Statue of Sir Peter Fairbairn
STATUE OF SIR PETER FAIRBAIRN, WOODHOUSE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255605
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Statue of Sir Peter Fairbairn
- Statutory Address:
- STATUE OF SIR PETER FAIRBAIRN, WOODHOUSE SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255605
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Statue of Sir Peter Fairbairn
- Statutory Address 1:
- STATUE OF SIR PETER FAIRBAIRN, WOODHOUSE SQUARE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- STATUE OF SIR PETER FAIRBAIRN, WOODHOUSE SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 29306 34023
Details
LEEDS
SE2934SW WOODHOUSE SQUARE 714-1/73/452 (South side) 05/08/76 Statue of Sir Peter Fairbairn
II
Statue. 1868. By M Noble, sculptor. Tall granite pedestal with cornice and plinth, square plan. Inscription: SIR PETER FAIRBAIRN, KNT/ MAYOR OF LEEDS/ IN/ 1857 AND 1858/ THIS STATUE WAS ERECTED BY/ THE VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS/ OF HIS FELLOW TOWNSMEN. On the statue base, left side: M.NOBLE SCULP/ LONDON 1868. Bronze life-size standing figure, scroll in right hand, left hand resting on a plinth with cog wheel and drapery with chain of office. HISTORICAL NOTE: Peter Fairbairn came to Leeds from Kelso and started his engineering business in 1826 at the Wellington Foundry. He worked closely with John Marshall at his flax mills and with Matthew Murray and James Kitson was one of Leeds' engineering magnates. He was a churchwarden in the 1830s, councillor 1836-42 and in the 1850s his distinctions culminated in a knighthood from Queen Victoria at the opening of the new Town Hall in 1858. He lived at Fairbairn House, Clarendon Road (qv).
Listing NGR: SE2930634023
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465827
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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