John Wormald Appleyard (10 September 1831 – 14 January 1894) (active 1851–1893) was a British sculptor and monumental mason based in
Leeds
Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest settlement in Yorkshire and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough, which is the second most populous district in the United Kingdom. It is built aro ...
,
West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a Metropolitan counties of England, metropolitan and Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It borders North Yorkshire to the north and east, South Yorkshire and De ...
, England.
He was sixteen years old when his apprenticeship as a stone carver was curtailed due to the death of his grandfather who was training him. He was versatile enough to turn his hand to
wood carving
Wood carving (or woodcarving) is a form of woodworking by means of a cutting tool (knife) in one hand or a chisel by two hands or with one hand on a chisel and one hand on a mallet, resulting in a wooden figure or figurine, or in the sculpture, ...
,
decorative ceiling work,
stained glass
Stained glass refers to coloured glass as a material or art and architectural works created from it. Although it is traditionally made in flat panels and used as windows, the creations of modern stained glass artists also include three-dimensio ...
and
marble sculpture
Marble has been the preferred material for stone monumental sculpture since ancient times, with several advantages over its more common geological "parent" limestone, in particular the ability to absorb light a small distance into the surface b ...
besides stone carving, so that from around the age of twenty-one years he was able to maintain a stoneyard and studio in Cookridge Street, Leeds, at least until 1891. He was generally known during his lifetime as a
monumental mason
Monumental masonry (also known as memorial masonry) is a kind of stonemasonry focused on the creation, installation and repairs of headstones (also known as gravestones and tombstones) and other memorials.
Cultural significance
In Christian cu ...
.
He is mainly known today in Leeds for his wooden faux-
Jacquemart figures of
Robin Hood
Robin Hood is a legendary noble outlaw, heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature, theatre, and cinema. According to legend, he was a highly skilled archer and swordsman. In some versions o ...
,
Friar Tuck
Friar Tuck is one of the Merry Men, the band of heroic outlaws in the folklore of Robin Hood.
History
The figure of the jovial friar was common in the May Games festivals of England and Scotland during the 15th to 17th centuries. He appears ...
,
Richard the Lionheart
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'st ...
and the
swineherd
A swineherd is a person who raises and herds pigs as livestock.
Swineherds in literature
* In the New Testament are mentioned shepherd of pigs, mentioned in the Pig (Gadarene) the story shows Jesus exorcising a demon or demons from a man a ...
Gurth, which appear to strike the hours on the ''
Ivanhoe
''Ivanhoe: A Romance'' ( ) by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in December 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. It marked a shift away from Scott's prior practice of setting stories in Scotland and in the more ...
'' clock at one end of Thornton's Arcade in
Briggate
Briggate is a pedestrianised principal shopping street in Leeds city centre, England. Historically it was the main street, leading north from Leeds Bridge, and housed markets, merchant's houses and other business premises. It contains many h ...
. He is also known for his figure of ''
Old Father Time
Father Time is a personification of time, in particular the progression of history and the approach of death. In recent centuries, he is usually depicted as an elderly bearded man, sometimes with wings, dressed in a robe and carrying a scythe ...
'' on the Tempus Fugit clock on the
Time Ball Buildings, Leeds.
Background
Appleyard's maternal grandparents, both born in Yorkshire, were Abraham Wormald,
a stone mason of Spring Gardens, Drighlington, and his wife Elizabeth.
His father was Jabez Appleyard,
a
size
Size in general is the Magnitude (mathematics), magnitude or dimensions of a thing. More specifically, ''geometrical size'' (or ''spatial size'') can refer to three geometrical measures: length, area, or volume. Length can be generalized ...
-boiler for the preparation of wool,
and his mother was Jane Wormald..
Jabez and Jane had nine children. John, the eldest, was born on 10 September 1831 at School Close,
Leeds
Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest settlement in Yorkshire and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough, which is the second most populous district in the United Kingdom. It is built aro ...
, and baptised on 9 October 1831 at St Peter's, Leeds.
The family moved to
Drighlington
Drighlington is a village and civil parish in the City of Leeds metropolitan district, West Yorkshire, England. Historic counties of England, Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the village lies 5 miles (9 km) south-west of ...
, then Water Lane in
Farsley
Farsley is a village in the City of Leeds, Leeds district, in West Yorkshire, England, west of Leeds city centre and east of Bradford near Pudsey. Before 1974, Farsley was part of the Municipal Borough of Pudsey, Borough of Pudsey. Before 193 ...
.
