Description

SE2833SE
714-1/77/101
05/08/76

LEEDS

CITY SQUARE
Four lamp posts: 'Morn'

(Formerly Listed as:
CITY SQUARE
Eight lamp standards)

GV
II

Four statues supporting lamps. 1903. By Alfred Drury. Polished
granite plinths, bronze life-size statues on square bases with
lettering: 'MORN/ THE GIFT OF T. WALTER HARDING 1903'; 'ALF.
DRURY ARA Sc' and 'J.W.SINGER & SONS FOUNDERS'. Nude female
figures holding flowers and drapery, the right arm raised and
holding a torch (not original).
Part of the lighting scheme for the City Square designed by
William Bakewell for T Walter Harding, 1903. The figures,
representing 'Morn', originally stood on the balustrade and
flanked the entrances to the square, holding tall lamps with
glass ball shades. Matches the group, 'Even' (qv).

Listing NGR: SE2986733432

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26655835

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• 
  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]