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List of blue plaques in Leeds

Leeds Civic Trust started its blue plaque scheme in 1987 and in 2019 it had over 170 plaques.[1] They can be suggested by the public and sponsored by organisations. This list of plaques is in order of date of unveiling.

Before commemorating a person or building, it is given objective evaluation against specific criteria to ensure it is of high significance.[2] The Blue Plaques record the impact of significant persons in the city's history. The first plaque, the Burley Bar Stone, was unveiled in November 1987 marking one of the medieval gates of Leeds, the stone itself surviving within the building of the Leeds Building Society on Albion Street.[3] The West Bar and East Bar were also marked, and in 2017 the 164th plaque marked the North Bar.[4] All plaques are monitored by Trust members and those in very poor condition are returned to the manufacturer for repainting.[5]

In association with the 2018 Leeds Pride event, the Trust created a trail of Rainbow Plaques to commemorate individuals, significant places and events which have contributed to the LGBT+ history of Leeds.[6]

Leeds Civic Trust

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Burley Bar Stone

This stone, now housed inside the main entrance of Leeds Building Society, marked the medieval boundary between the manorial borough, or town, of Leeds and Leeds Main Riding, the surrounding agricultural land. First recorded 1726

Leeds Building Society, 105 Albion Street
LS1 5AS
53°47′56″N 1°32′42″W / 53.799°N 1.545°W / 53.799; -1.545
1987 (1987) 4946 Unveiler: Lord Marshall of Leeds
Sponsor: Leeds Building Society
Louis Le Prince
(1841-1890)

Louis Aime August Le Prince came to Leeds in 1866 where he experimented in cinematography. In 1888 he patented a one-lens camera with which he filmed Leeds Bridge from this British Waterways building. These were probably the world's first successful moving pictures.

British Waterways, Leeds Bridge, Lower Briggate
LS1 4DJ
53°47′35″N 1°32′28″W / 53.793°N 1.541°W / 53.793; -1.541
1988 (1988) More images 2433 Unveiler: William Le Prince Huettle, great-grandson of Louis Le Prince
Sponsor: British Waterways Board
Louis Le Prince
(1841-1890)

The pioneer of cinematography had a workshop on this site where he invented a one-lens camera and a projecting machine. Le Prince produced what are believed to be the world's first moving pictures taken on Leeds Bridge in 1888.

Old Broadcasting House, 148 Woodhouse Lane
LS2 8EN
53°48′18″N 1°32′56″W / 53.805°N 1.549°W / 53.805; -1.549
1988 (1988) More images 5038 Unveiler: Richard Attenborough
Sponsor: BBC
Temple Works

The magnificent but highly functional flax spinning mill to your left was erected by John Marshall, founder of the Leeds Flax Industry. Joseph Bonomi modelled it and this office building (added in 1843) on the Egyptian temple at Edfu. Erected 1838-40

Temple Works, Marshall Street, Holbeck
LS1 9YJ
53°47′24″N 1°33′11″W / 53.790°N 1.553°W / 53.790; -1.553
1989 (1989) More images 5048 Unveiler: Bruce Taylor
Sponsor: Kay & Company
18 Park Place

This house, restored to its former grandeur by MEPC plc in 1988, is situated in one of the most elegant streets of Georgian Leeds. Merchants and gentlemen were attracted here by the then beautiful view of the river and neighbouring hills. Erected 1788.

18 Park Place
LS1 2SJ
53°47′49″N 1°33′07″W / 53.797°N 1.552°W / 53.797; -1.552
1989 (1989) More images 10173 Unveiler: Christopher Benson, Chairman of MEPC plc
Sponsor: MEPC plc
The Victoria Hotel

The Victoria Hotel was built in 1865 to serve people attending the Assize Courts newly held at Leeds Town Hall. Its stylish accommodation then comprised spacious dining rooms and bars, a billiard room and large meeting room, private sitting rooms and 28 bedrooms.

28 Great George Street
LS1 3DL
53°48′00″N 1°32′56″W / 53.800°N 1.549°W / 53.800; -1.549
1989 (1989) More images 5002 Unveiler: John Power MBE, Deputy Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire
Sponsor: Joshua Tetley & Sons Ltd
The Assembly Rooms

Its handsomely decorated ballroom and card rooms made it one of Yorkshire's finest assembly rooms. Its patrons were the Leeds merchants and the local nobility and gentry. The ground floor formed the northern range of the third White Cloth Hall. Opened 9 June 1777

Crown Street
LS2 7DA
53°47′42″N 1°32′20″W / 53.795°N 1.539°W / 53.795; -1.539
1989 (1989) More images 5054 Unveiler: Mr Bettison (Senior)
Sponsor: Bruce Bettison, then Owner of Waterloo Antiques
Kemplay’s Academy

This fine house, built in 1720 for Matthew Wilson, is shown on John Cossins’s Plan of Leeds in 1725. In 1817 Richard Kemplay purchased the property to house his ‘Academy for Young Gentlemen’.