By 1851, after completing his apprenticeship with his grandfather, he moved to 4 Hirst Square off St James Street, Leeds, on the site of the present
Leeds Civic Hall
Leeds Civic Hall is a municipal building located in the Leeds city centre#Civic-quarter, civic quarter of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It replaced Leeds Town Hall as the administrative centre in 1933. The Civic Hall houses Leeds City Council ...
, and lived there for the rest of his life. On 20 October 1853 he married the widow Mrs Elizabeth "Eliza" Whiteley by licence at Leeds Parish Church.
Appleyard died on 14 January 1894 without issue, The funeral procession left 4 Hirst Square on 17 January at 2.30 pm,
and he was buried at
Burmantofts
Burmantofts is an area of 1960s high-rise housing blocks in inner-city east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England adjacent to the city centre and St. James's Hospital. It is a racially diverse area, with sizable Afro-Caribbean and Irish communities, b ...
Cemetery in grave no.12542.
He was sufficiently wealthy to bequeath £100 () to
Leeds General Infirmary
Leeds General Infirmary, also known as the LGI, is a large teaching hospital based in the centre of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, and is part of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Its previous name The General Infirmary at Leeds is still ...
, and () to his relative Isaac Appleyard, a
coal merchant
A coal merchant is the term used in the UK and other countries for a trader who sells coal and often delivers it to households. Coal merchants were once a major class of local business, but have declined in importance in many parts of the developed ...
. His effects, consisting of "china, books, pictures, and other effects" were auctioned at Hepper & Sons, Leeds, on 3 February 1894.
He was the uncle of the artist
Fred Appleyard
Fred Appleyard (1874 – 1963) was a British artist known for his landscape paintings, portraits, classical subjects and allegorical compositions. He had 41 works exhibited during his lifetime by the Royal Academy and painted the mural '' ...
, via Appleyard's brother Isaac.
Thorntons Arcade 9 Feb 2019 (27).JPG, John Wormald Appleyard by Benjamin Payler, 1878 (photographed from below)
Jane Appleyard (1a x 10).jpg, Jane Appleyard, 1860s
Appleyard gravestone (2a).jpg, ''Head of Christ'' on family gravestone, 1863, probably carved by J.W. Appleyard
Gravestone of John Wormald Appleyard (1).JPG, Grave of John Wormald Appleyard, died 1894
Career
In 1841, by the time he was nine years old, Appleyard was already
apprenticed
Apprenticeship is a system for training a potential new practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study. Apprenticeships may also enable practitioners to gain a license to practice in a regulate ...
in Drighlington to his maternal grandfather Abraham Wormald, a
stone mason
In geology, rock (or stone) is any naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of minerals or mineraloid matter. It is categorized by the minerals included, its chemical composition, and the way in which it is formed. Rocks form the Earth's ...
.
At this yard he was permitted to concentrate on
carving
Carving is the act of using tools to shape something from a material by scraping away portions of that material. The technique can be applied to any material that is solid enough to hold a form even when pieces have been removed from it, and y ...
. His grandfather's death in 1847 curtailed his apprenticeship at the age of 16, and he was back with his parents in Farsley by 1851, when he was 19 years old and already calling himself a "stone carver and cutter." He plied his trade as a "sculptor, stone and marble mason and monumental mason" until at least 1891,
although he tended to call himself simply a stone carver or sculptor.
In 1892 Appleyard appeared as a witness, on behalf of architect Edward William Lockwood (1856–1934) of
Huddersfield
Huddersfield is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Kirklees district. The town is in the foothills of the Pennines. The River Holme's confl ...
, in a Court case brought by sculptor Samuel Auty of
Lindley for payment for some carving work on the factory of dry salters Clayton, Holroyd & Co., Longroyd Lane, off Manchester Road,
Longroyd Bridge,
Huddersfield
Huddersfield is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It is the administrative centre and largest settlement in the Kirklees district. The town is in the foothills of the Pennines. The River Holme's confl ...
, built 1890–1891 (now demolished).
A comment from this case confirms that stones for architectural carving were roughed out by masons at ground level, and that the carving was completed when the stones were in situ on the building: "The stone for the gargoyles
as/nowiki> roughened into shape," then later "he could not work in such an exposed position as that in which the stone had in the meantime been placed, but that when the weather was better he would finish the work." Auty did not finish it, and Appleyard completed the six crocket
A crocket (or croquet) is a small, independent decorative element common in Gothic architecture. The name derives from the diminutive of the Old French ''croc'', meaning "hook", due to the resemblance of a crocket to a bishop's Shepherd's crook, ...
s and two gargoyle
In architecture, and specifically Gothic architecture, a gargoyle () is a carved or formed Grotesque (architecture), grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building, thereby preventing it from ...
s. Both sculptors were paid for their work.
