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SE2835NW
714-1/64/779

LEEDS
Headingley
HEADINGLEY LANE (South West side)
The Golden Beam, with boundary walls

(Formerly listed as Eleanor Lupton Centre (Leeds Girls' High School), with boundary walls, previously listed as: HEADINGLEY LANE, Headingley (South West side) First Church of Christ the Scientist (including stone wall at front))

05/08/76

GV
II

Church, was part of high school, now pub, with boundary walls and gateways on north and west sides. 1912, by William Peel Schofield, with extension 1932, same architect. Portland stone. Egyptian/Classical style, wrought-iron gates. Two storeys, five-bay original block, wide two-window addition set back slightly on right with facade to Richmond Road.

Original block: central three bays project slightly with four giant pilasters with Egyptian-style capitals; large central doorway in moulded architrave with cornice and large stone urn above; moulded stone architraves and metal frames to windows. Wide cornice with blocking course and low pediment. Added block right has a tall full-height panel with disc motif in central blind window, blocking course and pediment on four brackets.

Right return: nine bays, one and nine blank, entrance bays two and eight with architraves and deep cornice with urns, pilasters as front, tall ground-floor windows, those to upper floor square with circular metal frames; cornice and blocking course with pediments above entrances.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

Boundary wall: two and three courses of dressed gritstone, the copings and piers of Portland stone. Piers approximately 1.5m high, curved walling with four piers to main entrance, walling approx 30m long with taller piers to Richmond Road: incised Greek key pattern, banded capstones with disc motif to front; one single pier and three pairs of gate piers with gates on right return (two pedestrian and one wider car park entrance). Gates with square panels and scrolled top rails.

Listing NGR: SE2834635711

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Elinor Lupton Centre at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26547491

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)