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Great Hall of the University of Leeds

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style Great Hall incorporated the university's main library and cost around £22,000 to build which was raised partly by public appeal. It was originally used as the main University Library until the opening of the Brotherton Library in 1936 and other areas which opened in the same period such as the
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of the early Clothworkers buildings to the Portland stone of the Michael Sadler arts building to the steel and glass of the Marjorie and Arnold Ziff Building. Leeds therefore takes its place as one of the largest and most diverse
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The Great Hall was opened in October 1894 by the Duke and Duchess of York. The panorama seen from the door of the Great Hall takes in nearly 150 years of university-related building. From the
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The Great Hall is built on a site of the former Beech Grove Hall Estate, which was purchased in 1879 by the then Yorkshire College before the college joined the now defunct
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The Great Hall is still used to this day for meetings, examinations and graduation ceremonies and is one of a small cluster of buildings on the
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opened in 1936. The Great Hall is one illustration of the many diverse styles of buildings on the campus of the
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was previously utilised to house the university library collections before the
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This collegiate style used by Alfred Waterhouse helped to coin the term
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traits associated with a select number of civic universities in the
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School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
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School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science
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The Great Hall is the venue for graduation ceremonies
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University of Leeds
Gothic
Leeds
England
Coordinates
53°48′27″N 1°33′16″W / 53.807570°N 1.554547°W / 53.807570; -1.554547
Yorkshire College
Alfred Waterhouse R.A.
grade II listed
Gothic Revival
University of Leeds
West Yorkshire
England
undercroft
Brotherton Library
University of Leeds
red brick university

Victoria University
Universities of Manchester
Liverpool
architect
Alfred Waterhouse R.A
Natural History Museum
London
Gothic Collegiate
red brick university
Edgar Allison Peers
University of Liverpool

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