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Armley Prison: Entrance Range and Flanking Walls

A Grade II* Listed Building in Armley, Leeds

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Coordinates

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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Description


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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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