Memorials and blue plaques in Leeds
Blue plaques, memorials and monuments across Leeds. A quiet place to read about the lives held in this England city, and to visit them in person.
205 locations, organised A to Z. Includes 6 war memorials.
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Adelaide Neilson
Outside main entrance to West Yorkshire Playhouse, Quarry Hill, LS2 7UP

Agnes Logan Stewart
Bridge Community Church, Rider Street, LS9 7BQ

Albert Goldthorpe
John Charles Centre for Sport, Middleton Grove

Albert Louis Johanneson
The East Stand, Low Fields Road

Alf Cooke
Otley Road, LS16 5PS

Alfred Waterhouse
Yorkshire College

Alice Martha Bacon MP
Corn Exchange

Alistair Brownlee
Horsforth New Road Side

Allerton Bywater War Memorial
War Memorial
Location details from OpenStreetMap

Angela Morley
331 Kirkstall Road

Arthur Ransome
6 Ash Grove, Hyde Park

Assembly Rooms, Leeds
Assembly Street

Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
Commercial Inn, Sweet Street, Holbeck
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Bank of England
Park Row

Bardon Hill Stables
Weetwood Lane, LS16

Benjamin Henry Latrobe
No 34 Fulneck, Pudsey

Blue plaque № 52466
Leeds Golf Club, Elmete Lane

Bramley Rugby League Football Club
The Barley Mow Inn, Town Street, Bramley LS13

Brass plaque № 30413
Corn Exchange, Cloth Hall Street

Bronze plaque № 10171
17-19 Bridge End

Burley Bar Stone
The Headrow

Burmantofts Pottery
Gargrave Court LS9 7ED
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Catherine Mawer
48 Albion Street LS1 6AB

Central Higher Grade School
Great George Street

Central Station Wagon Hoist
Wellington Place

Charles Barker Howdill
14 Hanover Square. LS3 1AP

Charles H. Crabtree
17-19 Wharf Street. LS2 7EQ

Charles Roberts Chorley
King Street

Charles Wilson MP
The Northern School of Contempory Dance, Chapeltown Road, LS7 4BH.

Christina Rossetti
Swarthmore Education Centre, 6 Woodhouse Square

Church Institute, Leeds
Albion Pl

Cliff Tannery and Leather Works
Sugarwell Court, Meanwood Road

Clifford Memorial
War Memorial
Location details from OpenStreetMap

Coloured Cloth Hall
Infirmary Street

Cookridge Hall
Cookridge Lane, LS16

Cottage Road Cinema
Cottage Road Cinema, Far Headingley

Cuthbert Brodrick
Cookridge Street

Cuthbert Brodrick
Corn Exchange (inside entrance), Call Lane
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J. R. R. Tolkien CBE FRSL
2 Darnley Road, West Park

Jackie Hill
Alma Road, Headingley

James Hutchinson Mann
Pepper Road, Hunslet

John Atkinson Grimshaw
56 Cliff Road

John Carr
Junction of Lidgett Lane and Gledhow Lane. LS8 1PG

John Clark
East Street

John Clark
Gatehouse, St Georges Field, University of Leeds

John Dobson
Elmete Lane LS8 2LJ

John Harrison
New Briggate

John Ireland
Moorland Road

John Leeming
Kirkgate market

John Marshall
The Grange, Beckett Park

John Marshall
Marshall Street

John Marshall
Marshall Street LS11 9YJ

John McLaren
Equinox Design Ltd, 100 Jack Lane, Hunslet, LS10

John Smeaton FRS
Leeds Lock

John Wesley MA
Colton Road. LS15 9AA

John Wilkinson
Hanover Square

Joseph Aspdin
somewhere Yard

Joshua Tetley
Hunslet Road

June Hancock
30 Salisbury View, Armley
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Lady Elizabeth Hastings
Boar Lane

Lawrence Oates
Meanwood Park

Leeds & County Liberal Club
Quebecs Hotel, Quebec Street, LS1

Leeds and Liverpool Canal Warehouse
Canal Wharf

Leeds Burial Ground
Beckett Street Cemetery

Leeds Charity School
Mark Lane

Leeds Civic Hall
Millennium Square, Portland Crescent

Leeds Club
3 Albion Place, LS1

Leeds Co-operative Society
Gatepost at the entrance of Leodis Court (opp. Temple Mill).

