St Paul's House and attached railings and gates
St Paul's House and attached railings and gates, 20 and 22, St Paul's Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1256126
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-1963
- List Entry Name:
- St Paul's House and attached railings and gates
- Statutory Address:
- St Paul's House and attached railings and gates, 20 and 22, St Paul's Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1256126
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-1963
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- St Paul's House and attached railings and gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- St Paul's House and attached railings and gates, 20 and 22, St Paul's 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:
- St Paul's House and attached railings and gates, 20 and 22, St Paul's 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 29569 33664
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18 August 2021 to reformat text to current standards
SE2933NE
714-1/75/378
LEEDS
ST PAUL'S STREET (North side)
Nos.20 and 22
St Paul's House and attached railings and gates
(Formerly Listed as: ST PAUL'S STREET (North side) Nos.20 AND 22 St Paul's House)
26/09/63
GV
II*
Factory and showrooms, now offices, with gates and railings. 1878, altered and restored with wholly new interior in 1976. By Thomas Ambler. For John Barran. Brick with terracotta by Doulton, wrought-iron gates by Frances Skidmore. Four storeys with added attic storey, twelve x five bays with angled entrance bay at soth east corner blocked 1976 and central entrance inserted on north side, facing Park Square. In an ornate Hispano-Moorish style.
The blocked corner entrance, now a window, has a Moorish arch and paired flanking columns, walls lined with glazed tiles. The elaborate entrance gates of ribbon-like scrolls and flowers were reduced in height and removed to the north entrance 1976. Facades consist of a repeated bay design in which ground and mezzanine windows are united within a large segmental arch of moulded terracotta. First and second floors similarly linked, a giant trabeated frame forming a transom at intermediate floor level and Moorish colonnettes as mullions.
Third floor: triple Moorish arches to lower windows; bands of cusping at eaves, brick and terracotta parapet pierced with cinquefoil openings. Attached octagonal buttresses at the corners rise above the parapet as elaborate corner finials in the style of minarets, restored. Brick and stone piers on south side, cast-iron panels with star motifs between, repeated on other facades.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: John Barran was responsible for the development of Leeds as a centre of wholesale clothing manufacture, the siting of his factory in Park Square reflects the importance of this part of the city in the development of the clothing industry. He was Mayor of Leeds and MP 1876-85. Thomas Ambler also designed many of the buildings in Boar Lane. One of the few executed buildings influenced by the publication of Owen Jones' measured drawings of the Alhambra in the 1840s (Linstrum, p.306).
Listing NGR: SE2956933664
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465247
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978), 306
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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