Where is this bench mark in Leeds?

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Fri 16 Mar, 2012 10:40 pm

The photo (taken today, March 16 2012) is a close-up of a bench mark on a significant building in the centre of Leeds. As a possible clue to its location the stone can be seen to be a coarse-grained sandstone with quartz pieces. It's also on a building that you may have all passed by many times but never spotted the bench mark, just as I have until recently. I fear I may have given away too many clues!

Phill_dvsn · Post by **Phill_dvsn** » Fri 16 Mar, 2012 11:17 pm

St Annes Cathedral?http://g.co/maps/ag4v7

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Fri 16 Mar, 2012 11:27 pm

Phill_dvsn wrote: St Annes Cathedral?http://g.co/maps/ag4v7 Wow Phill you are wrong! Admittedly one bench mark can look like others but this particular one is not at St Annes Cathedral. I shall have to have a look at some stage to see if there is at least one bench mark there. I spotted 2 today on the nearby Rossington Street, one just off Cookridge Street (on the museum) and the other just off Woodhouse Lane. I photographed them for my still small collection of bench marks.

jim · Post by **jim** » Sat 17 Mar, 2012 12:23 am

Oxford place side of Town Hall?

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Sat 17 Mar, 2012 12:50 am

jim wrote: Oxford place side of Town Hall? Sorry Jim but it's not there.As a further clue the building has a connection (but not physically, as far as I know!) with both the Town Hall and the Leeds Institute (now the museum).

Brunel · Post by **Brunel** » Sat 17 Mar, 2012 1:19 am

Corn Ex.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Sat 17 Mar, 2012 2:18 am

Brunel wrote: Corn Ex. Well done Brunel. The bench mark can be seen on the directly facing pillar in this photo that I took yesterday (March 16 2012).The connection to the Town Hall and the Leeds Institute is Cuthbert Brodrick who was the architect of those and the Corn Exchange.I've now looked at the 1891 1:500 map in the Old-Maps UK website and a bench mark is there in that map. I wonder if it is the original one but it does seem too sharply defined and I would have expected an original one to be more eroded by now.