Leeds Rhinos Rugby League Football Club
49 St Michael's Lane

Leeds Rifles
Carlton Barracks, Carlton Hill, LS7

Leeds School Board
Calverley Street

Leeds School of Medicine
Thoresby Place

Leeds Trades Council
Leeds Media Centre. LS7 3HZ

Leeds Union Workhouse
Beckett Street

Leonora Cohen OBE JP
2 Claremont Villas, Clarendon Road, LS3

Louis Le Prince
Blenheim Terrace

Louis Le Prince
adjacent to the Leeds Bridge
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Major Harold Brown MC DSO
Gatepost, The Hollies, Weetwood Lane

Mary Gawthorpe
Warrel's Mount, Bramley

Matthew Wilson
St John's Place

Maurice Ellis FRCS
Leeds General Infirmary

Meanwood Tannery
Mill Pond Close

Michael Marks
Marks & Spencer, Briggate

Middleton Railway
Station, Moor Road, LS10

Mill Hill Chapel
Park Row

Montague Burton
Hudson Road, LS9 7DN

Mount St Marys Convent, Orphanage & School
Mt St Marys Catholic High School, Ellerby Road, LS9

Multicoloured plaque № 53194
City Varieties, Swan Street
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Oakwood Clock
Roundhay Road, Oakwood

Old Boggart House
Playhouse Square, Quarry Hill

ORT Technical Engineering School
New Horizons Community School, Newton Hill Road, LS7 4JE

Ossett War Memorial
War Memorial
Location details from OpenStreetMap

Otley War Memorial
War Memorial
Location details from OpenStreetMap
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R. A. H. Livett OBE
73 Wykebeck Valley Road, Gipton

Railway Roundhouse, Leeds
The Roundhouse, Wellington Road

Ralph Thoresby FRS
15 Kirkgate

Rev Charles Jenkinson
St John & St Barnabas Church LS10 3DN

Rev Parsons
Leeds

Richard Bentley FRS
Bentley Square, Calverley Rd, Oulton, LS26

Richard Oastler
The Wardrobe, St Peters Square (by BBC North HQ)

Richard Wilson
New Station Street

Robert Blackburn
Tescos, Roundhay
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Samuel Ledgard
Nelson Inn, 210-212 Armley Rd

Samuel Smiles
Leeds Institute, Millennium Square

Selig Brodetsky
5 Grosvenor Road, LS6 2DZ

Sir Dr Clifford Allbutt KCB
Lyddon Hall, University of Leeds, Virginia Rd

Sir Frank Brangwyn
Roundhay Road

Sir George Gilbert Scott
Portland Street

Sir Harry Lauder
City Varieties Music Hall, Swan Street

Sir Henry Irving
46 New Briggate LS1 6NZ

Sir John Barran 1st Baronet
Josephs Well, Chorley

Sir John Barran 1st Baronet
Park Square

Sir John Betjeman CBE
Briggate

Sir Leonard Hutton
Fulneck, Pudsey

Sir Lord Berkeley Moynihan KCMG
33 Park Square

Sir Robert Smirke
Gotts Park Golf Club, Armley Ridge Road

Sir Rt Hon. Lord John Reith GCVO PC CB KT GBE
Foyer, BBC, St. Peter's Square

Sir William Henry Bragg OM KBE PRS
Parkinson Building, University of Leeds

Smithfield Ironworks
North Street

Solomon Belinsky
The Old Fire Station, Gipton

South Bar, Leeds
Southern end of Leeds Bridge, LS10

Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, Leeds
21 Leopold St, LS7 4DA

St. Michael's College
CQ The Court, Clarendon Quarter, St John’s Road, Hyde Park

Steph's Packed Lunch
Leeds Dock
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The Adelphi
Adelphi Hotel, 1-5 Hunslet Road

The Cardigan Arms
364 Kirkstall Road

The Indoor League
The Irish Centre, York Road

The New Penny
The Calls

The Rising Sun
290, Kirkstall Road

The Unknown Warrior
War Memorial
Location details from OpenStreetMap

Thomas Ambler
Leeds City College Hunslet Road, LS10 1JY.

Thomas Edmund Harvey
Rydal House, 5 Grosvenor Terrace, Headingley

Thomas Nicholson
Mansion Lane

Thomas Nicholson
Canal Gardens, on archway leading to Tropical World, LS8

Thomas Shaw
Globe Road

Tom Maguire
Leeds Bus Station, York Street
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Walter Samuel Braithwaite
Harehills Road. LS8 5HS.

West Bar
Boar Lane

White Cloth Hall, Leeds
Cloth Hall Street

William Astbury FRS
kirkstall Lane, Headingley

William Butler Yeats
8, Blenheim Terrace

William Gascoigne
Town Street

William Hey
2 Albion Pl

William Ingle
30 Park Place

William Turton
64, The Calls

Wortley Grammar School
Lower Wortley Road
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Data sources
Location records are drawn from open, licence-clean datasets, kept here with attribution and gratitude to the people who maintain them.
- Open Plaques, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). See openplaques.org.
- Wikidata, available under the CC0 1.0 Universal dedication.
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.
- Historic England, National Heritage List for England, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. War memorial records are drawn from open community datasets (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NHLE) — never from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is excluded.
Editorial descriptions, photography and tribute links are original TributeLegacy work, layered on top of the open data.