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Latitude: 53.7925 / 53°47'32"N
Longitude: -1.5529 / 1°33'10"W
OS Eastings: 429548
OS Northings: 432998
OS Grid: SE295329
Mapcode National: GBR BHN.09
Mapcode Global: WHC9D.3YS0
Plus Code: 9C5WQCRW+XR
Entry Name: Tower Works, the Giotto Tower Dust Extraction Chimney
Listing Date: 5 August 1976
Last Amended: 11 September 1996
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1256247
English Heritage Legacy ID: 465096
ID on this website: 101256247
Location: Camp Field, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS11
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: Hunslet St Mary the Virgin
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Chimney
LEEDS
SE2933SE GLOBE ROAD, Holbeck
714-1/77/840 (North side (off))
05/08/76 Tower Works, the Giotto Tower dust
extraction chimney
(Formerly Listed as:
GLOBE ROAD
The Giotto Tower (or the Big Tower)
at Tower Works)
GV II*
Also known as: The Big Tower GLOBE ROAD Holbeck.
Dust extraction chimney. 1899, restored 1989. By William
Bakewell for Colonel TW Harding. Polychrome and moulded brick,
Burmantofts tiles. Square in section with octagonal corner
shafts, 4 stages defined by moulded brick strings.
Top stage: blind 'belfry' with 3 panels of gilded tiled panels
by Burmantofts in arched recess to each side; corbel table and
deep panelled cornice surmounted by cast-iron framework and
pinnacle. The structure contained filters to trap metal dust
produced by the pin-making process, probably for reuse. TW
Harding employed William Bakewell to design the extensions to
the factory in 1899, when he was Lord Mayor of Leeds. The
design is based on the campanile (bell tower) of the cathedral
in Florence begun by Giotto in 1334 and illustrated by John
Ruskin in his 'Seven Lamps of Architecture', first published
in 1849. The structure is also known as The Big Tower.
For historical information on the Tower Works see Tower Works:
Entrance range (qv).
Listing NGR: SE2954832998
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