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Latitude: 53.7993 / 53°47'57"N
Longitude: -1.5466 / 1°32'47"W
OS Eastings: 429958
OS Northings: 433756
OS Grid: SE299337
Mapcode National: GBR BJK.BV
Mapcode Global: WHC9D.6RRS
Plus Code: 9C5WQFX3+P8
Entry Name: St Andrews Chambers with Basement Railings
Listing Date: 5 August 1974
Last Amended: 11 September 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375420
English Heritage Legacy ID: 466316
ID on this website: 101375420
Location: 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 City
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Building
LEEDS
SE2933NE PARK ROW
714-1/75/296 (East side)
05/08/74 Nos.21 AND 22
St Andrew's Chambers with basement
railings
(Formerly Listed as:
PARK ROW
(East side)
Nos.21 AND 22
St Andrew's Chambers)
GV II
Assurance society offices, now bank, and basement railings.
1869. By George Corson. Sandstone ashlar, granite columns,
roof not visible, cast-iron railings. 3 storeys and basement,
5 bays. Italianate style.
Ground floor: rusticated, projecting porch on left with paired
pink Peterhead granite Corinthian columns with Rubislaw
granite collars supporting entablature with balustered balcony
to 1st-floor window, the dentilled cornice is continued over
the ground floor. Elaborately carved door surround with
circular fanlight in deep recess and name. Fenestration:
frames replaced; tall ground floor and diminishing to 1st and
2nd floors, architraves, heavy segmental pediments with carved
tympanum on consoles and carved aprons to 1st floor. Guilloche
frieze with projecting lions' heads, heavy modillion eaves
cornice and balustraded parapet with urns.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings: elaborate robust design, ball
finials.
Originally the premises of the Scottish Widows Fund and Life
Assurance Society; among the occupants of the offices in 1881
were Herman Edward Passavant, merchant and Consular Agent for
France, and William H Thorp, architect.
(Kelly's Directory of Leeds: 1881-).
Listing NGR: SE2995833756
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