Leeds College of Art and Design and Attached Railings
LEEDS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, VERNON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255792
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Leeds College of Art and Design and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- LEEDS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, VERNON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255792
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1993
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Leeds College of Art and Design and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEEDS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, VERNON STREET
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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:
- LEEDS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, VERNON STREET
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 29972 34048
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12/10/2016
SE 2934 SE
714-1/74/404
LEEDS,
VERNON STREET (South side),
Leeds College of Art and Design and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as: VERNON STREET, Jacob Kramer College of Art)
23.03.93
GV
II
College of art, with railings. 1902. By Bedford and Kitson.
Steel frame, red brick, stone bands, hipped slate roofs,
cast-iron railings.
3 storeys over basement, 4-bay front, the right bay recessed
and the main entrance on the right return: steps with
stone-coped wall to half-glazed double doors in Gibbs-style
surround, open segmental pediment with small window above,
large glass mosaic plaque by Gerald Moira depicts seated Classical figures and
the words LEEDS/ COLLEGE OF/ ART with 3 laurel wreaths.
Modillion cornice, entablature and 2nd cornice carried round
to Vernon Street frontage which has a narrow central bay
flanked by wider hipped-roof bays defined by pilaster strips;
large steel-framed windows, central round window at
upper-floor level, stepped modillion cornice.
Left return: 4 bays, pilasters between, main glazing centre
and left.
INTERIOR: many original features including in entrance hall
4(?) large plain columns supporting first floor.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings extend across Vernon Street
frontage and left return; low stone-coped wall, scrolled
panels with segmental tops and pointed bars.
Part of the important group of schools built late C19-early
C20 as part of the Leeds Institute, Cookridge Street (qv). The
foundation stone was laid by Sir James Kitson, MP, in 1902 and
it was opened in 1903 by Ernest William Beckett, MP. The
former name commemorates the artist Jacob Kramer (1892-1962).
Listing NGR: SE2997234048
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465643
- 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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