The Beckett Street Cemetery record keeper knew him as a monumental mason. By 1871 he had a workshop producing sculpture and designs in 16–18 Cookridge Street, Leeds, next door to architect George Corson
George Corson (1829–1910) was a Scottish architect active in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
Background
Corson was born in Dumfries, where he was articled to Walter Newall before moving to Leeds in 1849 to work with his brother William Reid ...
, and he remained there as a monumental mason until at least 1891. Appleyard was also in his later years a teacher of cabinet-making at the Leeds Institute. He was a leading member of Leeds Church Institute.
Cookridge Street looking North - geograph.org.uk - 1729249.jpg, Cookridge Street, Leeds, in 2010. On the left are nos.19–21, so Appleyard's studio at nos.16–18 was probably on the site of The Light, right
Hirst Square Leeds 1913.jpg, Hirst Square, Leeds, in 1913. This is where Appleyard lived, at number 4
Millennium Square, Leeds (27th May 2010).jpg, Leeds Civic Hall
Leeds Civic Hall is a municipal building located in the Leeds city centre#Civic-quarter, civic quarter of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It replaced Leeds Town Hall as the administrative centre in 1933. The Civic Hall houses Leeds City Council ...
was built in 1933 on the site of Appleyard's home, 4 Hirst Square
Works
Exhibitions, 1875–1891
The whereabouts of the following exhibits is unknown. At the Leeds Mechanics' Institution, Yorkshire Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures in 1875 Appleyard exhibited "several marble sculptures." At the Yorkshire Fine Art Society, Autumn Exhibition, 1880, he showed ''Sabrina''. In 1888 he exhibited unknown works alongside Matthew Taylor at a show of international works of art, in the central court, at the Leeds Fine Art Gallery exhibition. In 1889 he entered a ''Medallion Portrait of Lady Jane Grey'' at the Leeds City Art Gallery
Leeds Art Gallery in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, is a gallery, part of the Leeds Museums & Galleries group, whose collection of 20th-century British Art was designated by the British government in 1997 as a collection "of national importance ...
, The Spring Exhibition. His ''The Elements'' was exhibited at the same spring exhibition in 1890, and again in spring 1891. Other exhibited pieces were ''Head of Christ'', ''Neptune'', ''Portrait'', ''Medallion Portrait of Mozart'' and ''Head of Mozart 1880''.
''Old Father Time'' figure, Time Ball Buildings, Leeds, after 1872
This is part of a Grade II* listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Hi ...
. Appleyard executed the sculpture on top of Dyson's cantilevered Tempus Fugit 'drum' clock, which is suspended from the front of the Time Ball Buildings, Leeds. The figure of Chronos
Chronos (; ; , Modern Greek: ), also spelled Chronus, is a personification of time in Greek mythology, who is also discussed in pre-Socratic philosophy and later literature.
Chronos is frequently confused with, or perhaps consciously identified ...
or Old Father Time
Father Time is a personification of time, in particular the progression of history and the approach of death. In recent centuries, he is usually depicted as an elderly bearded man, sometimes with wings, dressed in a robe and carrying a scythe ...
above the clock was created by Appleyard after Dyson bought 24 Briggate to add to the existing premises made from amalgamating 25 and 26 Briggate. (The date 1865 refers to the founding of Dyson's business.) When Susan Wrathmell wrote the ''Pevsner Guide to Leeds'', the Old Father Time figure was gilded.
Old Father Time Tempus Fugit (9a).jpg, Close-up
Old Father Time Tempus Fugit (11).JPG, ''Old Father Time'', 1872
Old Father Time Tempus Fugit (1).JPG, Silhouette
''Head of Inigo Jones'', c.1876
Appleyard carved the head of Inigo Jones
Inigo Jones (15 July 1573 – 21 June 1652) was an English architect who was the first significant Architecture of England, architect in England in the early modern era and the first to employ Vitruvius, Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmet ...
and some decorative panels for a wooden plaque dedicated to the Leeds Architectural Association (now West Yorkshire Society of Architects or WYSA), which was founded by George Corson
George Corson (1829–1910) was a Scottish architect active in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
Background
Corson was born in Dumfries, where he was articled to Walter Newall before moving to Leeds in 1849 to work with his brother William Reid ...
and others on 14 December 1876, in the Philosophical Hall, Leeds. The head was inspired by the Van Dyck
Sir Anthony van Dyck (; ; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy.
The seventh child of Frans van Dyck, a wealt ...
drawing of Inigo Jones.
