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Latitude: 53.7967 / 53°47'47"N
Longitude: -1.5475 / 1°32'51"W
OS Eastings: 429901
OS Northings: 433467
OS Grid: SE299334
Mapcode National: GBR BJL.4S
Mapcode Global: WHC9D.6TBS
Plus Code: 9C5WQFW2+MX
Entry Name: Four Lamp Posts: 'Even'
Listing Date: 5 August 1976
Last Amended: 11 September 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1255575
English Heritage Legacy ID: 465888
ID on this website: 101255575
Location: Granary Wharf, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1
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: Leeds St George
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Streetlight Statue
SE2933SE
714-1/77/100
05/08/76
LEEDS
CITY SQUARE
Four lamp posts: 'Even'
(Formerly Listed as:
CITY SQUARE
Eight lamp standards)
GV
II
Four statues supporting lamps. 1903. By Alfred Drury. Polished
granite plinth, bronze life-size figures on square bases with
the lettering: 'EVEN/ THE GIFT OF T. WALTER HARDING 1903';
'ALF. DRURY ARA Sc'; and 'J.W.SINGER & SONS FOUNDERS'. Nude
female figures with drapery and left arm raised to support a
torch (not original).
Part of the lighting scheme for the City Square designed by
William Bakewell for T Walter Harding, 1903. The figures,
representing 'Even', originally stood on the balustrade and
flanked the entrances to the square, holding tall lamps with
glass ball shades. Matches the group, 'Morn' (qv).
(Payne, B & Payne D: Old Leeds in Photographs: 2-3).
Listing NGR: SE2990133467
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