Description

LEEDS

SE33SW BECKETT STREET, Sheepscar
714-1/11/1104 (West side)
22/11/74 St James' Hospital: Southside
Building

GV II

Moral and industrial training school, now part of hospital.
Dated 1848, 1904-06 alterations. By Perkin and Backhouse of
Leeds. Red brick, stone dressings, slate roof.
3 storeys, 5 unequal bays with 21 windows, central and end
bays project with Dutch gables, octagonal stone turrets with
ogee domes and 3-storey canted bays. Centre: tall mullion and
transom stair window and round arch doorway with pilasters and
finials over entablature, gable inscription with date. Parapet
with pierced stone panels, moulded string course, stone window
architraves. 2 large ridge stacks with bracketed cornices.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Built as Industrial and Moral Training School, foundation
stone laid 14/10/1846, opened October 1848. For 499 children,
the school cost »14,000. The building is now part of St James'
Hospital.
(RCHME: Report: St James's University Hospital: 1995-).

Listing NGR: SE3167634597

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547805

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