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Leeds
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Yorkshire & Humberside

City Square
(Former City Bank)

Agriculture and Manufacture

Attributed to
Joseph Thewlis
1899

Description

Built by architect William Warlow Gwyther for the Yorkshire District Banking Company. On the roof are two sculpture groups.

Boar Lane side	Bishopsgate Street side
Agriculture, woman with a sickle and a sheaf of corn, accompanied by a putto with a plough and a sheep	Manufacture, bearded man with an anvil, accompanied by an eagle.

Sculptor

Joseph Thewlis (Leeds 1862 - Leeds 1921), English sculptor from Leeds (Mapping of Sculpture).

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, City Square, Leeds.
Historic England, Statue of King William III and flanking lamps.
The Victorian Web, Former Headquarters of the Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds.
Bob Speel, Sculpture in Leeds City Square.

Locatie (N 53°47'45" - W 1°32'48") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: gbyh105; Photograph: 28 July 2019
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