Inigo Jones by JW Appleyard (1a).JPG, ''WYSA plaque'', c.1876
Inigo Jones by JW Appleyard (16).JPG, ''Head of Inigo Jones'' c.1876
Inigo Jones by Appleyard (2).JPG, ''Head of Inigo Jones'', c.1876
Anthony van Dyck - Portrait of Inigo Jones - cropped.jpg, Appleyard's inspiration: ''Inigo Jones'' by Anthony van Dyck
Sir Anthony van Dyck (; ; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque painting, Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy.
The seventh child of ...
, 1630s
Inigo Jones by JW Appleyard (8a).JPG, ''Gryphon'' on WYSA plaque, c.1876
St Bartholomew's Church, Armley, Leeds, 1872–1877
St Bartholomew's, Armley
Armley is a district in the west of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It starts less than from Leeds city centre. Like much of Leeds, Armley grew in the Industrial Revolution and had several mills, one of which now houses the Leeds Industrial ...
, Leeds
Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest settlement in Yorkshire and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough, which is the second most populous district in the United Kingdom. It is built aro ...
, was founded in 1872, and consecrated in 1877. The Caen stone
Caen stone () is a light creamy-yellow Jurassic limestone quarried in north-western France near the city of Caen. The limestone is a fine grained oolitic limestone formed in shallow water lagoons in the Bathonian Age about 167 million years ...
reredos
A reredos ( , , ) is a large altarpiece, a screen, or decoration placed behind the altar in a Church (building), church. It often includes religious images.
The term ''reredos'' may also be used for similar structures, if elaborate, in secular a ...
of this church erected in 1877 has alabaster
Alabaster is a mineral and a soft Rock (geology), rock used for carvings and as a source of plaster powder. Archaeologists, geologists, and the stone industry have different definitions for the word ''alabaster''. In archaeology, the term ''alab ...
carvings, representing the Magi
Magi (), or magus (), is the term for priests in Zoroastrianism and earlier Iranian religions. The earliest known use of the word ''magi'' is in the trilingual inscription written by Darius the Great, known as the Behistun Inscription. Old Per ...
, crucifixion
Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the condemned is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross, beam or stake and left to hang until eventual death. It was used as a punishment by the Achaemenid Empire, Persians, Ancient Carthag ...
and Old Testament
The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Isr ...
figures. Appleyard was present at the consecration
Sacred describes something that is dedicated or set apart for the service or worship of a deity; is considered worthy of spiritual respect or devotion; or inspires awe or reverence among believers. The property is often ascribed to objects ( ...
on 24 August 1877, listed alongside the architects Henry Walker and Joseph Athron who designed the building and reredos. Since no other stone carver is credited for this work, it is reasonable to suppose that it could be the work of Appleyard.
The pulpit is of alabaster and marble, designed by architect Thomas Armfield after the pulpit at the shrine of Sebaldus
Sebaldus (or Sebald) was an Anglo-Saxon missionary to Germania, Germany in the 9th or 10th century. He settled down as a hermit in the , of which city he is the patron saint.
Legends
Almost all details of the life of Sebaldus are uncertain, b ...
in St. Sebaldus Church, Nuremberg
St. Sebaldus Church (''St. Sebald'', ''Sebalduskirche'') is a Medieval era, medieval church (building), church in Nuremberg, Germany. Along with Frauenkirche, Nuremberg, Frauenkirche (Our Lady's Church) and St. Lorenz, Nuremberg, St. Lorenz, it i ...
. It was carved originally by Mawer and Ingle
Mawer and Ingle was a company of architectural sculptors, based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, between 1860 and 1871. It comprised cousins Charles Mawer (born 1839) and William Ingle (1828–1870), and Catherine Mawer (1804–1877) who was m ...
for the former St Bartholomew's Church, on the occasion of its 1861 restoration, then moved together with the font to the new building after the consecration.
Baptist Chapel, Normanton, 1877–1878
The foundation stone of this chapel was laid in August 1877. It was opened on the High Street of Normanton, West Yorkshire
Normanton is a town in the civil parish of Normanton and Altofts, in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. It is north-east of Wakefield and south-west of Castleford. The civil parish extends west and north to the River Calder, W ...
on 7 May 1878. It was designed at a cost of £3,000 () by J.P. Kay of Leeds "after the classic order of architecture", and presented a "bold and substantial appearance". Appleyard was credited as carver. The ''Wakefield Free Press'' reported that, "the workmanship and finish throughout reflect great credit on the skill and taste of the gentlemen who took part in erecting this handsome edifice". The chapel has "a carved medallion, bearing the inscription and date". The building suffered a "devastating fire" in 2009, and was restored by William Birch.
