page_title: Mawer and Ingle
section_title: Scottish Widows insurance building, Park Row, Leeds, 1869
hierarchical_section_title: Mawer and Ingle / Works by Mawer & Ingle / Scottish Widows insurance building, Park Row, Leeds, 1869
caption_attribution_description: Offices built for the Leeds branch of Scottish Widows insurance company in 1869, designed by architect George Corson. The stone carving was executed by Mawer and Ingle. The carved lettering over the door - "St Andrews Chambers" - may have been added later. Showing a Scottish Widow head.
context_page_description: Mawer and Ingle was a company of architectural sculptors, based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, between 1860 and 1871. It comprised cousins Charles Mawer and William Ingle, and Catherine Mawer who was mother of Charles and aunt of William. The group produced carvings on many Gothic Revival churches and their internal furnishings. They also worked on civic buildings, warehouses and offices. Many of these are now listed by Historic England, and many of the surviving buildings are within Yorkshire. Their work outside Yorkshire included Trent Bridge.
context_section_description: The Scottish Widows building on the east side of Park Row, Leeds, opposite the old Bank of England, now known as St Andrews Chambers, is a Grade II listed building. It was designed by George Corson in Italianate style, and the foundations were laid in 1869. It was planned with two porticos with paired red granite pillars. It was built as planned, but sometime after 1905 it lost one portico, and now has four ground floor windows instead of three. Historic England describes its "elaborately carved door surround." The windows each have a "carved tympanum on consoles and carved aprons to 1st floor." There is a "Guilloche frieze with projecting lions' heads, heavy modillion eaves cornice and balustraded parapet with urns."
  In 1869, the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer said of the architect's drawings: "The elevation is in the Italian style ... entirely of stone ... There are two entrances, one at each end of the front, exactly alike ... The entrances are open porticoes, with two coupled Corinthian columns, and pilasters corresponding on each side of the doorway ... The first floor has a range of five windows ... with carving in the tympanae ... The building is crowned with a massive cornice, richly carved ... Messrs. Mawer and Ingle, Leeds, are the masons employed."
   Media related to Scottish Widows building Park Row Leeds at Wikimedia Commons
caption: Head in doorway of Scottish Widows building
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