A D R O L D A L A N E D E O U R R B K R A P B C E D Y H C A R M D E O AN I A G T L W A D A O N N O D R M A D O O R O R L St Paul’s House 1999 R ROUNDHAY ROAD (A58) A L A OAD A N N O N D O E D R O D A N D E 1 2 S 7 8 R Kirkstall Abbey Armley Mills H Municipal Buildings Park Square A E L E C ) In 1152 work began to build Kirkstall Abbey With the River Aire taking a sweeping P 8 Often described as the ‘Municipal Palace’, During the 1780s the Park Estate was built S 5 C on a remote wooded site on the River Aire, curve around a narrow plateau and its A A the Municipal Buildings were designed here on the site of a medieval park. Work to ( W R O E three miles north-west of the centre of rocky bed providing a natural fall, Armley construct Park Square itself began in 1788. S by George Corson, who went on to create N O B A T D L Leeds. This mighty Cistercian monastery, Mills occupies one of the best sites in E L R Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House. The people who lived there were some of H N E O H T West Yorkshire for harnessing the power E I E with its church, gatehouse (now Abbey U T Completed between 1881 and 1884, it the leading families in Leeds - merchants, I P S M House Museum), dormitories, chapter house of water. There has been a mill here since E W Y S lawyers, surgeons and the clergy. The A O housed the water, rates, gas, and civic L A L A L U and dining halls took 30 years to complete. at least 1559. In 1788 Colonel Thomas N K C E T engineers’ offices, the hackney carriage estate even had its own church, St. Paul’s, H ( Today, nearly 900 years later, it is one of Lloyd’s mill on the site was destroyed by A 6 ( department and the Public Library. The demolished in 1905. Gradually, land to 6 A the best preserved Cistercian ruins in the the first of a series of fires. It was following 0 6 the south was developed for industrial use 1 ceiling of the Reading Room was so ) T ) E country and one of the city’s major tourist one such fire in 1805 that the ‘fireproof’ beautiful it was said to distract people E including Benjamin Gott’s Park Mills at Bean AD R O T attractions. The monks of Kirkstall became woollen mill we see today was built by S R from their reading. The Art Gallery was Ing. St Paul’s House in Park Square was built T T W Benjamin Gott. Despite taking direct hits wealthy landowners and were responsible built in 1888 as a grand extension. OverE in 1878 in the ‘Moorish’ style as a clothing OAD K for the development of agriculture over from air-raids in 1942, the mill, under C R I N N E R the years this impressive building hasE also warehouse for John Barran, the pioneer of E R I N G R O B U A WILLO D a wide area. In 1280 the Abbey owned the ownership of Bentley & Tempest Ltd, ( D housed the City Museum. Today it is the ‘ready to wear’ clothing. During the 19th V A 5 A 8 ( E M O 11,000 sheep and so began the story of continued production until 1969. Today it ) Central Library and Leeds Art Gallery, with century the houses were converted to offices, L ) R L the cloth industry in Leeds. The wool was houses the LeedsE Industrial Museum, home K the former Reading Room, now the Tiled largely for the medical and legal professions. B R taken by packhorse to the ports of Hull and to internationally significant collections E A Hall café, linking the two - its dazzling tiles Today Park Square is a delightful oasis in the N P Premier A Scarborough for export to Italy, where it telling the story of industrial Leeds. Inn L L SKI and ceiling beautifully restored. busy city, still surrounded by offices with the T L NN E R L A N E I E P became famous for its high quality. V same elegant facades. Y O A L L C C A W ) L C ARENA 1 L A V O R E O E N D R D L O H 1 A&E E ( A 6 N O Y T House Museum Abbey & Kirkstall R U O S S A T T E E D 02 E REE R N E Academy L A E R A L S T E T N E T S E D 6 A NT H Woodhouse ( W T E A R Square G 6 O N E 6 R E 0 T A A ) T LS5 3EH G B A REE M E M T R R I E S 5 O N S T T R A S E E T G G I E R OFT N B B Y O T A R K R N L O W A A P A R D ( K L E A 6 A R 4 M N E N ) A UR 2 ESTGATE 7 C W I B LS12 2QF Armley Mills T H V E H E A D R O W 1963 – now demolished c2002 First White Cloth Hall, Kirkgate. Copyright Peter Brears E D A R C E A S T G A A T E 3 4 P 9 10 Bean Ing Mill Central Station 8 Corn Exchange First White Cloth Hall T GREEK ST D S F E A W NE S Following his triumph with Leeds Town Hall, In 1711, to compete with nearby towns, Built by Benjamin Gott in 1792 and extended E Lifting Tower T O POLICE Pinnacle P E A R LA G in 1829, Bean Ing was the world’s first Cuthbert Brodrick was chosen in 1860 to the first White Cloth Hall for trading white The former truck-lifting tower of Central L K R B T A R integrated woollen mill. For the first time, I E Northern design the Corn Exchange. Still considered one (undyed) cloth was built in Kirkgate. Local C A B O O R Station is the only surviving building of the T N Ballet & U P D D ’S E N all processes taking raw wool to finished S VI Phoenix of Britain’s finest Victorian buildings, it was merchants and tradesman provided the E T P Great Northern Railway complex. Over 10m E R S C I A S C O M M E R L S T Dance P T T T T cloth took place on one site, although deliberately located near the E markets and the £1,000 for the build. According to Ralph A BUS & Theatre S R high and originally one of a pair, it dates from K ( T R G I E E E R A E C K A G G COACH R White Cloth Hall. Brodrick had visited France Thoresby the 18th century historian, the A traditional domestic techniques for spinning E 6 T N A S the opening of the station in 1846, and was N T T K A E 1 R C L I O TRINITY RIG STATION ) S W E Y in 1844 and it is thought he modelledC his Hall was built on the site of old alms-houses and weaving lasted thereT for some years. L L K The Markets R I N G B O E used to lift goods trucks from the low-level T O N LEEDS (Multi-storey) E S T Y O R K S T R E E T M T R E E T design on the corn exchange in Paris, the Halle ‘upon pillars and arches in the form of To save on space, its stair towers were built D ( A Leeds and Thirsk Railway’s depot to the high M 6 U 4 O 7 Wellington K au Blé, with its cast iron dome and wide, open an exchange, with a quadrangular court externally. In order to provide gas )lighting for 9 10 D level passenger line on the viaduct arches. Place E 3 4 A B T the workers, Gott built his own gas plant for AIRE STREET O A R F S courtyard surrounded by a vaulted arcade with within.’ In recent times it became shops L I The scars of the demolished viaduct can A N E T O R the mill, just as John Marshall did in his flax open arches. The ornate Leeds CornN Exchange and an amusement arcade. As trade in Leeds E still be seen on the tower’s south side. The N Station R T K I R K G A T E E R E U mill south of the River Aire in Holbeck. Other T is built from local stone. The windowsO in the Leeds expanded, a second White Cloth Hall OAD C O Leeds station closed in 1967 and was demolished. W A T ( Wellington R H A Minster D innovations included the installation of the Place A L L E C A L L S I G Ibis vast oval hall were specifically designed to was built in Meadow Lane, south of the E 6 S E T H Now the tower stands alone – a monument to EH T A T I O H Budget M T N S T R 1 I ) Hotel first heated cloth dye houses in 1814.