Latitude: 53.7965 / 53°47'47"N
Longitude: -1.548 / 1°32'52"W
OS Eastings: 429867
OS Northings: 433452
OS Grid: SE298334
Mapcode National: GBR BJL.1V
Mapcode Global: WHC9D.6T3W
Plus Code: 9C5WQFW2+JQ
Entry Name: Statue of John Harrison
Listing Date: 26 September 1963
Last Amended: 11 September 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375039
English Heritage Legacy ID: 465919
ID on this website: 101375039
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
714-1/77/106
26/09/63
LEEDS
CITY SQUARE
Statue of John Harrison
(Formerly Listed as:
CITY SQUARE
Statues of Joseph Priestley, Dean
Hook, John Harrison and James Watt)
GV
II
Statue of John Harrison. 1903. By HC Fehr. Polished granite
plinth with bronze plaque and raised lettering: 'JOHN/
HARRISON/ 1576-1656'. Life-size bronze statue on a square
plinth with raised lettering to front: 'THE GIFT OF/
COUNCILLOR RICHARD BOSTON 1903'.
One of 4 statues of prominent men which stood on the
balustrade of the City Square designed by William Bakewell for
T Walter Harding and completed 1903.
HISTORICAL NOTE: John Harrison was the son of a Leeds cloth
merchant who inherited a considerable fortune and devoted much
of it to supporting the poor of the town. Among his charitable
acts was the rebuilding of the Grammar School, the
construction of Church of St John, Mark Lane (qv), and
Harrison's Almshouses, Raglan Road (qv).
(Burt, S & Grady, K: War, Plague and Trade, Leeds in the C17:
17).
Listing NGR: SE2986733452
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