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Queensgate, HUDDERSFIELD, HD1 3DH

As seen from the inner ring road.

A new building of the seemingly rapidly-expanding Huddersfield University. Rather eyecatching I thought, with a pleasing sweeping curve following the road. By Darnton Elgee, c2008.

University of Huddersfield, Harold Wilson Building

Formerly St Paul's Church, but is now a busy 400 seat concert venue.

Looking south, with a fine terrace of early-nineteenth century houses on the left, and the vista closed by St Paul's church (now a concert hall), designed in 1829 by John Oates or Joseph Kaye. Grade II listed. The distant tower on the hill is Victoria Tower, completed in 1899 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Queen Victoria's reign.

Poet Lemn Sissay MBE's work, 'Let there be peace', engraved on the University's Creative Arts Building. The giant 40 feet high, 30 feet wide and 100 feet in the sky poem was unveiled in October 2014 (http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/poet-lemn-sissay-unveils-giant-7878258 Huddersfield Daily Examiner). LET THERE BE PEACE Let there be peace So frowns fly away like albatross And skeletons foxtrot from cupboards, So war correspondents become travel show presenters And magpies bring back lost property, Children, engagement rings, broken things. Let there be peace So storms can go out to sea to be Angry and return to calm, So the broken can rise up and dance in the hospitals. Let the Aged Ethiopian man in the grey block of flats Peer through his window and see Addis before him, So his thrilled outstretched arms become frames For his dreams. Let there be peace Let tears evaporate to form clouds, cleanse themselves And fall into reservoirs of drinking water. Let harsh memories burst into fireworks that melt In the dark pupils of a child’s eyes And disappear like shoals of silver darting fish, And let the waves reach the shore with a Shhhhhhhhhhhhh shhhhhhhhhhhhhh shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Lemn Sissay MBE

Poet Lemn Sissay MBE's work, 'Let there be peace', engraved on the University's Creative Arts Building (Image]). The giant 40 feet high, 30 feet wide and 100 feet in the sky poem was unveiled in October 2014 (http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/poet-lemn-sissay-unveils-giant-7878258 Huddersfield Daily Examiner). LET THERE BE PEACE Let there be peace So frowns fly away like albatross And skeletons foxtrot from cupboards, So war correspondents become travel show presenters And magpies bring back lost property, Children, engagement rings, broken things. Let there be peace So storms can go out to sea to be Angry and return to calm, So the broken can rise up and dance in the hospitals. Let the Aged Ethiopian man in the grey block of flats Peer through his window and see Addis before him, So his thrilled outstretched arms become frames For his dreams. Let there be peace Let tears evaporate to form clouds, cleanse themselves And fall into reservoirs of drinking water. Let harsh memories burst into fireworks that melt In the dark pupils of a child’s eyes And disappear like shoals of silver darting fish, And let the waves reach the shore with a Shhhhhhhhhhhhh shhhhhhhhhhhhhh shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Lemn Sissay MBE

The church was built 1829-31, architect John Oates, builder Joseph Kaye. A chancel was added in 1883. Its burial ground was closed by Act of Parliament in 1852 but burials actually continued until 1917. It closed as a place of worship in 1959, and after standing empty for many years was sold to Huddersfield Council in 1975 for conversion to a concert hall (St Paul's Hall) seating 400 people. It now forms part of the University of Huddersfield. Listed grade II (list entry 1231471). Source: 'Churches: A question of conversion', K Powell & C de la Hay, SAVE, 1987, p 93.

Central Services Building and the corner of Harold Wilson Building at Huddersfield University