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Description: | 19th October 1989.
View of the County Arcade looking towards Vicar Lane. Major renovations are underway as part of the Victoria Quarter scheme. The County Arcade was originally designed by theatre architect, Frank Matcham for the Leeds Estates Company between 1898 and 1903, along with Queen Victoria Street and King Edward Street, which runs parallel to it. He also designed the Empire Theatre (now demolished) and the Cross Arcade. The new Victoria Quarter would encompass this Victorian/Edwardian area between Briggate and Vicar Lane and involve the restoration of the architecture and shop frontages under the supervision of conservation architect, Derek Latham. Here, the glass and wrought iron vaulted roof has been restored with fresh paintwork and the pomegranate frieze at balcony level has been accented in green and orange. At ground level the shop frontages have been stripped back in order to be returned to their former glory of mahogany frames, glass and gilded lettering. Concrete was used to fill the replicas of the original marble pilasters made of glass re-inforced plastic. They were then given an authentic looking paint treatment by craftsmen to simulate the marble. In 1991 the Victoria Quarter scheme won an award in the Leeds Awards for Architecture. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Victoria Quarter Matcham County Arcade | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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