Leeds Corn Exchange
| The Corn Exchange | |
|
Yorkshire | |
|---|---|
 Leeds Corn Exchange | |
| Type: | Shopping centre |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SE30383339 |
| Location: | 53°47’45"N, 1°32’25"W |
| City: | Leeds |
| History | |
| Built 1864 | |
| By: | Cuthbert Brodrick |
| Shopping centre | |
| Victorian | |
| Information | |
| Website: | leedscornexchange.co.uk |
The Leeds Corn Exchange is a Victorian building in Leeds, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, which was completed in 1863. It is a grade I listed building.[1]
History
The Corn Exchange was designed by Cuthbert Brodrick, a Hull architect best known for Leeds Town Hall, and was built between 1861 and 1863.[1] The dome design was based on that of the Bourse de commerce of Paris by François-Joseph Bélanger and François Brunet, completed in 1811.[2] In the late 1980s Speciality Shops plc restored it and converted it into a retail facility.[3]
After a further restoration in 2007, the Corn Exchange re-opened in November 2008 as a boutique shopping centre for independent retailers. The 13,200-square foot ground level was occupied by Piazza by Anthony until its sudden closure in June 2013.[4]
In 2017 the Corn Exchange was acquired by property company Rushbond.[5]
The Corn Exchange contains about 30 independent retailers and food outlets.[6] It is described as "one of only three remaining Corn Exchanges still functioning as a centre for trade in Britain", albeit no longer functioning as a corn exchange.[5]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Leeds Corn Exchange) |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 National Heritage List 1255771: Corn Exchange
- ↑ "Bourse de Commerce" (in French). Structurae. http://structurae.info/ouvrages/bourse-de-commerce. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
- ↑ "Leeds Corn Exchange’s 150 years of changing fortunes". Yorkshire Evening Post. 29 April 2013. https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/people/leeds-corn-exchange-s-150-years-of-changing-fortunes-1-5626503. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
- ↑ Bowyer, Laura (22 June 2013). "Dining dismay after acclaimed Leeds restaurants shut". The Yorkshire Evening Post (Leeds). http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/top-stories/dining-dismay-after-acclaimed-leeds-restaurants-shut-1-5790336. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "New owners for Leeds Corn Exchange". Business Up North. 3 March 2017. https://www.businessupnorth.co.uk/new-owners-leeds-corn-exchange/. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
- ↑ "The Corn Exchange". https://www.visitleeds.co.uk/thedms.aspx?dms=3&venue=2193807. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
- Wrathmell, Susan; Minnis, John (2005). "Corn Exchange". Leeds. Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides. Yale UP. pp. 68-71. ISBN 9780300107364. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XHJaiPxJ_6QC&lpg=PP1&dq=leeds%20corn%20exchange%20architecture&pg=PA68#v=onepage&q=leeds%20corn%20exchange%20architecture&f=false.