SALTAIRE VISITOR MOORINGS

Mill building and chimney. 1868. By Lockwood and Mawson for Titus Salt. Hammer-dressed stone. Welsh slate roof. Two 4-storey blocks at 90° with lower sheds attached to north and east. The larger block faces south and has 28 bays by 4 bays of industrial casements and runs east-west parallel to the canal. The other block, on the west side of the complex, has 14 bays of industrial casements, with segmental heads, to its west facade. A wing projects at the left of this and to the right is a small entrance lodge. This block framed by rusticated pilaster-quoins. Between the two blocks is the chimney, based on the campanile of the church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice. It has a square tower with paired round-arched sunk panels, above which are 3-light round-arched louvred openings with hoodmould. A deep bracketed cornice is surmounted by an octagonal lantern with gound-arched opening). It is now the Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust Headquarters.

Photograph taken by jdathebowler on 6 April 2019 and was added to the database on Wednesday the 15th of January, 2020

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