St Aidan's Church, Leeds

St Aidan's Church in Harehills, Leeds, West Yorkshire is a Church of England parish church built in 1894. It is a large Victorian basilica-type red-brick building which is Grade II* listed. A church hall is adjacent. The architects were Johnson and Crawford Hick of Newcastle.

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Chapeltown Barracks

Chapeltown Barracks was a military installation in Chapeltown, Leeds, England, situated on the north and south sides of Barrack Road.

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Leeds Gamma Knife Centre

Leeds Gamma Knife Centre is based in the Institute of Oncology at St James's University Hospital in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. St. James's Institute of Oncology (Bexley Wing), a National Health Service (NHS) hospital, is the largest cancer research hospital in Europe. When the Leeds centre opened in March 2009, there were only four other centres in the UK which specialised in the treatment of brain disease by a Gamma Knife. It is home to the world's most advanced Gamma Knife – the £3m Leksell Perfexion, manufactured by Elekta. In January 2010 the centre hosted an international conference “Extending the Horizon: Advances in Gamma Knife Therapy” in which new treatment possibilities for the Gamma Knife came under the spotlight in the UK. In 2011 Leeds Gamma Knife Centre began a relationship with Belfast Health and Social Care Trust to treat NHS and private patients from across all Ireland – ensuring continuity of care across the Irish Sea.

St James's University Hospital

St James's University Hospital is a tertiary hospital in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England and is popularly known as Jimmy's. It is the 8th largest hospital by beds in the United Kingdom, popularised for its television coverage from 1987 to 1996. It is managed by the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The hospital is home to the Leeds Cancer Centre which provides specialist Oncology services to Leeds and the wider West Yorkshire region. Other specialist services based at St James's include Hepatology, Pathology and the Cystic Fibrosis Unit.

Thackray Museum of Medicine

The Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, is a museum of the history of medicine adjacent to St James's University Hospital. It opened in March 1997 as the Thackray Medical Museum. In 1998 it won "Museum of the Year" and has other awards including in 2004 both the "Excellence in England Small Tourist Attraction of the Year" and "Sandford Award for Heritage Education". The museum closed temporarily in 2019 for a £4 million refurbishment, while the museum conference centre and car park remained open, and remained closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The museum reopened its doors on 17 May 2021. The redeveloped museum has since been shortlisted for Art Fund's Museum of the Year award 2021 and received a special commendation from the European Museum Forum in 2023.