Mawer and Ingle
They are six stories in height, and built in the Italian renaissance style of architecture, the basements being of Bramley Fall sandstone,[31] and the remainder of principal facade of Park Spring ashlar,[32] highly enriched with appropriate carving, chiefly symbolical of the trade and commerce of the town ...
The large warehouse in Vicar Lane, the property of and now occupied by Messrs Schwann, Kell & Co.[33] ... is six stories in height, besides attics, and has two frontages of a plain Italian style of architecture, about 210 feet in length ...
Above the arch the figure of St Matthew is introduced in a medallion, and the gable is crowned by a floriated cross The old pulpit has been removed, and a new one, of a most elaborate and handsome description, fills its place.
It will be remembered that when the church was reopened, after its enlargment last year, a pulpit and lectern, in Caen stone and marble had been given, the former by the ladies of the congregation, and the latter by Mr Corson, the architect, under whose skilful superintendence the alterations had been carried out.
It stands on a raised platform, four steps above the adjoining roadway, open on two sides, and enclosed in the rear semi-hexagonally by a low wall with piers, and neat iron pallisading.
Four draped female figures occupy these niches, representing respectively – Industry, Fine Arts, Literature and Agriculture, all so well encouraged and fostered by the Illustrious Prince during his lifetime.
Above these the monument takes an octagonal form to a further height of eight feet; at each angle is a polished red Aberdeen granite shaft, bisected by a moulded stone string course, and terminated by carved capitals.
"[71] (Illustrated London News 18 July 1863)The Bradford Observer said that "Mawer and Ingle of Leeds ... executed the whole (with the exception of the taps and the engraved plates, which are from the establishment of Messrs. Isaac Storey and Son, of Manchester).
"[81] Media related to 30 Park Place, Leeds at Wikimedia Commons Endcliffe Hall in Endlcliffe, Sheffield, is a Grade II* listed building, built for steel manufacturer Sir John Brown.
In 1865, the Sheffield Independent said:[84] "The general style of architecture is Italian, of a character particularly susceptible of elaborate ornamentation ... the columns which support the landing gallery [above the grand double staircase] are beautifully carved ...
"[87][88] (Sheffield Daily Telegraph 24 May 1865) Media related to Endcliffe Hall at Wikimedia Commons The former Church of St John the Evangelist stood on Dixon Lane Road, Wortley, Leeds.
The Leeds Intelligencer said of the former building: "Since the commemoration services of 1864, the church has been enriched by the erection of a handsome reredos in Caen stone, purchased at the cost of the congregation, and executed by Messrs. Mawer and Ingle, under the direction of Messrs. Dobson & Chorley, architects.
[104] After his sudden death in 1864 of apoplexy,[105][106] "A subscription was opened for the purpose of erecting a monument to perpetuate his memory ... a tablet of Derbyshire alabaster, highly enriched with inlaid marble, &c., having been placed on the north side of Holy Trinity Church.
[103] Media related to Holy Trinity Low Moor, Joshua Fawcett memorial at Wikimedia Commons The Wool Exchange, Bradford, is a Grade I listed building.
[115] The Leeds Mercury and the Illustrated London News said that "The centre compartment of the main hall is supported by eighteen large polished shafts of red granite, two feet in diameter, with beautifully carved capitals.
On 29 September 1866, the Leeds Times observed: "On the walls above, the sculptors are busily employed in finishing their carved ornamentation and giving all a kind of mediaeval aspect, as unlike as possible - a few churches excepted - most of the architecture in the town ... Several workmen are engaged upon the spire.
"[117] James Tolmie (1826–1866)[118] executed the figures of Bishop Blaise patron saint of woolcombers, and Edward III who granted Bradford's trading charter,[119] at the entrance beneath the tower, but died suddenly, leaving them unfinished, and no evidence has been found that he did further work on the building.
Along the Bank Street front the heads already finished are those of Sir Walter Raleigh, Drake and Columbus; and those are to be supplemented by Captain Cook and Commodore Anson ... [The two statues by Tolmie were not yet in place.]
Inside, the aisles are divided from the nave by two fine arcades of arches, which spring from massive columns having central dog-tooth bands, moulded bases and carved capitals.
The font, of hard Bolton Wood stone is placed near the entrance; it is of good character ... Messrs. Mawer & Ingle, Leeds, carving" (except the pulpit, which is by Rutter & Kett (sic) of Cambridge).
"[156] Media related to Scottish Widows building Park Row Leeds at Wikimedia Commons The structure built for the United Free Methodists day and infant schools, Back Lane, Farsley, in 1869, is unlisted.
In 1869 the Bradford Observer reported:[159] "Over each door the spandril has been filled in with carved fern leaves with the monogram in the centre, the one containing the Year of Our Lord, and the other the letters UFM representing the United Free Methodists, the denomination who have erected the schools.
[165][166][167] At the foundation ceremony, the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer said that the tower and spire would be built later, and that the building was "divided into a nave and side aisles by circular stone shafts, having carved capitals supporting pointed arches in stone ... A porch vestibule, equal in extent to the width of the nave, is placed at the west end, with a deeply recessed entrance, having shafts with carved capitals and bold arch mouldings.
In 1869, the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer reported: "The chancel is finished as an apse of five sides, with a single light lancet window in each, and stone shafts in the angles, with bases corbelled out from the wall, bands and carved caps supporting the ribs of the roof.
[179] Media related to St John the Evangelist, Dewsbury Moor at Wikimedia Commons The Former All Saints Church, Station Lane, Woodlesford, West Yorkshire, has been a Grade II listed building since 1988.
The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer said in 1869: "The pulpit and font are of Caen stone with red Devonshire and green serpentine marble shafts, with moulded bases and carved capitals.
The roof timbers in the chancel are supported on red Devonshire marble shafts and carved Caen stone capitals ... Mawer & Ingle, Leeds, carvers' work.
[189] Media related to Church of All Saints, Woodlesford at Wikimedia Commons Trent Bridge, on London Road, Nottingham, is a 700 feet (210 m) Grade II listed structure which cost approximately £31,000 (equivalent to £3,650,000 in 2023)[190] to build in 1871.
[193] The ground was broken in September 1868; foundations, cofferdams and abutments were under construction by February 1869 in spite of heavy floods;[194] and the bridge was opened on Tuesday 25 July 1871 by the Mayor of Nottingham, John Manning.
The river piers are terminated at all the ends with clustered columns of polished Aberdeen granite, these support large carved caps, upon which are placed blocks of red Mansfield stone, the latter forming on the inside next the footpath seat recesses for the accommodation of foot passengers crossing the bridge.
