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Latitude: 53.7958 / 53°47'44"N
Longitude: -1.5756 / 1°34'32"W
OS Eastings: 428055
OS Northings: 433360
OS Grid: SE280333
Mapcode National: GBR BBM.53
Mapcode Global: WHC9C.RVXF
Plus Code: 9C5WQCWF+8Q
Entry Name: Armley Prison: Entrance Range and Flanking Walls
Listing Date: 5 August 1976
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1256248
English Heritage Legacy ID: 465097
ID on this website: 101256248
Location: New Wortley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS12
County: Leeds
Electoral Ward/Division: Armley
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Leeds
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Armley with New Wortley
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
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LEEDS
SE2833 GLOUCESTER TERRACE, Armley
714-1/34/486 (West side)
05/08/76 Armley Prison: entrance range and
flanking walls
GV II*
Entrance range and flanking walls to prison. 1847, altered
C20. By William Belton Perkin and Elisha Backhouse. Ashlar,
edge-tooled on quoins, brick internal skin, rubble infill,
slate roofs.
Castle style, 2- and 3-storey entrance block with large
moulded round-arch doorway, flanking projecting splayed and
battered 2-storey towers with corbelled embattled parapets; to
each side low embattled link wall to 3-storeyed square towers
and flanking taller octagonal towers all crenellated and with
iron bars to round-arched windows, this part fronted by
cast-iron railings in the form of spears and halberds;
flanking perimeter wall approx 6m high and 200m long overall,
parapet rises over arrow-loops above plain ramped buttresses,
and circular corner turrets with blocked round-headed
openings; walling to S of entrance block rebuilt and clad in
tooled stone, to N of entrance block the wall raised when
visitor block built outside in the 1950s; the enclosure was
enlarged c1857 and the perimeter wall rebuilt further north.
The archway roof is rib-vaulted and flanking doorways have
deep chamfers. Above the archway, facing the yard,
inscription: 'PERKIN AND BACKHOUSE ARCHITECTS AD 1847'.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: see Armley Prison: Inner range (qv).
Listing NGR: SE2805533360
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