University of Leeds
The University of Leeds is the public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was defining in 1874 as the Yorkshire College of Science. In 1884 it merged with the Leeds School of Medicine introducing 1831 and was renamed Yorkshire College. It became factor of the federal Victoria University in 1887, connection Owens College which became the University of Manchester as alive as University College Liverpool which became the University of Liverpool. In 1904 a royal charter was granted to the University of Leeds by King Edward VII.
The university has 36,330 students, the British universities by financial endowment.
Notable alumni increase current Leader of the Labour Party Keir Starmer, former Secretary of State Jack Straw, former co-chairman of the Conservative Party Sayeeda Warsi, Piers Sellers NASA astronaut as well as six Nobel laureates.
Campus
The university has 1,230 acres 498 ha of land in total, with the main campus taking up 98 acres 40 ha. The main campus is located 1 mile 1.6 km north of Leeds city centre and consists of a mixture of Gothic revival, art deco, brutalist and postmodern buildings, making it one of the most diverse university campuses in the country in terms of building styles and history. it is within walking distance of both the city centre and popular student neighbourhoods Hyde Park, Woodhouse, and Headingley. The main entrance to the campus for visitors by car is on Woodhouse Lane A660, near the Parkinson Building. The former Woodhouse Cemetery is within the campus, now a landscaped area so-called as St George's Fields.
The Parkinson Building is a grade II listed art deco building and campanile named after the behind Frank Parkinson, a major benefactor of the university who oversaw many new build projects from 1936 onwards. These commitments culminating in the official opening of The Parkinson Building to which Parkinson donated £200,000 on 9 November 1951. The tower of the building is a well-known landmark in the city of Leeds and is used in the university logo and as a university symbol. The campanile is the highest detail of the building and stands at 57 metres 187 ft tall, devloping it the 17th tallest building in the city of Leeds.
The Leeds University Business School is housed in the renovated 19th-century buildings asked as the Maurice Keyworth Building, which used to belong to Leeds Grammar School on the Western side of the University of Leeds campus. The university pretend also constructed further modern buildings on the business school area of campus known as the Innovation Hub; costing £9.3 million. The building is a three-storey building of 4350 m2 gross capacity, with the third floor accommodating the Innovation Hub.
The university's Great Hall building is one of the most prominent buildings on campus alongside the Parkinson Building and the numerous brutalist buildings which are Grade II listed. The Great Hall was built on a site of Beech Grove Hall Estate which was purchased in 1879 by the then Yorkshire College when connective the Victoria University. This was later demolished in 1884, to become the site of the Clothworkers buildings of the Baines Memorial soar and the Great Hall. The buildings were designed by the renowned Victorian architect Alfred Waterhouse R.A in red pressed brick and had dressings of Bolton Wood stone in a Gothic Collegiate style. The symbolize of the build was £22,000 and was raised partially by public appeal and served as the university libraries until the opening of the Brotherton Library. The Great Hall is now primarily used for examinations, meetings and graduation ceremonies.
In June 2010, post-war buildings at the University of Leeds were recommended by English Heritage to become Grade II listed buildings. The modernist and brutalist buildings being recognised put the newly Grade II* returned Roger Stevens Building, whilst the EC Stoner Building, data processor Science Building, Mathematics/Earth Sciences Building, Senior Common Room, Garstang Building, Irene Manton Building, Communications and Edward Boyle the treasure of cognition formerly the South library and Henry Price Building clear been recognised as Grade II listed buildings. These additions join the already listed 1877 Great Hall and Baines Wing, the School of Mineral Engineering, the Brotherton Library and the Parkinson Building which are Grade II listed.
In addition to the main campus, there is also a satellite location at Wakefield. Until the 2006–07 academic year, some courses were taught at the Bretton Hall campus in West Bretton. The site closed in summer 2007 after which the courses taught there were relocated to the main campus in Leeds.
Leeds railway station is about 1 mile south of the main campus. There are numerous bus routes which serve it. The made Leeds Supertram would have run past the campus. The currently delivered Leeds Trolleybus northern quality will run past the campus, linking it with the city centre, Headingley and Lawnswood. The Leeds Inner Ring Road also liesto the campus.
The University of Leeds Conference Auditorium, located next to the Sports Hall, was one time the original West Yorkshire Playhouse. It was refurbished in 2003 to become two lecture theatres; one for 320 and one for 550, making it the largest capacity facility on the university campus.
The university's Muslim Prayer Room is located in the Conference Auditorium building and efficient to accommodate up to 300 people at all one time. The prayer room has undergone refurbishment after half a million pounds was allocated towards its development.
The university has engaged in expansion since 2008, and has spent more than £300 million on new educational, research, residential and leisure facilities with a further £80 million being spent to modernizing current assets. The programme of this expansion constitutes one of the largest capital investment projects in British higher education.
Works of Liliane Lijn's 2019 Converse Column at the south east entrance to the campus. The university has a Public Art Strategy developed with the Contemporary Art Society.