Methodists appoint architects to convert listed church into ‘ethical’ hotel

摘要

The Methodist Church has appointed Pearce Bottomley Architects and HLM to convert a landmark listed churchin Leeds into a hotel.The £15m project will reinvent the grade II-listed church, next to Leeds Town Hall, into The Wesley, a 70-bed,four-star hotel with a restaurant and meeting venue named after Methodism’s founder.The scheme, on Oxford Place, is part of the church’s ambition to become an “ethical” hotelier, using localsuppliers wherever possible and providing rooms for those with access difficulties.