MEMORIAL TO QUEEN VICTORIA

MEMORIAL TO QUEEN VICTORIA, WOODHOUSE LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1255642
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1976
List Entry Name:: MEMORIAL TO QUEEN VICTORIA
Statutory Address:: MEMORIAL TO QUEEN VICTORIA, WOODHOUSE LANE

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Date:: 2001-09-04
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1255642
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1976
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: MEMORIAL TO QUEEN VICTORIA
Statutory Address 1:: MEMORIAL TO QUEEN VICTORIA, WOODHOUSE LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MEMORIAL TO QUEEN VICTORIA, WOODHOUSE LANE

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:: SE2920935069

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LEEDS

SE2935 WOODHOUSE LANE, Woodhouse Moor 714-1/24/1281 (South West side) 05/08/76 Memorial to Queen Victoria (Formerly Listed as: HYDE PARK, Woodhouse Moor Memorial to Queen Victoria on east side of Woodhouse Moor)

GV II*

Memorial. 1903. By George Frampton RA. Portland stone base and pedestal with bronze figures and frieze. Base of 4 stone steps. The plinth has mouldings on front and rear, a continuous frieze has the words 'INDIA', 'AUSTRALIA', 'CANADA' and 'AFRICA' on scrolled plaques flanked by owls and symbolic foliage. The tall plinth has the royal arms carved in deep relief to front and the words 'RAISED/ BY/ VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTION/ OF /CITIZENS/ OF/ LEEDS/ IN THE YEAR/ 1901' on the rear. The sides of the plinth have niches with seated statue of 'PEACE' (left) and 'INDUSTRY' (right). The statue of Queen Victoria is enthroned, in coronation robes; the back of the throne has a radiant sun. On the plinth below the statue the words 'GEO FRAMPTON RA 1903'. The statue originally stood in Victoria Square, outside the Town Hall. It was unveiled on 27 November 1905 and was moved in 1937. (Payne B & Payne D: Old Leeds in Photographs: 26).

Listing NGR: SE2920935069

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Legacy System number:: 465817
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Payne, B, Payne, D, Old Leeds in Photographs26

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.