Irish Catholic community. Until 1985 the next building down was an impressive purpose-built synagogue, the largest in Leeds, which is now the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. The Roscoe Methodist Church on Francis Street (off Chapeltown Road) dates from 1974, but replaces a chapel founded in 1862. Elsewhere, a former United Reformed Church (1906) has become the Chapeltown Community Church by Potternewton Park. The Church of the Three Hierarchs in Harehills Avenue is a former Methodist chapel reopened as a Greek Orthodox church in 1966. As late as 1993, maps showed four synagogues in the area including the main one, but these have all closed. The first mosque in Leeds was created in a house in Leopold Street in 1961. With the influx of Muslims from India and Pakistan in the 1960s and 1970s, larger buildings were acquired in 1974 and 1982 to become the main mosque in Leeds, and finally in 2001 the Central Jamia Mosque was completed on Spencer Place. Notable residents of Chapeltown/Potternewton Frank Kidson (1855–1926), English folksong collector and music scholar, lived in Hamilton Avenue 1905–1926 Edward Caldwell Spruce (1865–1923), sculptor, had a studio in Cowper Street Ellery Hanley MBE (born 1961), former Bradford Northern, Wigan, Balmain, Western Suburbs and Leeds Rugby League player and captain and later head coach of the Great Britain Rugby League team Brian Deane (born 1968), former footballer Olive Middleton née Lupton, great-grandmother of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge who grew up at Newton Park Estate, Leeds Aaron Lennon (born 1987), footballer Micah Richards (born 1988), footballer Andre Wisdom (born 1993), footballer Arthur Currer Briggs, Lord Mayor of Leeds, 1903 Eileen Taylor, Lord Mayor of Leeds from 2019 to 2021 Cedric Clarke - Leeds' first black councillor Location grid See also Chapeltown riots Listed buildings in Leeds (Chapel Allerton Ward) Notes and references External links Arthur France MBE Moving Here Stories Max Farrar The Zone of the Other: Imposing and Resisting Alien Identities in Chapeltown, Leeds, During the Twentieth Century Chapeltown Carnival Queen 2005 Flickr Chapeltown Carnival Leeds 2004 Flickr Historical and genealogical resource for area including Chapeltown Leeds Blue Plaques Places in Leeds