The Cartwright Memorial Hall (Art Gallery and Museum) in Lister Park is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1963. Museum, art gallery. 3 related planning applications.
The Cartwright Memorial Hall (Art Gallery and Museum) in Lister Park
- WRENN ID
- steep-panel-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Bradford West MP: Naz Shah (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1963
- Type
- Museum, art gallery
- Address
- The Cartwright Memorial Hall (Art Gallery and Museum) in Lister Park, BD9 4NS
- OS grid reference
- SE 151 351
- Coordinates
- 53.81216, -1.77171
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cartwright Memorial Hall, which serves as an art gallery and museum, is located in Lister Park and was built between 1900 and 1903 based on a design that won a competition by architects J W Simpson and M Allen. This grand neo-Baroque building features high-quality ashlar masonry and has a symmetrical layout with pilastered wings. The central two-storey section includes a large semi-circular arched port cochère, which is topped by a Venetian aedicule balcony and an open pediment. The pediment is supported by coupled, enriched, Roman Ionic engaged columns, and above it is a stepped attic that holds an elaborately detailed cupola with statues at the corners of its base. Inside, the hall is designed in a grand Baroque style, featuring an imperial staircase leading to the upper floor, a glazed barrel vaulted columned landing, and top light galleries. The design of Cartwright Hall shows some resemblance to the Palais de Justice in Brussels.
Local climate
The Cartwright Memorial Hall (Art Gallery and Museum) in Lister Park sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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