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Designed by architect John Moxon.
An early view of the Coloured or Mixed Cloth Hall situated near the south end of Park Row. It was a huge and impressive building said at the time to rival any of its kind in Europe. It was the largest building in Georgian Leeds.
Originally built in 1756-8 the octagonally shaped domed building and the entrance wing were added at a later date, about 1780. The inner courtyard could accomodate 20,000 people. In 1889 Leeds Corporation paid a sum of ?66,000 for the hall in order to clear the site to make way for re-development. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | City Square Coloured Cloth Hall | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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