This is a Grade I listed building.
It was designed by Cuthbert Brodrick and the foundation stone was laid on 14 August 1853.
It was opened by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on 7 September 1858.

The carving in the most prestigious position, in the tympanum over the main entrance, is the sole contribution by Thomas of London, the "sculptor of the Houses of Parliament."
 The artisan credited for the general carving work on the building is "Mrs Mawer, Leeds", who lived next door.
She was responsible for the huge Corinthian capitals and the ornamental turrets on the roof.
However Robert Mawer was working on the "large keystones carved with Mythical heads" or "giant masks", between 1853 and 1854, when he died.
Thomas Whiteley, the stonemason associated with Robert Mawer, also worked on the building; he was not a sculptor.
The carvings are in Rawdon Hill millstone grit.


In 1858, the Leeds Intelligencer said that: 
Thomas's tympanum over the main door "represents Leeds in its commercial character." [
To complement this], "The large panels [by Mawer] on each side of the entrance doorways are filled in with bold and classic scrolls and foliage, in the centre of each of which is a child bearing the fleece, having beneath the fasces and other emblems of Power and Justice, and above the caduceus of Mercury.(Leeds Intelligencer 11 Sep 1858)
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This is a Grade I listed building. It was designed by Cuthbert Brodrick and the foundation stone was laid on 14 August 1853. It was opened by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on 7 September 1858.
The carving in the most prestigious position, in the tympanum over the main entrance, is the sole contribution by Thomas of London, the "sculptor of the Houses of Parliament."  The artisan credited for the general carving work on the building is "Mrs Mawer, Leeds", who lived next door. She was responsible for the huge Corinthian capitals and the ornamental turrets on the roof. However Robert Mawer was working on the "large keystones carved with Mythical heads" or "giant masks", between 1853 and 1854, when he died. Thomas Whiteley, the stonemason associated with Robert Mawer, also worked on the building; he was not a sculptor. The carvings are in Rawdon Hill millstone grit.

In 1858, the Leeds Intelligencer said that: 
Thomas's tympanum over the main door "represents Leeds in its commercial character." [To complement this], "The large panels [by Mawer] on each side of the entrance doorways are filled in with bold and classic scrolls and foliage, in the centre of each of which is a child bearing the fleece, having beneath the fasces and other emblems of Power and Justice, and above the caduceus of Mercury.(Leeds Intelligencer 11 Sep 1858)
 Media related to Leeds Town Hall at Wikimedia Commons
Catherine Mawer