Former Lodges to Woodhouse Cemetery

FORMER LODGES TO WOODHOUSE CEMETERY, ST GEORGES FIELDS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1256136
Date first listed:
26-Sept-1963
List Entry Name:
Former Lodges to Woodhouse Cemetery
Statutory Address:
FORMER LODGES TO WOODHOUSE CEMETERY, ST GEORGES FIELDS
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Lodges to Woodhouse Cemetery, St George's Fields, University of Leeds campus, Leeds, photo taken July 7th 2023
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Date:
2007-08-07
Reference:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1256136
Date first listed:
26-Sept-1963
Date of most recent amendment:
11-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
Former Lodges to Woodhouse Cemetery
Statutory Address 1:
FORMER LODGES TO WOODHOUSE CEMETERY, ST GEORGES FIELDS

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
FORMER LODGES TO WOODHOUSE CEMETERY, ST GEORGES FIELDS

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 29304 34878

Details

LEEDS

SE2934NW ST GEORGE'S FIELDS 714-1/71/365 (North side) 26/09/63 Former lodges to Woodhouse Cemetery (Formerly Listed as: WOODHOUSE LANE (South West side) Lodges at Woodhouse Cemetery)

II

Cemetery gateway and lodges, now Leeds University post-graduate rooms. 1835. By John Clark. For the Leeds General Cemetery Company. Ashlar and gritstone, grey slate roofs, wrought-iron gates. In Greek Revival style. Entrance front: giant Doric columns in antis with pediment and deep blocking course fronts recessed 3-storey lodges with blind part-concealed pilasters and pediments. Rear: central rectangular entrance with pediment on consoles flanked by lower pedestrian gateways with niches in urns above; flanking projecting lodges with shouldered architraves and pediments, sashes with glazing bars, blind panels on returns; low 3-bay range with two 16-pane sashes and door with overlight to right. INTERIOR: the portico has lodge entrances on left and right; 4-panel false double doors, stone staircase in left lodge has an elaborate balustrade with fleur-de-lis motifs and ramped handrail; the right lodge staircase has plain square-section balusters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: high central paired gates have X-motif to lock-rail and thick rails with spearhead finials, lower side gates similar.



Listing NGR: SE2930434878

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
465211
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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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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