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Victoria Hall including wall, gate-piers and sculpted lions to front area, and railings to rear

Victoria Hall including wall, gate-piers and sculpted lions to front area, and railings to rear, Victoria Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1314205
Date first listed:: 22-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: Victoria Hall including wall, gate-piers and sculpted lions to front area, and railings to rear
Statutory Address:: Victoria Hall including wall, gate-piers and sculpted lions to front area, and railings to rear, Victoria Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1314205
Date first listed:: 22-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: Victoria Hall including wall, gate-piers and sculpted lions to front area, and railings to rear
Statutory Address 1:: Victoria Hall including wall, gate-piers and sculpted lions to front area, and railings to rear, Victoria Road

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Statutory Address:: Victoria Hall including wall, gate-piers and sculpted lions to front area, and railings to rear, Victoria Road

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Shipley
National Grid Reference:: SE 13971 37883

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 5 March 2021 to remove superfluous source details from text and to reformat the text to current standards

SE 1338 SE 8/145

SHIPLEY Saltaire VICTORIA ROAD (east side) Victoria Hall including wall, gate-piers and sculpted lions to front area, and railings to rear

22/11/66

GV II* Saltaire Institute. 1867-71. By Lockwood and Mawson for Titus Salt. Ashlar, with rock-faced stone to basement. Welsh slate roof. T-plan. Two storeys and basement. Symmetrical, eleven bay Italianate facade. Vermiculated quoins to ground floor and portal. Pilaster-quoins to first floor. The central bay breaks forward and is surmounted by an elaborate square tower with pyramidal ashlar roof. Each side of the tower has a modillioned segmental pediment on an enriched entablature, supported by Corinthian columns which frame slender round-arched windows. Elaborate central portal with double, panelled doors, fanlight, and large open segmental pediment supported on large consoles, the tympanum with a cartouche bearing the Salt coat of arms, and flanked by the carved figures of Art and Science by Thomas Milnes. Square-headed basement windows. Round-arched archivolted ground and first-floor windows, the latter framed by fluted Corinthian colonnettes, and with carved head keystones and blind balustrade with turned balusters. Dentilled cornice between ground and first floors. Modillioned cornice forms base to deep, panelled parapet decorated with rosettes and pedimented piers with grotesque winged beasts supporting iron finials. Three-bay return elevations. The main hall projects at rear and is seven bays long by five bays wide with tall slender round-arched windows with glazing bars and circles in heads.

Interior: the entrance hall has a large, stone dog-leg staircase with large square piers and vertically symmetrical turned balusters. The main hall has an elaborately plastered, coffered roof. Pilasters mark the bay divisions and support a bracketed entablature. Raking gallery at rear on fluted cast-iron columns. Former side galleries removed. Later glass panelling at rear.

Dwarf wall (railings missing) to front area with two pairs of square ashlar piers to centre, two of which retain the decorative bases of cast-iron lamp standards. At the front corners, on large square bases, are two sculpted lions, by Thomas Milnes of London, representing War and Peace. At the rear of the wall are round section cast-iron railings with spear-head finials on a dwarf wall.

The institute cost £25,000 to build and contained a main hall to seat 800, a lecture room, two art rooms, a laboratory, a gymnasium, a library of 8,500 volumes and a reading room. A quarterly fee was charged and ranged downwards from 2s. for adult males.

The institute is set back from the road and the front area, along with that of the school opposite (q.v.),forms a gardened square. Part of Saltaire model village.

Listing NGR: SE1397137883

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 337542
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978)
Reynolds, J, The Great Paternalist, (1983)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.