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Description: | 19th October 1989.
View of Queen Victoria Street looking towards Vicar Lane. Scaffolding is in place on both sides of the street to facilitate the consruction of the steel glazed roof which can be seen in the background. This was designed to cover the entirety of Queen Victoria Street, from Briggate to Vicar Lane. It was then to be lined in coloured stained glass designed by architectural architect, Brian Clarke. This was the largest secular commission for stained glass ever known at 747 square metres. It forms the centre piece of the Victoria Quarter, complementing the traditional late Victorian/early Edwardian architecture designed by theatre architect Frank Matcham for the Leeds Estates Company. Beneath the roof canopy in the background there is a glimpse of March the tailors at number 64 Vicar Lane. On the right Sutcliffes Sport Ltd. is visible at 23 Queen Victoria Street. It is a large shop with a front entrance through into King Edward Street at numbers 17 to 19. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Victoria Quarter Briggate Queen Victoria Street Vicar Lane Frank Matcham | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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