would this be classed as a cipher text attack? Say i'm given a cipher text to decrypt, however i also have access to a server that performed the encryption; where i could enter
any plaintext and observe the result of encryption.
 would it be classed as a known plain text attack or cipher text? I'm abit confused
Neither, as you've described the prerequisites or - in a theoretical model - the setting for an attack to take place, but not the attack itself.

What you seem to have is a ciphertext oracle which can be used within a Chosen Plaintext Attack (CPA). As you can "enter any plaintext" I presume you can investigate the results and the request encryption of another plaintext from the oracle. If you can use this to attack the cipher then it is known as an Adaptive Plaintext Attack.

If the cipher resists such attacks and the ciphertext doesn't give you any information about the key (or any other unkonwn plaintext) then the cipher is IND-CPA2 secure.