STATUE OF JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

STATUE OF JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, CITY SQUARE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375043
Date first listed:: 26-Sep-1963
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF JOSEPH PRIESTLEY
Statutory Address:: STATUE OF JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, CITY SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375043
Date first listed:: 26-Sep-1963
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF JOSEPH PRIESTLEY
Statutory Address 1:: STATUE OF JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: STATUE OF JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, 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:: SE2988333469

Details

SE2933SE 714-1/77/107 26/09/63

LEEDS

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

GV II

Statue of Joseph Priestley. 1903. By Drury. Polished granite plinth, bronze plaque with raised lettering: 'JOSEPH/ PRIESTLEY/ 1733-1804'. Statue base has raised lettering: 'THE GIFT OF/ T. WALTER HARDING 1903'. Life-size statue of one of the 4 prominent Leeds citizens commemorated in the City Square layout designed by William Bakewell for T Walter Harding, 1902. The statues originally faced out of the square and stood on a balustraded parapet which also carried elaborate lamp standards.

Listing NGR: SE2988333469

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Legacy System number:: 465923
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.