STATUE OF JOHN HARRISON

STATUE OF JOHN HARRISON, CITY SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375039
Date first listed:: 26-Sep-1963
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF JOHN HARRISON
Statutory Address:: STATUE OF JOHN HARRISON, CITY SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375039
Date first listed:: 26-Sep-1963
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF JOHN HARRISON
Statutory Address 1:: STATUE OF JOHN HARRISON, CITY SQUARE

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

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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 JOHN HARRISON, 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:: SE2986733452

Details

SE2933SE 714-1/77/106 26/09/63

LEEDS

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

GV II

Statue of John Harrison. 1903. By HC Fehr. Polished granite plinth with bronze plaque and raised lettering: 'JOHN/ HARRISON/ 1576-1656'. Life-size bronze statue on a square plinth with raised lettering to front: 'THE GIFT OF/ COUNCILLOR RICHARD BOSTON 1903'. One of 4 statues of prominent men which stood on the balustrade of the City Square designed by William Bakewell for T Walter Harding and completed 1903. HISTORICAL NOTE: John Harrison was the son of a Leeds cloth merchant who inherited a considerable fortune and devoted much of it to supporting the poor of the town. Among his charitable acts was the rebuilding of the Grammar School, the construction of Church of St John, Mark Lane (qv), and Harrison's Almshouses, Raglan Road (qv). (Burt, S & Grady, K: War, Plague and Trade, Leeds in the C17: 17).

Listing NGR: SE2986733452

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Legacy System number:: 465919
Legacy System:: LBS

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Burt, , Grady, , War Plague and Trade Leeds in the Seventeenth Century, (1987), 17

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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.