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Former Lodges to Woodhouse Cemetery

A Grade II Listed Building in Hyde Park and Woodhouse, Leeds

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Latitude: 53.8094 / 53°48'33"N

Longitude: -1.5565 / 1°33'23"W

OS Eastings: 429304

OS Northings: 434878

OS Grid: SE293348

Mapcode National: GBR BGG.77

Mapcode Global: WHC9D.2J30

Plus Code: 9C5WRC5V+PC

Entry Name: Former Lodges to Woodhouse Cemetery

Listing Date: 26 September 1963

Last Amended: 11 September 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1256136

English Heritage Legacy ID: 465211

ID on this website: 101256136

Location: St George's Fields, Woodhouse, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2

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

Tagged with: Gatehouse Greek Revival architecture

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LEEDS

SE2934NW ST GEORGE'S FIELDS
714-1/71/365 (North side)
26/09/63 Former lodges to Woodhouse Cemetery
(Formerly Listed as:
WOODHOUSE LANE
(South West side)
Lodges at Woodhouse Cemetery)

II

Cemetery gateway and lodges, now Leeds University
post-graduate rooms. 1835. By John Clark. For the Leeds
General Cemetery Company. Ashlar and gritstone, grey slate
roofs, wrought-iron gates. In Greek Revival style.
Entrance front: giant Doric columns in antis with pediment and
deep blocking course fronts recessed 3-storey lodges with
blind part-concealed pilasters and pediments. Rear: central
rectangular entrance with pediment on consoles flanked by
lower pedestrian gateways with niches in urns above; flanking
projecting lodges with shouldered architraves and pediments,
sashes with glazing bars, blind panels on returns; low 3-bay
range with two 16-pane sashes and door with overlight to
right.
INTERIOR: the portico has lodge entrances on left and right;
4-panel false double doors, stone staircase in left lodge has
an elaborate balustrade with fleur-de-lis motifs and ramped
handrail; the right lodge staircase has plain square-section
balusters.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: high central paired gates have X-motif to
lock-rail and thick rails with spearhead finials, lower side
gates similar.


Listing NGR: SE2930434878

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