Maurice Keyworth Building, University Of Leeds

The Maurice Keyworth Building, originally Leeds Grammar School, is a grammar school and headmaster's house dating from 1858-59, with additions from 1904-5 and 20th-century alterations. It was designed by EM Barry and later extended by Austin and Paley. The building is constructed of coursed gritstone with a steep-pitched fish-scale slate roof and follows a cruciform plan.

The original school section features decorated traceried windows and six small gables, with depressed-arch ground-floor windows. A gabled cross-wing to the right includes a four-light traceried window and a balustraded balcony to the first floor. The main entrance, located to the left of the cross-wing, has double doors with quatrefoil panels, a moulded shouldered arch, attached columns, a glazed traceried overlight, and a hoodmould carrying the inscription 'NISI DOMINUS AEDIFICAVERIT DOMUM IN VANUM LABORAVERUNT QUI AEDIFICANT EAM'. A carved frieze is situated at floor level. The rear of the building shows upper-storey additions, and a later range on the left has the inscription 'A.M.D.S. 'NISI DOMINUS FRUSTRA' 'AD iii KAL MAI MCMIV'. The left return features paired two-light windows on the ground floor and, above, a four-light traceried window, with octagonal corner buttresses and pinnacles. A two-bay extension to the left is recessed, with an arched entrance on the right bay, roses in the spandrels, and a shield above cross windows. Attached to the front right is the former headmaster’s house, now offices, with a projecting stack between cusped windows with hoodmoulds, and three- and two-light windows. A later range, set back on the right, features four bays, buttresses between six-light transomed windows, gables with quatrefoil piercings, and gable coping with a gabled kneeler on the right.

Inside the main range, the upper floor assembly hall now functions as a library. A plaster plaque depicting Christ in the Temple, originally from the school's North Street premises, is located above the entrance. The interior also has carved capitals to attached columns between dormer windows and eleven collar-beam trusses with cusped decoration. EM Barry was the third son of Sir Charles Barry, the architect of the Houses of Parliament, and brother of the headmaster of the Grammar School.