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Leeds's favourite building: Corn Exchange and Hinsley Hall
As one of Leeds's most famous landmarks, it's no surprise the Corn Exchange appears in our search for the city's favourite building – but we also see the first building outside Leeds city centre enter the race – Hinsley Hall in Headingley
The Corn Exchange was designed by Cuthbert Brodrick, the architect responsible for Leeds Town Hall, and completed in 1864.
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Although it no longer trades in corn, Leeds Corn Exchange is now just one of three Corn Exchanges in the country which still operates in its traditional capacity as a centre for trade.
It was re-developed as a shopping centre in the late 1980s, before becoming a food emporium at the heart of the city's Exchange Quarter following a 1.5m restoration last year.
The landmark was nominated by YEP reader Nina Morton-Brook, of Roundhay, who said: "It is an old building representing the heritage of Leeds. It is unique in shape and form and is beautiful whichever angle you look at it.
"It has had different uses over time, and manages to evolve along with the city. It is "alive", and has people and noise and laughter in it, not just the bricks and mortar."
Hinsley Hall was built on Headingley Lane in 1867 and was originally called the Headingley Wesleyan Methodist College, used for training Methodist missionaries who were then sent all over the world.
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During the Second World War, the college was home to a Women’s Royal Naval Service (Wrens) Writer School and was known as HMS Headingley, before being refurbished and renamed Hinsley Hall in 1998.
The building is now used by church groups and voluntary organisations, while the grounds include a graveyard for nuns from the Little Sisters of the Poor, a Catholic religious order based at nearby Mount St Joseph.
The venue was nominated by Headingley councillor James Monaghan, who said: “Hinsley Hall is a hidden gem in Headingley, a Victorian Gothic building whose domed clock tower peaks above the tree line and can be seen for miles around.
“Walking u p to the building from Headingley Lane, the noise from the road fades away and is replaced by birds singing in the mature tranquil gardens and for a while you can forget you are in the inner city of Leeds.”
The first six entries in our search for Leeds’ Favou rite Building were: the Town Hall, Grand Theatre, Civic Hall, Leeds Bridge House, Leeds Cathedral and Leeds Metropolitan University’s Faculty of Arts and Society, at Broadcasting Place.
On Friday, once we have revealed all the shortlisted buildings, a vote will be held in the paper and online at www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk.
Readers are asked to vote for their favourite, with the winner to be announced at the Leeds Architecture Awards on January 28.
As reported in the YEP, a panel of top architects including Castleford Bridge designer Renato Benedetti and Leeds City Council’s civic architect John Thorp toured some of the city’s landmarks as part of this year’s Leeds Architecture Awards.
The awards are jointly promoted by Leeds City Council and the Leeds Chamber Property Forum, in association with the Leeds Society of Architects, the Landscape Institute, the Institute of Historic Building Conservation and Leeds Civic Trust.
l Read tomorrow’s YEP or visit www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk to see the final two buildings in the shortlist.
suzanne.mctaggart@ypn.co.uk
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