Nash’s Tudor Fish Restaurant, New Briggate
LS2 8JE
53°48′00″N 1°32′28″W / 53.800°N 1.541°W / 53.800; -1.541
1989 (1989) Unveiler: Lawrence Bellhouse
Sponsor: Nash’s Tudor Fish Restaurant
Brodrick’s Building

These fine shops and offices were designed by Cuthbert Brodrick (1822-1905) the architect of Leeds Town Hall, the Corn Exchange and the Mechanics' Institute. They were renovated by Trinity Services in 1988. Erected 1864

Cookridge Street
LS2 3AW
53°48′04″N 1°32′49″W / 53.801°N 1.547°W / 53.801; -1.547
1989 (1989) 4942 Unveiler: John M. Quinlan, Director of Trinity Services
Sponsor: Trinity Services
The West Bar

The bar stone marking the western boundary of the built-up area of the medieval town of Leeds stood here. Scarcely a single building lay in the old manorial park to the west of this point before 1758.

Bond Street Centre, Boar Lane
LS1 5HL
53°47′46″N 1°32′49″W / 53.796°N 1.547°W / 53.796; -1.547
1989 (1989) 41092 Unveiler: Councillor J.L. Carter, Lord Mayor of Leeds
Sponsor: Bond Street Shopping Centre Merchants’ Association
Park Square

This elegant square formed part of the Wilson family's plan to create a high-class residential estate on the site of the medieval park of the Manor of Leeds. Its residents were merchants, clergy, lawyers and surgeons. Built 1788-1810

45 Park Square
LS1 2NP
53°47′56″N 1°33′04″W / 53.799°N 1.551°W / 53.799; -1.551
1989 (1989) More images 5006 Unveiler: Anthony Blackmore of Simpson Curtis
Sponsor: Simpson Curtis Solicitors
Leeds Manor House

The medieval manor house stood here on 'Castle Hill'. Its deep moat looped between the river and Boar Lane. Richard Wilson lavishly rebuilt it in 1765 and in 1823 it became Henry Scarborough's hotel. The present-day pub is a surviving extension.

Scarbrough Hotel, Bishopgate Street
LS1 5DY
51°00′00″N 0°00′00″E / 51.000°N -0.000°E / 51.000; -0.000
1989 (1989) More images 4922 Unveiler: Maurice Beresford
Sponsor: Joshua Tetley & Sons Ltd
St Pauls House

This building was originally a warehouse and cloth-cutting works built for John Barran, the founder of the mass-production, ready-made clothing industry in Leeds. Barran was a Mayor of Leeds and served as its Liberal M.P. from 1876 - 1885 Architect: Thomas Ambler Erected 1878

23 Park Square
LS1 2ND
53°47′53″N 1°33′07″W / 53.798°N 1.552°W / 53.798; -1.552
1989 (1989) More images 5000 Unveiler: Mr K.E. Reynolds of the Fire Society
Sponsor: Norwich Union
Leeds Charity School

The chapel of Harrison's Almshouses, which formerly occupied this site, was converted for use by the Charity School in 1726. When the present building was erected in 1815, the institution clothed 80 poor girls in blue and trained them for domestic service. Founded 1705

Mark Lane
LS2 8JA
53°47′56″N 1°32′31″W / 53.799°N 1.542°W / 53.799; -1.542
1989 (1989) More images 4992 Unveiler: Neville Rowell, Vice-President of Leeds Civic Trust
Sponsor: Neville Rowell
Hotel Metropole

This fine hotel designed by Chorley, Connon and Chorley is one of the best examples of terracotta work in Leeds. A remarkable feature is the large stone cupola taken from the town's fourth White Cloth Hall (erected in 1868) which formerly occupied this site. Opened 1899

King Street
LS1 2HQ
53°47′46″N 1°33′00″W / 53.796°N 1.550°W / 53.796; -1.550
1989 (1989) More images 5018 Unveiler: Lord Strathclyde, Minister for Tourism
Sponsor: Crown Hotels
Yorkshire Penny Bank

This famous bank, later known as Yorkshire Bank, was founded at Leeds in 1856. These flamboyant premises, designed by G. B. Bulmer, were opened in 1894. The first purpose-built Leeds General Infirmary (1771) formerly stood on this site.

