once known as the John Smeaton after the 18th-century civil engineer from nearby Austhorpe. The Whinmoor public house was closed in December 2010, and re-opened three years (2012) later as a pub, but also offers self-defence classes for ages of all which is placed on the left hand side of the building. Swarcliffe Working Men's Club, a members only club, was built in the 1960s, in 2011 it had 1,700 members. St. Gregory's Social Club was next to St.