An ornate stone pillar collapsed on a Grade 1 listed building in Leeds, sending a large slab of stone on to a pavement.
The pillar, one of 18 on the disused Temple Mills in Marshall Street, Holbeck, gave way in the early hours of yesterday. Nobody was hurt.
Temple Mills, a former flax mill, was built 170 years ago and modelled on the Egyptian Temple of Edfu.
Leeds Council officials and a representative of the mill owners, SJS Property Management, were on the scene soon after the collapse.
Marshall Street was cordoned off by police at either end of the building for fear of a further collapse.
Stewart Kellet, facilities manager for SJS Property Management, said that it was a tribute to the design and construction of the building that no more of the roof appeared to have collapsed.
The building was used by the mail order business Reality until four years ago when it was acquired by SJS Property Management.
The original mill section was built between 1839 and 1841 and the adjacent temple offices were built in the same style two years later in 1843. It was not clear what had caused the section of the roof to collapse.
By Andrew Robinson
Source : Yorkshire Post
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