Decorative ceilings, Grand Theatre, Leeds, 1877–1878
The Grand Theatre in Upper Briggate, Leeds
Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest settlement in Yorkshire and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough, which is the second most populous district in the United Kingdom. It is built aro ...
, is a Grade II* listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Hi ...
, designed by George Corson and his chief assistant James Robinson Watson, and opened in November 1878, having taken "thirteen months to build." It originally consisted of a theatre and assembly rooms
In Great Britain and Ireland, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries, assembly rooms were gathering places for members of the higher social classes open to members of both sexes. At that time most entertaining was done at home and there wer ...
, with shops in between. The interiors have been much changed, especially in the 1930s. Appleyard carried out ceiling work inside this combination building, contracted by J. Pollard of Bond Street. The auditorium has a "ribbed and domed ceiling with central chandelier and plaster pendentives," and the former assembly room (now the Opera North
Opera North is an English opera company based in Leeds. The company's home theatre is the Leeds Grand Theatre, but it also presents regular seasons in several other cities, at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, the Lowry Centre, Salford Quays a ...
rehearsal room) has a "segmental-arched ceiling with ribs and panels decorated with reliefs of fruit and flowers." Describing the auditorium in 1878, '' The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer'' said: "The roof, lighted by one great chandelier, presents a very rich appearance." "The prevailing colour of the decorations (was) crimson and gold."
Grand Theatre (6a).jpg, Part of auditorium ''ceiling of Grand Theatre'', 1878
Ivanhoe Clock, Thornton's Arcade, Leeds, 1877–1878
Thornton's Arcade is a Grade II listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Hi ...
, designed by George Smith, and located between Lands Lane and Briggate in Leeds, West Yorkshire. It was in the planning stage in 1875, approved in 1877 and completed in 1878. The Ivanhoe Clock is a large, automated
Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, mainly by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machine ...
, public timepiece manufactured by Potts of Leeds
Potts of Leeds was a major British manufacturer of public clocks, based in Leeds, Yorkshire, England.
History
William Potts was born in December 1809 and was apprenticed to Samuel Thompson, a Darlington clockmaker. In 1833, at the age of 2 ...
between 1877 and 1878 to strike on the hour and each quarter. The figures were inspired by Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European literature, European and Scottish literature, notably the novels ''Ivanhoe'' (18 ...
's ''Ivanhoe
''Ivanhoe: A Romance'' ( ) by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in December 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. It marked a shift away from Scott's prior practice of setting stories in Scotland and in the more ...
'' of 1819. Appleyard created the four life-sized, wooden, faux- Jacquemart figures of Richard I
Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199), known as Richard the Lionheart or Richard Cœur de Lion () because of his reputation as a great military leader and warrior, was King of England from 1189 until his death in 1199. He also ru ...
, Friar Tuck
Friar Tuck is one of the Merry Men, the band of heroic outlaws in the folklore of Robin Hood.
History
The figure of the jovial friar was common in the May Games festivals of England and Scotland during the 15th to 17th centuries. He appears ...
, Robin Hood
Robin Hood is a legendary noble outlaw, heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature, theatre, and cinema. According to legend, he was a highly skilled archer and swordsman. In some versions o ...
and the swineherd
A swineherd is a person who raises and herds pigs as livestock.
Swineherds in literature
* In the New Testament are mentioned shepherd of pigs, mentioned in the Pig (Gadarene) the story shows Jesus exorcising a demon or demons from a man a ...
Gurth. The figures appear to strike the bells, which are actually hit by hammers hidden behind the display. The Arcade's founder Charles Thornton already owned the music hall
Music hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment that was most popular from the early Victorian era, beginning around 1850, through the World War I, Great War. It faded away after 1918 as the halls rebranded their entertainment as Varie ...
which later became the City Varieties, so these pantomime
Pantomime (; informally panto) is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment, generally combining gender-crossing actors and topical humour with a story more or less based on a well-known fairy tale, fable or ...
figures are in keeping with his showmanship. The clock was once manually wound, but was automated in 1955, and was restored in 1997.
The wooden female head, inside and above the door opposite the clock, is a likeness of Gainsborough's ''Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait may be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better re ...
''. It is likely to be the work of Appleyard because it is in the same theatrical style as the clock figures, it is worked in the same materials, and is also painted. It was placed here as a topical subject because Gainsborough's portrait painting was stolen in 1877 while the arcade was under construction.
