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Description: | 2006.
Image shows the office block of the flax mill built for John Marshall & Company, flax spinners in Marshall Street, built between 1840 and 1843. It was designed by architect Ignatious Bonomi of Durham, who was said to have been influenced by his Egyptologist brother Joseph Bonomi. The Egyptain revival style chosen reflects on the importance of the flax industry to two very different cultures. It is a copy of the Temple of Horus at Edfu. The building seen here is on two storeys and has a central entrance with a winged solar disc above the doorway. The huge columns that flank either side of the entrance have lotus capitals. In its heyday John Marshalls' flax spinning company was the most successful in England. Now this Grade 1 listed building is at present owned by Reality, a mail order and distribution company. There are plans to develop Temple Works as a ?180 million cultural retail centre, and it would be part of the Holbeck Urban Village Scheme to regenerate the locality.
Photograph by James William Bell. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Holbeck Urban Village Marshalls' Mills Temple Works Marshall Street | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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