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Latitude: 53.7967 / 53°47'47"N
Longitude: -1.5478 / 1°32'52"W
OS Eastings: 429880
OS Northings: 433466
OS Grid: SE298334
Mapcode National: GBR BJL.2S
Mapcode Global: WHC9D.6T5S
Plus Code: 9C5WQFW2+MV
Entry Name: Statue of Dean Hook
Listing Date: 26 September 1963
Last Amended: 11 September 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375032
English Heritage Legacy ID: 465912
ID on this website: 101375032
Location: Granary Wharf, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1
County: Leeds
Electoral Ward/Division: City and Hunslet
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Leeds
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Leeds St George
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Statue
SE2933SE
714-1/77/104
26/09/63
LEEDS
CITY SQUARE
(North West side)
Statue of Dean Hook
(Formerly Listed as:
LEEDS CITY SQUARE
Statues of Joseph Priestley, Dean
Hook, John Harrison and James Watt)
GV
II
Statue of Dean Hook. 1902. By FW Pomeroy. Polished granite
plinth with bronze plaque with raised lettering: 'Dr HOOK/
VICAR OF LEEDS/ 1837-1859'. Bronze life-size statue on a
square base with raised lettering: 'THE GIFT OF/ T WALTER
HARDING/ 1903' and the sculptor's name.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Revd Dr Walter Farquhar Hook was
instrumental in the development of a new liturgical and
pastoral mission for the Church of England in an urban
community and rebuilt Leeds Parish Church of St Peter, Hough
Lane (qv), consecrated in 1841. T Walter Harding owned the
Tower Works, Globe Road (qv), and paid for the construction of
City Square, designed by William Bakewell.
The statue was one of four standing on a balustrade facing out
of the square, towards the Post Office.
(Payne, B & Payne, D: Old Leeds in Photographs: 2-3; Fraser,
D: A History of Modern Leeds: Manchester: 1980-: 254).
Listing NGR: SE2988033466
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