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Latitude: 53.8017 / 53°48'6"N
Longitude: -1.5565 / 1°33'23"W
OS Eastings: 429306
OS Northings: 434023
OS Grid: SE293340
Mapcode National: GBR BGJ.7Z
Mapcode Global: WHC9D.2P2X
Plus Code: 9C5WRC2V+M9
Entry Name: Statue of Sir Peter Fairbairn
Listing Date: 5 August 1976
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1255605
English Heritage Legacy ID: 465827
ID on this website: 101255605
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS3
County: Leeds
Electoral Ward/Division: Hyde Park and Woodhouse
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
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LEEDS
SE2934SW WOODHOUSE SQUARE
714-1/73/452 (South side)
05/08/76 Statue of Sir Peter Fairbairn
II
Statue. 1868. By M Noble, sculptor. Tall granite pedestal with
cornice and plinth, square plan. Inscription: SIR PETER
FAIRBAIRN, KNT/ MAYOR OF LEEDS/ IN/ 1857 AND 1858/ THIS STATUE
WAS ERECTED BY/ THE VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS/ OF HIS FELLOW
TOWNSMEN. On the statue base, left side: M.NOBLE SCULP/ LONDON
1868. Bronze life-size standing figure, scroll in right hand,
left hand resting on a plinth with cog wheel and drapery with
chain of office.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Peter Fairbairn came to Leeds from Kelso and
started his engineering business in 1826 at the Wellington
Foundry. He worked closely with John Marshall at his flax
mills and with Matthew Murray and James Kitson was one of
Leeds' engineering magnates. He was a churchwarden in the
1830s, councillor 1836-42 and in the 1850s his distinctions
culminated in a knighthood from Queen Victoria at the opening
of the new Town Hall in 1858. He lived at Fairbairn House,
Clarendon Road (qv).
Listing NGR: SE2930634023
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