Where is this bench mark in Leeds?

PC - Dublin · Post by **PC - Dublin** » Wed 29 Feb, 2012 9:02 am

The plot thickens.....It is most unusual to have a benchmark on a step like that. Benchmarks are usually carved into a stone in a building. There is no sign of the horizontal part of the benchmark which is always above the tripod. The level of that horizontal mark is, in turn, referred to in OS maps with a level above datum. That mark has been weathered away (hence no benchmarks on steps). It begs the question, has this stone been taken from elsewhere (a building?) and used to form the step?PC

PC - Dublin · Post by **PC - Dublin** » Wed 07 Mar, 2012 10:40 pm

Wow, I think i killed this (excellent) thread "stone" dead! PC

jonleeds · Post by **jonleeds** » Wed 07 Mar, 2012 11:09 pm

I wouldnt worry about it, happens to me all the time cos I'm not part of this 'clique'!

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Wed 07 Mar, 2012 11:34 pm

PC - Dublin wrote: Wow, I think i killed this (excellent) thread "stone" dead! PC I like chance spottings of Bench Marks. The photo (taken January 30 2012) shows a Bench Mark (BM) on the Great George Street frontage of the old Leeds School Board building. I had passed it very often without noticing it. I think it was because I was trying not to walk onto some scaffolding that I was looking where I was going! On looking at an 1893 map in the Old-Maps UK website I noticed that there is a BM there, so it may still be the original one (though if it is it has not been eroded much at all). Oh, and don't worry all I shall not be posting photos of the small collection of BM photos that I have taken (some of which do not seem to be now recorded as being there)! One I have failed to photo well enough to see is an old BM on a wall next to a gate in on Creskeld Lane (Bramhope) but it is too indistinct to get a photo that shows it.

book · Post by **book** » Wed 07 Mar, 2012 11:39 pm

Not a lot of natural light down there either.

BarFly · Post by **BarFly** » Wed 07 Mar, 2012 11:40 pm

I've seen what looks like part of a bench mark on one of the cobbles in the centre courtyard of Westone (the old post office building on Wellington Street). I assume they took the stones from somewhere that was demolished nearby.