The Grand Arcade is a shopping arcade located on
New Briggate in
Leeds
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,
West Yorkshire
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,
England
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, and a Grade II
listed building
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.
It was built by ''New Briggate Arcade Company Ltd'' in 1897, with ''Smith & Tweedal'' as architects, in
Renaissance
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style with
Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style)
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details.
Briggate
Briggate is a pedestrianised principal High Street, shopping street in Leeds city centre, England. Historically it was the main street, leading north from Leeds Bridge, and housed markets, merchant's houses and other business premises. It cont ...
owned by the Lupton family
The Lupton family in Yorkshire achieved prominence in ecclesiastical and academic circles in England in the Tudor era through the fame of Roger Lupton, provost of Eton College and chaplain to Henry VII and Henry VIII. By the Georgian era, the ...
who had also owned land in nearby North Street/Mabgate
Mabgate is an inner city area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England and the name of one of its streets. In Leeds City Council's ''Mabgate Development Framework'' (2007), "the area is bounded to the west by North Street; to the east by Macaulay Stre ...
and Merrion Street
Merrion Street (; ) is a major Georgian street on the southside of Dublin, Ireland, which runs along one side of Merrion Square. It is divided into Merrion Street Lower (north end), Merrion Square West and Merrion Street Upper (south end). It h ...
since the mid-18th century. Their Briggate land housed buildings including Lupton's Mill and its accompanying dam
A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface water or underground streams. Reservoirs created by dams not only suppress floods but also provide water for activities such as irrigation, human consumption, industrial use ...
which were demolished by 1897 to build the arcade.[ The remaining passage features an animated clock by ]Potts of Leeds
Potts of Leeds was a major British manufacturer of public clocks, based in Leeds, Yorkshire, England.
History
William Potts was born in December 1809 and was apprenticed to Samuel Thompson, a Darlington clockmaker. In 1833, at the age of 24, ...
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File:Grand Arcade New Briggate 18 April 2018 1.jpg, New Briggate frontage
File:Grand Arcade exterior 7 Sep 2017.jpg, Exterior on Vicar Lane
File:Grand Arcade Clock 18 April 2018 6.jpg, Potts clock
]
See also
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References
Discovering Leeds: The Arcades
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Shopping centres in Leeds
Shopping arcades in England
Shopping malls established in 1897
1897 establishments in England