STATUE OF DEAN HOOK

STATUE OF DEAN HOOK, CITY SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375032
Date first listed:: 26-Sep-1963
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF DEAN HOOK
Statutory Address:: STATUE OF DEAN HOOK, CITY SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375032
Date first listed:: 26-Sep-1963
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF DEAN HOOK
Statutory Address 1:: STATUE OF DEAN HOOK, CITY SQUARE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: STATUE OF DEAN HOOK, CITY SQUARE

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:: SE2988033466

Details

SE2933SE 714-1/77/104 26/09/63

LEEDS CITY SQUARE (North West side) Statue of Dean Hook (Formerly Listed as: LEEDS CITY SQUARE Statues of Joseph Priestley, Dean Hook, John Harrison and James Watt)

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Statue of Dean Hook. 1902. By FW Pomeroy. Polished granite plinth with bronze plaque with raised lettering: 'Dr HOOK/ VICAR OF LEEDS/ 1837-1859'. Bronze life-size statue on a square base with raised lettering: 'THE GIFT OF/ T WALTER HARDING/ 1903' and the sculptor's name. HISTORICAL NOTE: the Revd Dr Walter Farquhar Hook was instrumental in the development of a new liturgical and pastoral mission for the Church of England in an urban community and rebuilt Leeds Parish Church of St Peter, Hough Lane (qv), consecrated in 1841. T Walter Harding owned the Tower Works, Globe Road (qv), and paid for the construction of City Square, designed by William Bakewell. The statue was one of four standing on a balustrade facing out of the square, towards the Post Office. (Payne, B & Payne, D: Old Leeds in Photographs: 2-3; Fraser, D: A History of Modern Leeds: Manchester: 1980-: 254).

Listing NGR: SE2988033466

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Legacy System number:: 465912
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Fraser, D, A History of Modern Leeds, (1980), 254
Payne, B, Payne, D, Old Leeds in Photographs2-3

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.