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samples from 19 oak and one conifer timbers from the former west range of First White Cloth Hall. This analysis dated the timber as growing during the years AD 1366–1476, with the trees felled in the summer of AD 1476, with a likelihood that the timbers were part of a specific programme of felling
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in general, the first White Cloth Hall in Kirkgate has stood growing increasingly derelict for many years surrounded by scaffolding and safety hoardings. The Amusement Arcade in its eastern wing still operates but the rest of the building is getting close to state of collapse and is a
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and construction from a single woodland source relatively local to West Yorkshire. This date is earlier than had been expected based on the opening of First White Cloth Hall in the early eighteenth century.
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in 1710, built in order to entice traders away from Leeds. So the cloth hall for the sale of white (undyed) cloth was built on Kirkgate on a site provided by
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permission to restore the building. Rushbond Group are local property developers who bought the building over a year earlier. Work started in March 2019.
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Kirkgate, the oldest street in Leeds and site (to the right of the image shown, just out of shot) of the derelict 1st White Cloth Hall, in July 2014
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with £1,000 given by merchants and tradesmen. It was 'built upon Pillars and Arches in the form of an Exchange, with a Quadrangular Court within'.
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Originally named The White Cloth Hall, it was opened in 1711 as a response to the building of a covered cloth hall by the merchants of
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Former West Range, First White Cloth Hall, 100 Kirkgate, Leeds, West Yorkshire: Tree-ring Analysis of ex situ Timbers
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Despite its importance to the industrial heritage of Leeds and to the
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Arnold, Alison; Howard, Robert; Tyers, Cathy; Tyers, Ian (2019).
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First White Cloth Hall during reconstruction, September 2020
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53°47′44″N 1°32′26″W / 53.79548°N 1.540446°W / 53.79548; -1.540446



listed building
Kirkgate
Leeds
West Yorkshire
England
Wakefield
Lord Irvine
Temple Newsam
Industrial Revolution
health and safety
City Council
English Heritage
Rushbond Group
Historic England
dendrochronological
ex situ
2nd White Cloth Hall
3rd White Cloth Hall
4th White Cloth Hall
"Leeds First White Cloth Hall: public consulted on revamp"
BBC News Online
"Historic Leeds trading hub all set for a new lease of life"
Yorkshire Evening Post
Yorkshire Post Newspapers

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