Thorntons Arcade 9 Feb 2019 (10c).jpg, ''Richard the Lionheart'', 1878
Thorntons Arcade 9 Feb 2019 (10).JPG, The four ''Jacquemart figures'', 1878
Thorntons Arcade 9 Feb 2019 (10d).jpg, The swineherd, ''Gurth'', 1878
Thorntons Arcade 9 Feb 2019 (25).JPG, ''Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire'', 1878
Barran's Fountain, Roundhay Park, Leeds, 1882
This is a Grade II listed building
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, designed by Thomas Ambler (1838–1920) in Park Springs stone. It is a rotunda
A rotunda () is any roofed building with a circular ground plan, and sometimes covered by a dome. It may also refer to a round room within a building (an example being the one below the dome of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.). ...
-shaped drinking fountain in Roundhay Park
Roundhay Park in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, is a large urban park situated on the north-east edge of the city, bordered by the suburb of Roundhay to the west, Oakwood, Leeds, Oakwood to the south and the A6120 road, A6120 outer ring road t ...
, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Appleyard executed the carving on this domed fountain, which was donated by the founder of Roundhay Park, Sir John Barran. The fountain was opened for public use on Monday 3 April 1882. Around the inside of the dome is the inscription: "Presented to the Leeds Corporation by John Barran, M.P., April 3rd 1882."
As a drinking fountain, the structure is no longer functional. It originally had "ornate bronze
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals (such as phosphorus) or metalloid ...
vases through which the water issues, to the taps, the drinking cups, and their connections, all being very pretty. The minute detail with which everything is executed reflects creditably on all concerned." The four-foot hole in the dome was " covered with plate glass 3/4 of an inch thick, painted with a rosette in the centre and surrounded by guilloché
Guilloché (), or guilloche (), is a decorative technique in which a very precise, intricate and repetitive pattern is mechanically engraved into an underlying material via engine turning, which uses a machine of the same name. Engine turning m ...
ornament." It still has the "red granite basins – moulded, cut and polished," and "each basin (was originally) supplied by a bronze vase. Those on the outside (had) three taps and those on the inside (had) two taps, of bronze, with sea-horse heads, and electro-silver plated ... Surrounding the basins (were) iron gratings, to receive any overflow." The original bronze fittings were designed by Ambler and made by Warner & Sons of London, and the stained glass roof insert (now gone) was made by the St Helen's Company.
Barrans fountain (4).JPG, ''Barran's Fountain'', 1882
Barrans fountain (18b).jpg, ''Corinthian capital'', 1882
Barrans fountain (22).JPG, ''Barran's Fountain'', 1882
Barrans fountain (14).JPG, ''Shell splashback'', 1882
Central Library interior, Leeds, 1878–1884
Leeds Central Library is a listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Hi ...
, designed as municipal buildings by George Corson
George Corson (1829–1910) was a Scottish architect active in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
Background
Corson was born in Dumfries, where he was articled to Walter Newall before moving to Leeds in 1849 to work with his brother William Reid ...
to complement the Town Hall
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. The foundation stone was laid in 1878, and the building was completed in April 1884. Appleyard led the team of stone carvers who worked on the interior staircases, pillars and arches (except for the alabaster
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entrance-hall arch, carved by Farmer & Brindley
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).[ This citation credits Appleyard for the interior carving] His name and Corson's are engraved in a ratepayers' ledger which features on a carved roundel
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"high on the wall" of the entrance hall, between the staircases: on the left-hand page "1883 Appleyard fecit", and on the right, "G. Corson architect". The other stone carvers of the interior staircases and arches have not been identified, and the extent of Appleyard's contribution to the artwork is unknown.
Leeds Central Library 21 February 2019 (109).jpg, ''Carved capital'' on staircase, 1884
Leeds City Library (15).JPG, ''Lion dogs'', 1884
Leeds City Library (6).JPG, ''Lion couchant'', 1884
Leeds Central Library 21 February 2019 (147).JPG, ''Portrait of George Corson
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'' on a capital, 1884
Leeds Central Library 21 February 2019 (77c).JPG, The credit-roundel by Appleyard, 1883
Leeds Central Library 21 February 2019 (77d).jpg, Close-up of the ledger (rotated), 1883
Leeds Fine Art Gallery, Leeds, 1886–1888
This is a listed building
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. It was designed at a cost of £9,000 by William Henry Thorp
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(1852–1944) of Albion Street, Leeds, and opened by Archibald Witham Scarr (1827–1904), Mayor of Leeds
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, and Hubert von Herkomer
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on Wednesday 3 October 1888. Its ground floor gallery was called the Queen's Room (re-named as of 2019 the Ziff Gallery): A beautiful rectangular apartment with arches crossing its corners, which give the roof an octagonal character, with coved ceiling and lantern
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, and with clerestory
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lights through arcades, with classic
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moulded pilaster
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s; it has a fine frieze
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designed by Mr Thorp, and carried out by Mr J.W. Appleyard, with panels bearing the names of Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough
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, and Turner
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. past Grand Masters of the English School of Painting
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.
