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Latitude: 53.7965 / 53°47'47"N
Longitude: -1.5481 / 1°32'53"W
OS Eastings: 429865
OS Northings: 433449
OS Grid: SE298334
Mapcode National: GBR BJL.1V
Mapcode Global: WHC9D.6T2X
Plus Code: 9C5WQFW2+JQ
Entry Name: Statue of James Watt
Listing Date: 26 September 1963
Last Amended: 11 September 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375034
English Heritage Legacy ID: 465914
ID on this website: 101375034
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
Tagged with: Statue
SE2933SE
714-1/77/105
26/09/63
LEEDS
CITY SQUARE
Statue of James Watt
(Formerly Listed as:
CITY SQUARE
Statues of Joseph Priestley, Dean
Hook, John Harrison and James Watt)
GV
II
Statue of James Watt. 1898. By HC Fehr. Polished granite
plinth with bronze plaque and raised lettering: 'JAMES/ WATT/
1736-1819'. Life-size bronze statue on a square base with
raised lettering: 'THE GIFT OF/ RICHARD WAINWRIGHT 1898/
ERECTED 1903'. On the rear of the base: 'J W SINGER & SONS LTD
FOUNDERS'.
One of 4 statues of prominent men in Leeds' history, part of
the City Square design by William Bakewell for Walter Harding,
completed 1903.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the firm of Boulton and Watt supplied
machines to some of the first steam-powered mills in the town
at the end of the C18; historians of the town's industrial
development have since suggested however that a statue of the
local engineer, Matthew Murray, whose Round Foundry Complex,
Foundry Street pioneered the steam engine, would have been
more appropriate.
(Scott, E Kilburn: Matthew Murray, Pioneer Engineer: Leeds:
1928-).
Listing NGR: SE2986533449
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