HUNSLET, or HUNFLEET, a chapelry within the
parish and liberty of LEEDS, though locally
in the wapentake of Morley, West riding of the county
of YORK, 2 miles (S. S. E.) from Leeds, containing 8171 .
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual, curacy, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of York, endowed with £ 220
private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the
patronage of the Vicar of Leeds. The chapel, dedicated
to St. Mary the Virgin, was erected in 1636, and
enlarged to twice its first dimensions in 1744; it has
lately received an addition of five hundred and seventy
sittings, of which five hundred and fifty-five are free, the
Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches
and chapels having granted £300 towards defraying the
expense. A little to the eastward of it are the remains
of an old building, encompassed by a moat. There are
places of worship for Wesleyan Methodists and those
in the New Connexion. This place, formerly the seat
of the Gascoignes and Nevilles, has of late years, from
its vicinity to Leeds, and the establishment of manufactories
similar to those in that town, become superior in
extent and importance to many of the market-towns in
the kingdom.