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The main entrance through the rear loggia has paired panelled doors glazed in stained glass with fruit and butterfly motifs. The entrance hall has mosaic floor and has been partition for flats. The stone cantilevered staircase has a wrought-iron scrolled balustrade and a mahogany handrail. The
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archive in 2014. Community groups from local libraries, guided by an artist, worked to "find the voice" of the scrapbook and explore themes around it, visited and photographed Gledhow Hall including its faience bathroom.
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windows, each with stained glass representing foliage, flowers and fruit. On the first floor is the tiled bathroom from 1885. The elaborate faience (
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and a dentilled cornice. The ceiling is tiled in a strapwork design and has three diamond-shaped vents. The adjacent toilet is similarly decorated.
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as one of its most important treasures The scrapbook was chosen for the UK-wide Digital War Memorial, hosted by
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painted a watercolour view of the hall in about 1816, staying at the house while he made preparatory sketches.
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and is accessed by stone steps. The extension by Chorley and Connon at the rear has three bays, two pairs of
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succeeded to the title and the estate on his father's death in 1911. The Kitsons entertained several Liberal
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was created for a visit from the Prince of Wales. The bathroom has panelled mahogany doors and a
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moulded fireplace. The walls are covered with moulded tiles in brown, blue and white, with a
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The scrapbook, filled with "photographs, newscuttings, letters and ephemera" is held by
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was its commandant (officer in charge) throughout the war. She kept a scrapbook,
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The Kitsons and the Arts: a Leading family in Sicily and the West Riding
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and lead with a tall chimney stack. The south front has two two-storey
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The Lloyd George Liberal Magazine 1920-1923, Volume 1, Issues 1-6
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when she was in Leeds for a reception of women supporters of the
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Gledhow Hall is built on what was monastic land, the property of
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English country house
Gledhow
Leeds
West Yorkshire
John Carr
listed building
converted into flats

Kirkstall Abbey
Dissolution of the Monasteries
John Carr
J. M. W. Turner
James Kitson, 1st Baron Airedale
Albert Kitson, 2nd Baron Airedale
Prime Ministers
William Gladstone
son
H. H. Asquith
wife
Margaret Lloyd George
wartime coalition

ashlar
chamfered
quoins
cornices
balustraded
parapet
hipped roof

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