The frieze and ceiling was painted ivory white, and the walls were maroon "of dead texture" to show off the artworks and frames. Although the room is still there, the frieze is lost, or possibly hidden.
Leeds City Art Gallery 1888 (2a).jpg, ''Frieze'', 1888, in Queen's Room (now missing)
Queens Room Leeds City Art Gallery 1911a.jpg, The frieze in 1911
Newton Park Union Church, Chapeltown/Potternewton, 1887–1889
Newton Park Union Church is a Grade II listed building
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. It was designed at a cost of £6,200 "in the fourteenth century decorated Gothic
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style" for the newly joined Congregationalists
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and Baptists
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by Archibald Neill (1856–1933), of East Parade, Leeds, and opened on Wednesday 3 April 1889. The new church was built on the eastern side on the original Lupton family's Congregational Chapel, built in 1870. The new church had a 70-foot tower with a clock by Pearce & Sons; on each angle was a turret with an octagonal crocketed pinnacle. It had an octagonal nave
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with arcading
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and clerestory
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. "The pulpit
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and communion rails, of oak, are beautifully carved." J. W. Appleyard was credited as one of the contractors, but it is not known whether he carved wood or stone here. At some point the clock was replaced by one by Potts of Leeds
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William Potts was born in December 1809 and was apprenticed to Samuel Thompson, a Darlington clockmaker. In 1833, at the age of 2 ...
, which had originally been installed in Wellington Station, Leeds, in 1916. The building was deconsecrated
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in 1952 and became the Royal Air Force Association
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Club, The Old Central Hebrew Congregational Synagogue
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, then finally a Sikh temple
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. The original 1870 Chapel was damaged by fire in 2005 and as of 2019 was derelict.
Memorial to J.F. Longrigg, St Paul's, Shipley, 1890
This wall memorial to the Rev. John Fallowfield Longrigg MA, who died 8 September 1888, was produced in Appleyard's stoneyard. It is in St Paul's Church, Kirkgate, Shipley, West Yorkshire
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, a Grade II listed building
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, and consists of a white marble tablet on a slab of empress red marble which was originally "on the west wall, to the right of the central doorway, of St Paul's Church." It is now on the left side of the door. Longrigg had initiated a young men's class during his curacy, and this group organised the funding by subscription of the tablet, which was "completed in a very artistic manner". Longrigg also initiated the poor children's annual Christmas dinner at Shipley, and this work continued for many years after he left St Paul's. The dedication is to the "rarest devotion to duty" by Longrigg, who was curate of St Paul's 1885–1887, after which he was vicar of Emmanuel Church in Woodhouse Lane, Leeds from November 1887. He died suddenly in September of the following year.
Saint Paul Shipley (3).JPG, ''Longrigg memorial'', 1890, closeup
Saint Paul Shipley (4).JPG, ''Longrigg memorial'', 1890
London and Midland Bank, Leeds, 1890–1892
This is a listed building
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. It is on the south-west side of Kirkgate (number 110) where it meets Vicar Lane. It faces the south-west corner of Kirkgate Market
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. It was designed by William Bakewell (1839–1925) of Leeds at a cost of £4,500 (), with carving by J.W. Appleyard. Work was begun in 1890. The walls of the banking hall were lined with light-veined Italian marble
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, the floor was of mosaic
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, the fittings included a five-foot dado and were of solid American walnut, and the ceiling was "richly panelled." The stone for the exterior came from the Morley and Idle
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quarries, and the building carries the arms
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of Leeds and London. Heating was "effected by hot air pipes disposed in coils throughout the building," and there was a hydraulic lift
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** Paternoster lift, a type of lift using a continuous chain of cars which do not stop
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. It was open for business in December 1891, but did not move into the new premises until February 1892. The ''Pevsner Guide'' cites "fine carving, including King Midas
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." English Heritage
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says that above the pediment there is a "draped female statue flanked by animals, a lion and unicorn at corners," however the statue is of a bearded man with donkey's ears; he is isolated, representing tragedy
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- and he has no crown. It is Midas who has lost everything.
