Statue Of Dean Hook

SE2933SE 714-1/77/104 26/09/63

LEEDS

CITY SQUARE (North West side) Statue of Dean Hook (Formerly Listed as: LEEDS CITY SQUARE Statues of Joseph Priestley, Dean Hook, John Harrison and James Watt)

GV II

Statue of Dean Hook. 1902. By FW Pomeroy. Polished granite plinth with bronze plaque with raised lettering: 'Dr HOOK/ VICAR OF LEEDS/ 1837-1859'. Bronze life-size statue on a square base with raised lettering: 'THE GIFT OF/ T WALTER HARDING/ 1903' and the sculptor's name. HISTORICAL NOTE: the Revd Dr Walter Farquhar Hook was instrumental in the development of a new liturgical and pastoral mission for the Church of England in an urban community and rebuilt Leeds Parish Church of St Peter, Hough Lane (qv), consecrated in 1841. T Walter Harding owned the Tower Works, Globe Road (qv), and paid for the construction of City Square, designed by William Bakewell. The statue was one of four standing on a balustrade facing out of the square, towards the Post Office. (Payne, B & Payne, D: Old Leeds in Photographs: 2-3; Fraser, D: A History of Modern Leeds: Manchester: 1980-: 254).

Listing NGR: SE2988033466