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Statue of Dean Hook

A Grade II Listed Building in City and Hunslet, Leeds

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Latitude: 53.7967 / 53°47'47"N

Longitude: -1.5478 / 1°32'52"W

OS Eastings: 429880

OS Northings: 433466

OS Grid: SE298334

Mapcode National: GBR BJL.2S

Mapcode Global: WHC9D.6T5S

Plus Code: 9C5WQFW2+MV

Entry Name: Statue of Dean Hook

Listing Date: 26 September 1963

Last Amended: 11 September 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1375032

English Heritage Legacy ID: 465912

ID on this website: 101375032

Location: Granary Wharf, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1

County: Leeds

Electoral Ward/Division: City and Hunslet

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

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Description


SE2933SE
714-1/77/104
26/09/63

LEEDS

CITY SQUARE
(North West side)
Statue of Dean Hook
(Formerly Listed as:
LEEDS CITY SQUARE
Statues of Joseph Priestley, Dean
Hook, John Harrison and James Watt)

GV
II

Statue of Dean Hook. 1902. By FW Pomeroy. Polished granite
plinth with bronze plaque with raised lettering: 'Dr HOOK/
VICAR OF LEEDS/ 1837-1859'. Bronze life-size statue on a
square base with raised lettering: 'THE GIFT OF/ T WALTER
HARDING/ 1903' and the sculptor's name.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Revd Dr Walter Farquhar Hook was
instrumental in the development of a new liturgical and
pastoral mission for the Church of England in an urban
community and rebuilt Leeds Parish Church of St Peter, Hough
Lane (qv), consecrated in 1841. T Walter Harding owned the
Tower Works, Globe Road (qv), and paid for the construction of
City Square, designed by William Bakewell.
The statue was one of four standing on a balustrade facing out
of the square, towards the Post Office.
(Payne, B & Payne, D: Old Leeds in Photographs: 2-3; Fraser,
D: A History of Modern Leeds: Manchester: 1980-: 254).

Listing NGR: SE2988033466

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