Description

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SE 2934 SE
714-1/74/404

LEEDS,
VERNON STREET (South side),
Leeds College of Art and Design and attached railings

(Formerly Listed as: VERNON STREET, Jacob Kramer College of Art)

23.03.93

GV

II

College of art, with railings. 1902. By Bedford and Kitson.
Steel frame, red brick, stone bands, hipped slate roofs,
cast-iron railings.
3 storeys over basement, 4-bay front, the right bay recessed
and the main entrance on the right return: steps with
stone-coped wall to half-glazed double doors in Gibbs-style
surround, open segmental pediment with small window above,
large glass mosaic plaque by Gerald Moira depicts seated Classical figures and
the words LEEDS/ COLLEGE OF/ ART with 3 laurel wreaths.
Modillion cornice, entablature and 2nd cornice carried round
to Vernon Street frontage which has a narrow central bay
flanked by wider hipped-roof bays defined by pilaster strips;
large steel-framed windows, central round window at
upper-floor level, stepped modillion cornice.
Left return: 4 bays, pilasters between, main glazing centre
and left.
INTERIOR: many original features including in entrance hall
4(?) large plain columns supporting first floor.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings extend across Vernon Street
frontage and left return; low stone-coped wall, scrolled
panels with segmental tops and pointed bars.
Part of the important group of schools built late C19-early
C20 as part of the Leeds Institute, Cookridge Street (qv). The
foundation stone was laid by Sir James Kitson, MP, in 1902 and
it was opened in 1903 by Ernest William Beckett, MP. The
former name commemorates the artist Jacob Kramer (1892-1962).

Listing NGR: SE2997234048

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547351

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)