After 118 years of telling the time to the people of Roundhay, St Andrew’s Clocktower and bell have fallen silent, and the clock has ground to a halt. The mechanism behind the clock needs substantial repairs totalling £15,800 - and unfortunately St Andrew’s members cannot afford to fund this themselves. Can you help us to get the clock ticking again?

A little bit of history: St Andrews Roundhay United Reformed Church was originally built as a modest building with a small tower, and originally named Roundhay Congregational Church.

By 1905 the new church was flourishing, with the number of members and children increasing steadily in Roundhay, so the church instructed the architect Mr Beevers to produce plans for a much larger building with a taller tower.The foundation stone was laid in October 1907, our tower was the tallest of the three local church towers; the Ordnance Survey recently chose it for the local trig point. The clock itself was donated by a close neighbour and the commission was awarded to Pearce & Sons who were gold and silversmiths and watchmakers with a shop in Albion Street, Leeds.

A suitable size of bell was chosen for the church clock, which sounds the note A. A plate on the clock records simply 'The gift of FW Spruce 1908.’ The clock and clocktower have now looked over Roundhay for 118 years.

We don’t want to lose much time in getting it fixed, so please do come along to our appeal launch at the church in Shaftesbury Avenue, Roundhay for some coffee, tea and cake between 10am - 1pm on 11th February 2026, or if you cannot make the launch then we run the Clocktower café at the church every Wednesday morning between 10am and 1pm.