page_title: Meanwood
section_title: Meanwood Towers
hierarchical_section_title: Meanwood / Geography and buildings / Meanwood Towers
caption_attribution_description: English: Meanwood Towers, Leeds LS6 4PL, UK. Designed by E. W. Pugin 1867
context_page_description: Meanwood is a suburb and former village in north-east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
  The area sits in the Moortown ward of Leeds City Council and Leeds North East parliamentary constituency.
context_section_description: In the middle of an estate of inter-war semi-detached houses behind Stonegate Road stands a Victorian Gothic house, Meanwood Towers. Designed by Edward Welby Pugin, and built in 1866-67. A private house, it was commissioned by Thomas Stuart Kennedy and was originally called Meanwood House. Kennedy commissioned the German organ-builder Edmund Schulze to build him a pipe organ. In 1869, it was installed in a specially-built 800-seat wooden concert hall or 'organ house'. After eight years, there were problems with the organ house and the Schulze organ was loaned to St. Peter's Church, Harrogate and two years later, in 1879, it was sold and presented to St. Bartholomew's Church, Armley.  
  In keeping with its grand design, the house was built with tall chimneys, but in 1969 these were shortened for safety reasons. Most of the original house survives, but converted into flats.
caption: Meanwood Towers, in 2017
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