St James Hospital Southside Building
ST JAMES HOSPITAL SOUTHSIDE BUILDING, BECKETT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256275
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1974
- List Entry Name:
- St James Hospital Southside Building
- Statutory Address:
- ST JAMES HOSPITAL SOUTHSIDE BUILDING, BECKETT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256275
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1974
- List Entry Name:
- St James Hospital Southside Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST JAMES HOSPITAL SOUTHSIDE BUILDING, BECKETT STREET
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:
- ST JAMES HOSPITAL SOUTHSIDE BUILDING, BECKETT 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 31676 34597
Details
LEEDS
SE33SW BECKETT STREET, Sheepscar 714-1/11/1104 (West side) 22/11/74 St James' Hospital: Southside Building
GV II
Moral and industrial training school, now part of hospital. Dated 1848, 1904-06 alterations. By Perkin and Backhouse of Leeds. Red brick, stone dressings, slate roof. 3 storeys, 5 unequal bays with 21 windows, central and end bays project with Dutch gables, octagonal stone turrets with ogee domes and 3-storey canted bays. Centre: tall mullion and transom stair window and round arch doorway with pilasters and finials over entablature, gable inscription with date. Parapet with pierced stone panels, moulded string course, stone window architraves. 2 large ridge stacks with bracketed cornices. INTERIOR: not inspected. Built as Industrial and Moral Training School, foundation stone laid 14/10/1846, opened October 1848. For 499 children, the school cost »14,000. The building is now part of St James' Hospital. (RCHME: Report: St James's University Hospital: 1995-).
Listing NGR: SE3167634597
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465078
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
St James's University Hospital Report, (1995)
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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