Tower Works, the Giotto Tower Dust Extraction Chimney
TOWER WORKS, THE GIOTTO TOWER DUST EXTRACTION CHIMNEY, GLOBE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1256247
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Tower Works, the Giotto Tower Dust Extraction Chimney
- Statutory Address:
- TOWER WORKS, THE GIOTTO TOWER DUST EXTRACTION CHIMNEY, GLOBE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1256247
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Tower Works, the Giotto Tower Dust Extraction Chimney
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWER WORKS, THE GIOTTO TOWER DUST EXTRACTION CHIMNEY, GLOBE ROAD
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:
- TOWER WORKS, THE GIOTTO TOWER DUST EXTRACTION CHIMNEY, GLOBE ROAD
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 29548 32998
Details
LEEDS
SE2933SE GLOBE ROAD, Holbeck 714-1/77/840 (North side (off)) 05/08/76 Tower Works, the Giotto Tower dust extraction chimney (Formerly Listed as: GLOBE ROAD The Giotto Tower (or the Big Tower) at Tower Works)
GV II*
Also known as: The Big Tower GLOBE ROAD Holbeck. Dust extraction chimney. 1899, restored 1989. By William Bakewell for Colonel TW Harding. Polychrome and moulded brick, Burmantofts tiles. Square in section with octagonal corner shafts, 4 stages defined by moulded brick strings. Top stage: blind 'belfry' with 3 panels of gilded tiled panels by Burmantofts in arched recess to each side; corbel table and deep panelled cornice surmounted by cast-iron framework and pinnacle. The structure contained filters to trap metal dust produced by the pin-making process, probably for reuse. TW Harding employed William Bakewell to design the extensions to the factory in 1899, when he was Lord Mayor of Leeds. The design is based on the campanile (bell tower) of the cathedral in Florence begun by Giotto in 1334 and illustrated by John Ruskin in his 'Seven Lamps of Architecture', first published in 1849. The structure is also known as The Big Tower. For historical information on the Tower Works see Tower Works: Entrance range (qv).
Listing NGR: SE2954832998
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465096
- 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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