Aspire, Infirmary Street
LS1 2HJ
53°47′49″N 1°32′53″W / 53.797°N 1.548°W / 53.797; -1.548
1990 (1990) 9002 Unveiler: David Mortimer of Yorkshire Bank
Sponsor: Yorkshire Bank plc
William Hey’s House

This impressive Georgian townhouse was built for William Hey (1736-1819) one of the founders and later Chief Surgeon of Leeds General Infirmary. For 50 years Hey was in the front rank of British surgeons. Architect: Thomas Johnson Erected 1794-5

Leeds Law Society, 1 Albion Place
LS1 6JL
53°47′49″N 1°32′38″W / 53.797°N 1.544°W / 53.797; -1.544
1990 (1990) 4948 Sponsor: Leeds Law Society
Leeds Infirmary

The General Infirmary moved here from Infirmary Street in 1869. The building, designed by George Gilbert Scott, incorporated ideas from Florence Nightingale. The plan placed it in the foremost rank of European hospitals.

Great George Street
LS1 3EX
53°48′04″N 1°33′00″W / 53.801°N 1.550°W / 53.801; -1.550
1990 (1990) More images 5008 Unveiler: Neville Rowell
Sponsor: Medical Faculty of the LGI
Leeds School of Medicine

This institution, founded in 1831, was one of the first provincial medical schools in England. The move here from Park Street in 1894 provided the school with its second purpose-built premises. Architect: W. H. Thorp Erected 1891-94

Thorsby Place
LS1 3BY
53°48′04″N 1°33′07″W / 53.801°N 1.552°W / 53.801; -1.552
1990 (1990) More images 10169 Unveiler: Professor M.S. Losowsky, University of Leeds
Sponsor: Faculty of Medicine, University of Leeds
Queens Court

This historic courtyard occupies one of the 60 burgage plots which abutted Briggate in the Middle Ages. It is fronted by an eight-bayed woollen cloth merchant's house (built c.1714) and contains the merchant's cloth finishing shops and warehouses.

Lower Briggate
LS1 6DT
53°47′42″N 1°32′28″W / 53.795°N 1.541°W / 53.795; -1.541
1990 (1990) More images 41159 Unveiler: Brian Prideaux
Sponsor: Brian Prideaux
Leeds and Liverpool Canal Warehouse

In 1777 this robust stone building was constructed as a terminal warehouse for the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Started in 1770, the canal was finally completed in 1816 at a cost of £1,200,000 - nearly five times the original estimate.

Canal Basin, Water Lane
LS11 5PS
53°47′31″N 1°32′53″W / 53.792°N 1.548°W / 53.792; -1.548
1990 (1990) 5046 Unveiler: Len Davis
Sponsor: Len Davis
Bank of England

The Bank of England opened a branch in Leeds in 1827. These premises, entered from South Parade, were designed by Phillip Hardwick and erected 1862-64. The Bank remained on this site until moving to King Street in 1971.

South Parade
LS1 5HD
53°47′56″N 1°32′49″W / 53.799°N 1.547°W / 53.799; -1.547
1990 (1990) More images 4944 Unveiler: Les Carter, Lord Mayor of Leeds
Sponsor: Bank of England
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The Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen was founded in 1880. Because of the convenience and importance of Leeds as a railway centre, the Society established its first registered office here at the Commercial Inn, Sweet Street in 1881.

Commercial Inn, Sweet Street
LS11 9TE
53°47′20″N 1°33′25″W / 53.789°N 1.557°W / 53.789; -1.557
1991 (1991) More images 10174 Unveiler: Derrick Fullick, General Secretary
Sponsor: ASLEF
The Great Synagogue

In 1860 the first purpose-built Synagogue in Yorkshire since the expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290 was erected here. Until 1983 it served the Jewish community, which had settled in the Leylands (between North Street and Regent Street) in the 19th century.

Belgrave Street
LS2 8DD
53°48′04″N 1°32′28″W / 53.801°N 1.541°W / 53.801; -1.541
1991 (1991) 41925 Unveiler: Rabbi Dr Solomon Brown
Sponsor: The United Hebrew Congregation
Mill Hill Chapel and Joseph Priestley
1733-1804

This elegant Gothic building, designed by Bowman and Crowther in 1848, replaced the original 17th century chapel. Its congregation - formerly Presbyterian, now Unitarian - dates from 1672. Joseph Priestley LLD FRS discoverer of oxygen, was minister here 1767-1773.

Mill Hill Unitarian Chapel, Park Row
LS1 5EB
53°47′49″N 1°32′46″W / 53.797°N 1.546°W / 53.797; -1.546
1991 (1991) More images 4998 Unveiler: Eila Forrester
Sponsor: Leeds & Holbeck Building Society
The Church Institute

The power house behind the advancement of religious and secular education on the principles of the Church of England in Leeds, and the home for a host of Church organisations. The British Deaf Association was founded here on 24 July 1890. Erected 1866-68.

