Client Leeds City Council
Project Municipal Park - Buildings, Monuments and
Landscape
Location Leeds
Services Conservation Management Plan, Lead
Consultant & Architectural Services
Purcell Miller Tritton was employed to produce a Conservation Management Plan for the buildings and landscape and subsequently as architects for implementation and completion of the works.
Roundhay Park is Leeds premier municipal park. Formerly the private estate of the Nicholson family, it was purchased by the city in the late 19th century. The landscape contains a variety of interesting structures from the municipal and pre-municipal eras, many of which have suffered from neglect and vandalism over the years. The partly Heritage Lottery funded project has seen many of these buildings brought back into use and carefully conserved or restored.
Three Victorian rain shelters have been brought back into use, new toilet facilities have been provided by means of alterations to the Lakeside Café and a new Bowls Pavilion has been constructed partly using components carefully salvaged from two derelict Edwardian toilet blocks. The Barran's fountain (a Victorian drinking fountain) underwent careful stonework conservation and cleaning and a new oculus was installed. This was based on a modern design as no details of the original were discovered.
In conjunction with the building works, a major landscape project is running simultaneously, which, amongst its other aims, is reintroducing vistas across the park, both to the structures and to the Mansion House itself, some of which have been lost from view since pre-municipal days.
