Maurice Keyworth Building, University Of Leeds
Maurice Keyworth Building, University Of Leeds, Moorland Road, Hyde Park, Leeds, LS6 1AN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375205
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Maurice Keyworth Building, University Of Leeds
- Statutory Address:
- Maurice Keyworth Building, University Of Leeds, Moorland Road, Hyde Park, Leeds, LS6 1AN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375205
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Maurice Keyworth Building, University Of Leeds
- Statutory Address 1:
- Maurice Keyworth Building, University Of Leeds, Moorland Road, Hyde Park, Leeds, LS6 1AN
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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.
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:
- Maurice Keyworth Building, University Of Leeds, Moorland Road, Hyde Park, Leeds, LS6 1AN
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 29036 34718
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 July 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SE2934NW
05/08/76
LEEDS
Woodhouse
MOORLAND ROAD (East side)
University Of Leeds
Maurice Keyworth Building
(Formerly listed as Leeds Grammar School, previously listed as MOORLAND ROAD Grammar School)
05/08/76
II
Grammar school and headmaster's house. 1858-59 and 1904-5, altered C20. By EM Barry. Coursed gritstone, steep-pitched fish-scale slate roof. Cruciform plan with later addition of 1904-5 by Austin and Paley to west. Gothic Revival style. Two tall storeys.
Original school: decorated traceried windows with six small gables; depressed-arch ground-floor windows. Gabled cross-wing right has four-light traceried window, balustraded balcony to first floor. Main entrance to left of this bay has double doors with quatrefoil panels, moulded shouldered arch, attached columns. glazed traceried overlight, hoodmould with inscription: 'NISI DOMINUS AEDIFICAVERIT DOMUM IN VANUM LABORAVERUNT QUI AEDIFICANT EAM'. Carved frieze at floor level. Rear: upper storeys added; later range (left) has inscription: 'A.M.D.S. 'NISI DOMINUS FRUSTRA' 'AD iii KAL MAI MCMIV'. Left return: paired two-light windows to ground floor, four-light traceried window above, octagonal corner buttresses with pinnacles, two-bay extension to left, the left bay recessed, the right bay with arched entrance, roses in spandrels, shield above, cross windows. Front right: attached headmaster's house, now offices: two bays, the right bay breaks forward slightly and is gabled, with hallow projecting stack between cusped windows with hoodmoulds, three- and two-light windows to left bay; right return: two-storey canted bay window with traceried and cusped lights, gable window with hoodmould above. Later range set back on right: four bays, buttresses between six-light transomed windows, gables with quatrefoil piercings, gable coping with gabled kneeler right.
INTERIOR: the main range contains the upper floor assembly hall, now library. Over the entrance, inside, a plaster plaque of Christ in the Temple (brought from the school premises in North Street); carved capitals to attached columns between dormer windows, eleven collar-beam trusses with cusped decoration. EM Barry was the third son of Sir Charles, the architect of the Houses of Parliament, and brother of the headmaster of the Grammar School.
Listing NGR: SE2897434728
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466087
- 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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