Four Lamp Posts: 'Even' is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1976. A C20 Lamp posts.

Four Lamp Posts: 'Even'

WRENN ID: outer-garret-nightshade
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Leeds
Country: England
Date first listed: 5 August 1976
Type: Lamp posts
Source: Historic England listing

Description

SE2933SE 714-1/77/100 05/08/76

LEEDS

CITY SQUARE Four lamp posts: 'Even'

(Formerly Listed as: CITY SQUARE Eight lamp standards)

GV II

Four statues supporting lamps. 1903. By Alfred Drury. Polished granite plinth, bronze life-size figures on square bases with the lettering: 'EVEN/ THE GIFT OF T. WALTER HARDING 1903'; 'ALF. DRURY ARA Sc'; and 'J.W.SINGER & SONS FOUNDERS'. Nude female figures with drapery and left arm raised to support a torch (not original). Part of the lighting scheme for the City Square designed by William Bakewell for T Walter Harding, 1903. The figures, representing 'Even', originally stood on the balustrade and flanked the entrances to the square, holding tall lamps with glass ball shades. Matches the group, 'Morn' (qv). (Payne, B & Payne D: Old Leeds in Photographs: 2-3).

Listing NGR: SE2990133467

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