They've warned that any proposal to remove the statues would be met with 'considerable opposition'
, which is a separate ongoing project to pedestrianise the area, will be completed after Christmas. The local authority insists the statues won’t be moved while those works are completed either.
But in their letter, the group of historians said: “Any proposal to remove the statuary from the City Square would be met by considerable opposition from Leeds citizens, who have for 120 years regarded the statuary as being integral to the Square through the many changes in the Square and its surroundings.
Around the Square’s perimeter are eight female figures – commonly referred to as nymphs – holding lamps. In their letter, the historians added: “There have been suggestions that the nymphs objectivise women. These statues were created by Alfred Drury, a leading English sculptor, as lantern holding nymphs.“They are certainly not naturalistic representations of women and it is difficult to perceive them as other than the works of art that they manifestly are.
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