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Latitude: 53.8067 / 53°48'23"N
Longitude: -1.4698 / 1°28'11"W
OS Eastings: 435011
OS Northings: 434614
OS Grid: SE350346
Mapcode National: GBR LS5F.L5
Mapcode Global: WHDBK.DL93
Plus Code: 9C5WRG4J+M3
Entry Name: Tower at Seacroft Hospital
Listing Date: 5 August 1976
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1255580
English Heritage Legacy ID: 465847
ID on this website: 101255580
Location: The Oval, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS14
County: Leeds
Electoral Ward/Division: Killingbeck and Seacroft
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Leeds
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Manston St James
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Hospital building
LEEDS
SE33SE YORK ROAD, Seacroft
714-1/12/1082 (South side)
05/08/76 Tower at Seacroft Hospital
II
Water tower. 1902-4. By ET Hall. Arts and Crafts influence.
Tall red brick tower, square on plan and tapered. Wide
cornice, parapet ramped up at corners. Moulded cornice below,
segmentally-arched over clock face on each side with
terracotta surrounds. Below is continuous iron-railed balcony
on all sides with low but wide segmentally-arched window
beneath. The bottom half of the tower has plain walls with
only a few small windows.
INTERIOR: cast-iron spiral stair in left corner, water tanks
removed. The water tanks help up to 40,000 gallons for this
(seacroft) and Killinbeck hospitals.
HISTORY: Seacroft hospital was originally built in the grounds
of the former Manston Hall, as a temporary smallpox hospital
in 1893; it was extended for scarlet fever in 1898 by Thomas
Hewson, City Engineer. 1902-04 permanent hospital for scarlet
fever; diptheria and eutric fever built.
(RCHME: Report: Seacroft Hospital: 1995-).
Listing NGR: SE3501134614
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