23 Albion Place
LS1 6JS
53°47′49″N 1°32′35″W / 53.797°N 1.543°W / 53.797; -1.543
1991 (1991) 5014 Sponsor: British Deaf Association
Coloured Cloth Hall

Leeds' most splendid Georgian cloth hall, built in 1758, stood on this site. Projecting to the centre of City Square, its massive quandrangular structure housed 1770 stalls for clothiers selling dyed woollen cloth at the Tuesday and Saturday markets.

Cloth Hall Court, Infirmary Street
LS1 2ES
53°47′46″N 1°32′53″W / 53.796°N 1.548°W / 53.796; -1.548
1991 (1991) 10175 Unveiler: D.F.L. Sykes
Sponsor: Hepworth & Chadwick, Solicitors
Fairbairn House

Originally known as Woodsley House, this monumental villa was built in 1840 for Sir Peter Fairbairn, the textile engineering magnate, and Mayor of Leeds 1858-59. Queen Victoria stayed here in 1858 when she came to open the Town Hall.

71-75 Clarendon Road
LS2 9PH
53°48′14″N 1°33′40″W / 53.804°N 1.561°W / 53.804; -1.561
1991 (1991) More images 5010 Unveiler: Alan Roberts, Pro-Chancellor, University of Leeds
Sponsor: University of Leeds
Atkinson Grimshaw
1836 - 1893

Landscape painter lived here 1866-70

56 Cliff Road, Hyde Park
LS6 2EZ
53°49′01″N 1°33′32″W / 53.817°N 1.559°W / 53.817; -1.559
1991 (1991) More images 41926 Unveiler: Dr Tony Moyes
Sponsor: Members of the Grimshaw family and North Hyde Park Neighbourhood Association
John Harrison
1579-1656

St. John's, one of England's most remarkable churches, was built by this celebrated benefactor in 1634. A cloth merchant and co-founder of Leeds Corporation, he further endowed the town with almshouses, a new grammar school and a market cross.

St John the Evangelist Church
LS2 8JD
53°47′56″N 1°32′28″W / 53.799°N 1.541°W / 53.799; -1.541
1991 (1991) More images 5060 Unveiler: Neville Rowell
Sponsor: Neville Rowell
White Cloth Hall

This superbly restored gateway belonged to the magnificent quadrangular market hall which underpinned the prosperity of Georgian Leeds. Merchants and 1300 West Riding clothiers met here on Tuesdays and Saturdays to trade in undyed 'white' woollen cloth. Built 1775-76

Crown Street
LS1 7RB
53°47′42″N 1°32′20″W / 53.795°N 1.539°W / 53.795; -1.539
1991 (1991) More images 5052 Unveiler: D.J. Houghton
Sponsor: Speciality Shops plc
Joshua Tetley
1778-1859

In 1822 Joshua Tetley bought William Sykes' brewery business which had stood here since 1792. Joshua's enterprise and fine quality ales created a reputation which for over 150 years has made the name 'Tetleys' synonymous with the City of Leeds.

The Brewery Gates, Hunslet Road
LS10 1JQ
53°47′28″N 1°32′20″W / 53.791°N 1.539°W / 53.791; -1.539
1992 (1992) More images 5050 Unveiler: Charles Tetley, Great-grandson of Joshua Tetley
Sponsor: Joshua Tetley & Sons Ltd
Ralph Thoresby, F.R.S.
1658-1725

The historian of Leeds had his home and museum here.

15 Kirkgate
LS2 7HH
53°47′49″N 1°32′24″W / 53.797°N 1.540°W / 53.797; -1.540
1992 (1992) 10178 Unveiler: Arthur Elton
Sponsor: Thoresby Society
51°00′00″N 0°00′00″E / 51.000°N -0.000°E / 51.000; -0.000  () Unveiler:
Sponsor:


Wetherby

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Otley Town Council

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References

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  1. ^ "Leeds Civic Trust". The Secret Library - Leeds Libraries Heritage Blog. 13 September 2019. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Blue Plaques Principal Criteria" (PDF). Leeds Civic Trust. 2017. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
  3. ^ Dyson, Peter; Grady, Kevin (2001). Blue Plaques of Leeds. Leeds: Leeds Civic Trust. ISBN 0-905671-22-8.
  4. ^ "The North Bar Plaque: A Medieval Gateway to Leeds". leedscivictrust.org.uk. 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  5. ^ "Annual Report 2015/16" (PDF). Leeds Civic Trust. September 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  6. ^ "Rainbow plaque trail set for Leeds". Yorkshire Evening Post. 12 February 2018. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
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