Four Lamp Posts: 'Morn' is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1976. Lamp posts.
Four Lamp Posts: 'Morn'
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-gargoyle-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds Central and Headingley MP: Alex Sobel (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1976
- Type
- Lamp posts
- Address
- Four Lamp Posts: 'Morn', City Square
- OS grid reference
- SE 298 334
- Coordinates
- 53.79636, -1.54807
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The four lamp posts known as 'Morn' were created in 1903 by Alfred Drury and are located in City Square, Leeds. Each lamp post features a polished granite plinth with a bronze life-size statue on a square base. The bases are inscribed with the lettering: 'MORN/ THE GIFT OF T. WALTER HARDING 1903'; 'ALF. DRURY ARA Sc'; and 'J.W.SINGER & SONS FOUNDERS'. The statues depict nude female figures holding flowers and drapery, with the right arm raised to hold a torch, although the torch is not original. These figures, representing 'Morn', were originally placed on the balustrade to flank the entrances to the square, where they held tall lamps with glass ball shades. This installation is part of the lighting scheme for City Square, which was designed by William Bakewell for T. Walter Harding in 1903. The lamp posts match another group known as 'Even'.
Local climate
Four Lamp Posts: 'Morn' receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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