Kirkgate Buildings

Detail from Kirkgate Buildings in Huddersfield. This commercial building with ground-floor retail units and offices to the upper floors dates from c1883. The architect was William Henry Crossland with sculptural work by Italian sculptor Ceccardo Egidio Fucigna. The main entrance bay has a full-width round-arched opening with this figurative head keystone of a Greek god wearing a dragon/serpent-like headdress (possibly Heracles or Apollo). The building is listed grade II.