2018

SE3033 : Crispin House, North Street, detail

taken 6 years ago, near to Leeds, England

Crispin House, North Street, detail
Crispin House, North Street, detail
Panel at the top of the 1926 extension along New York Road. See Link .
Architectural terracotta and faience in Leeds

The terms terracotta and faience can be used more or less interchangeably for the structural and decorative ceramic material used extensively on buildings from about 1880 to the 1930s. Faience is more generally applied to the type which has high glaze, often multicoloured, as featured for example on The Grand Arcade, and The Three Legs pub.

The material is similar to the denser bricks developed in the 19th century and has a generally impermeable surface compared with softer stones and common bricks. Compared with stone, where every stone had to be individually carved (even when done mechanically), terracotta decoration could be produced in numbers from a single mould.

The presence of large numbers of buildings using the material in Leeds is connected with the fact that one of the major British manufacturers was the Burmantofts pottery and brickworks in the eastern suburbs of the City. Around 1900 Burmantoft developed a very pale version, in imitation of white marble, which was given the trade name 'Marmo'. As well as being used for buildings in the more 'Rococo' style of the early 1900s (e.g. Scottish Union and National Insurance Company building on Park Row) it was much favoured in the Art Deco period for major cinema and shop frontages.


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Geographical Context: Historic sites and artefacts Housing, Dwellings Business, Retail, Services City, Town centre Housing: Converted Industrial Building Former: Textile Mill Period: Early 20th Century Date: 1926 Building Material: Brick and Terracotta other tags: Datestone Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Street [1009] Other Photos: · Crispin House, North Street, New York Road facade Title Clusters: · Crispin House, North Street, detail [2] ·
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Alan Murray-Rust   (more nearby)
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Thursday, 12 April, 2018   (more nearby)
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Wednesday, 18 April, 2018
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OSGB36: geotagged! SE 3058 3392 [10m precision]
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OSGB36: geotagged! SE 3046 3392
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