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• In 1892 Appleyard appeared as a witness, on behalf of architect E.W. Lockwood of Huddersfield, in a Court case brought by sculptor Samuel Auty for payment for some carving work. A comment from this case confirms that stones for architectural carving were roughed out by masons at ground level, and that the carving was completed when the stones were in situ on the building: "The stone for the gargoyles [was] roughened into shape," then later "he could not work in such an exposed position as that in which the stone had in the meantime been placed, but that when the weather was better he would finish the work."
• Appleyard was also in his later years a teacher of cabinet-making at the Leeds Institute.

Leeds Fine Art Gallery, Leeds, 1886–1888

This is a listed building. It was designed at a cost of £9.000 by William Henry Thorp of Albion Street, Leeds, and opened by Archibald Witham Scarr (1827–1904), Mayor of Leeds, and Hubert von Herkomer on Wednesday 3 October 1888. Its ground floor gallery was called the Queen's Room (re-named as of 2019 the Ziff Gallery):

"A beautiful rectangular apartment with arches crossing its corners, which give the roof an octagonal character, with coved ceiling and lantern, and with clerestory lights through arcades, with classic moulded pilasters; it has a fine frieze designed by Mr Thorp, and carried out by Mr J.W. Appleyard, with panels bearing the names of Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough, and Turner. past Grand Masters of the English School of Painting."

The frieze and ceiling was painted ivory white, and the walls were maroon "of dead texture" to show off the artworks and frames. Although the room is still there, the frieze is lost.

Media related to History of Leeds City Art Gallery at Wikimedia Commons

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  Queen's Room
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  Frieze, 1888, in Queen's Room (now missing)

Newton Park Union Church, Chapeltown, 1887–1889

Newton Park Union Church

This is a Grade II listed building. It was designed at a cost of £6,200 "in the fourteenth century or decorated Gothic style" for the newly-joined Congregationalists and Baptists by Archibald Neil of East Parade, Leeds, and opened on Wednesday 3 April 1889. It had a 70-foot tower with a clock by Pearce & Sons; on each angle was a turret with an octagonal crocketed pinnacle. It had an octagonal nave with arcading and clerestory. "The pulpit and communion rails, of oak, are beautifully carved." J. W. Appleyard was credited as one of the contractors, but it is not known whether he carved wood or stone here.

At some point the clock was replaced by one by Potts of Leeds, which had originally been installed in Wellington Station, Leeds, in 1916. The building was deconsecrated in 1952 and became the Royal Air Force Assocation Club, The Old Central Hebrew Congregational Synagogue, then finally a Sikh temple. The building was damaged by fire in 2005 and is now derelict.

Media related to Newton Park Union Church Chapeltown at Wikimedia Commons