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Tower Works, the Giotto Tower Dust Extraction Chimney

A Grade II* Listed Building in City and Hunslet, Leeds

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Latitude: 53.7925 / 53°47'32"N

Longitude: -1.5529 / 1°33'10"W

OS Eastings: 429548

OS Northings: 432998

OS Grid: SE295329

Mapcode National: GBR BHN.09

Mapcode Global: WHC9D.3YS0

Plus Code: 9C5WQCRW+XR

Entry Name: Tower Works, the Giotto Tower Dust Extraction Chimney

Listing Date: 5 August 1976

Last Amended: 11 September 1996

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1256247

English Heritage Legacy ID: 465096

ID on this website: 101256247

Location: Camp Field, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS11

County: Leeds

Electoral Ward/Division: City and Hunslet

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Leeds

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Hunslet St Mary the Virgin

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description



LEEDS

SE2933SE GLOBE ROAD, Holbeck
714-1/77/840 (North side (off))
05/08/76 Tower Works, the Giotto Tower dust
extraction chimney
(Formerly Listed as:
GLOBE ROAD
The Giotto Tower (or the Big Tower)
at Tower Works)

GV II*

Also known as: The Big Tower GLOBE ROAD Holbeck.
Dust extraction chimney. 1899, restored 1989. By William
Bakewell for Colonel TW Harding. Polychrome and moulded brick,
Burmantofts tiles. Square in section with octagonal corner
shafts, 4 stages defined by moulded brick strings.
Top stage: blind 'belfry' with 3 panels of gilded tiled panels
by Burmantofts in arched recess to each side; corbel table and
deep panelled cornice surmounted by cast-iron framework and
pinnacle. The structure contained filters to trap metal dust
produced by the pin-making process, probably for reuse. TW
Harding employed William Bakewell to design the extensions to
the factory in 1899, when he was Lord Mayor of Leeds. The
design is based on the campanile (bell tower) of the cathedral
in Florence begun by Giotto in 1334 and illustrated by John
Ruskin in his 'Seven Lamps of Architecture', first published
in 1849. The structure is also known as The Big Tower.
For historical information on the Tower Works see Tower Works:
Entrance range (qv).



Listing NGR: SE2954832998

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