GRAVESTONE OF GEORGE CORSON AT NGR 2688 3916

GRAVESTONE OF GEORGE CORSON AT NGR 2688 3916, OTLEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375318
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: GRAVESTONE OF GEORGE CORSON AT NGR 2688 3916
Statutory Address:: GRAVESTONE OF GEORGE CORSON AT NGR 2688 3916, OTLEY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375318
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: GRAVESTONE OF GEORGE CORSON AT NGR 2688 3916
Statutory Address 1:: GRAVESTONE OF GEORGE CORSON AT NGR 2688 3916, OTLEY ROAD

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:: GRAVESTONE OF GEORGE CORSON AT NGR 2688 3916, OTLEY ROAD

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District:: Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 26880 39160

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SE23NE OTLEY ROAD, Lawnswood 714-1/6/938 (West side (off)) Gravestone of George Corson at NGR 2688 3916

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Gravestone. 1910. Granite. In the form of a Celtic ring cross with 5 bosses, on a low pedestal, approx 1.75m high overall. Raised lettering in sunken plaque on the base: 'IN LOVING MEMORY OF/ GEORGE CORSON/ ARCHITECT/ SON OF JAMES CORSON/ OF BEREHOLM, DUMFRIES/ NOV 18th 1910, AGED 80/ GOD IS LOVE'. On the right return of the base: 'HARRIOT MARY/ GOUGH CORSON/ HIS WIFE/ DIED MAY 4th 1928/ AGED 77 YEARS/ AT REST'. The kerbs have been lowered. HISTORICAL NOTE: George Corson practised in Leeds from 1849 until c1901 and was one of the city's most prominent architects, first president of the Leeds Architectural Society (founded 1876) and re-elected as President of the re-named Leeds and Yorkshire Architectural Society in 1897-99. Linstrum (1978) catalogued over 40 buildings by him, in Classical and Gothic Revival style, many of which are listed. They include: East Parade offices; No.28 Great George Street; Spenfield, Otley Road; Grand Theatre; Municipal Buildings and School Board Offices, Calverley Street. He designed the buildings and layout of Lawnswood Cemetery and his was the first grave in the new extension (Wilson, p.36). (Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture: London: 1978-: 375; Wilson, T Butler: Two Leeds Architects: Cuthbert Brodrick and George Corson: 1937-).

Listing NGR: SE2688039160

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Legacy System number:: 466213
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Butler Wilson, T , Two Architects Cuthbert Brodrick and George Corson, (1937)
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978), 375

Legal

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