London and Midland Bank Leeds (47).JPG, The building in 2019
London and Midland Bank Leeds (25).JPG, ''Unicorn'' on left of pediment
London and Midland Bank Leeds (43).JPG, ''Midas'' on top of pediment, 1892
London and Midland Bank Leeds (17).JPG, ''Lion'' on right of pediment
York City and County Bank, Leeds, 1890–1892
This is a listed building
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. It was built originally as the York City and County Bank. For several years until 2019 it was Jamie's restaurant. It is on the corner of Park Row and Bond Court, Leeds, West Yorkshire. It was designed by Stephen Ernest Smith (1845–1925) and John Tweedale (1853–1905) of 12 South Parade, Leeds, and completed in 1892. It has a decorated frieze. The ''Pevsner guide'' cites carved exterior detail by John Wormald Appleyard at the corner entrance, on the upper floor, and on Corinthian columns. The exterior is of "cleansed Bradford stone ... the frieze and pediment being carried by polished red granite columns. The architecture of the first and second floors is of a Corinthian order, having coupled columns, and the whole is crowned by richly carved frieze, cornice, and vase terminals." The walls of the banking hall were originally lined with Burmantofts faience. The hall's furnishings were of half-polished oak with specially designed brass fittings. The first and second floors were intended as offices, with their own strong room
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on each floor, and their own Bond Street entrance. There was also a "fine suite of offices" on the ground floor, with its own Park Row entrance. The opening of this building was delayed due to a major fire at the saw mill belonging to Nicholson & Son of Prospect Works, Crown Point Road, Leeds. "The preparation of the woodwork, some of it of a highly ornate and valuable character, such as carved screens and the like, was in an advanced stage; but none had left the premises." This work, intended for the York City and County Bank, was destroyed by the fire.
York City and County Bank Leeds (1).jpg, Architect's drawing, 1892
York City and County Bank (6).JPG, ''Frieze'' under cornice, 1892
York City and County Bank (7).JPG, ''Capitals'', 1892
Window, St John the Evangelist, Farsley, before 1894
This stained glass crucifixion
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window is in St John the Evangelist Church, Farsley
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, West Yorkshire, a listed building
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. The window was found in Appleyard's Cookridge Road studio after his death. It had been designed and executed by him during his lifetime. It was possibly intended in memory of his parents who are buried in St John's churchyard, although his friends added a dedication to Appleyard's memory only. It was installed in June or July 1894. The windows of St John's were restored in 2015.
Appleyard window (3).JPG, ''Appleyard window'', before 1894
Appleyard window (5a).jpg, ''Appleyard window'', detail
Appleyard window (4).JPG, ''Appleyard window'', crucifixion
Leeds School of Medicine, Thoresby Place, Leeds, 1891–1894
This is a listed building. It was designed initially for 400 students, in " collegiate Tudor Gothic" by Leeds-born William Henry Thorp
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FRIBA (1852–1944), and completed in October 1894. In July 1890 when Thorp was appointed for this job, he was instructed to visit all the other new medical schools with a member of the Medical Board before beginning the design. So the building reflects his visits to London
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, Cambridge
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, Newcastle
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, Edinburgh
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, Glasgow
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and Dublin
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. The building stands in Thoresby Place, beside George Gilbert Scott
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's original frontage of Leeds General Infirmary
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. It has three storeys plus attics, and was built of local brick with Morley Moor sandstone
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dressings and terracotta
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details. The interior hall is lined with Mansfield stone. There are three coats of arms
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in the foyer, carved by Appleyard: the Royal College of Physicians
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, the Royal College of Surgeons
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and Victoria University Victoria University may refer to:
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. On the exterior there is a carved coat of arms over a window, "stone relief panel over second floor bays with angel holding shield," and gargoyles. "The outer porch is entered through an elaborately moulded archway, with traceried and curved spandrils, enriched with emblems of the Tudor rose and lily ... all the carved work, both in wood and stone, was executed by the late Mr J.W. Appleyard of Leeds." The design of the eye sockets and visible vertebrae of the grotesques here are key to the identification of Appleyard's own work on Headingley Hill Congregational Church, and the liondogs on the staircase of Leeds Central Library
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mentioned above.
Old School of Medicine built 1894 (96a).jpg, ''Faux gargoyle, a dragon'', 1893
Old School of Medicine built 1894 (157a).jpg, ''Grotesque'', possible self-portrait, 1893
Old School of Medicine built 1894 (93a).jpg, ''Angel'', 1893
Old School of Medicine interior (18b).jpg, Arms of the Royal College of Surgeons
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, 1893., alt=Arms of the Royal College of Surgeons, 1893.: 87
Old School of Medicine interior (12).JPG, Carved wood ceiling boss, 1893
Old School of Medicine interior (72a).jpg, Carved wood faux keystone, 1893
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