to the double height main hall. The interior was decorated in a neo-Jacobean scheme with an oak gallery with wooden segmental arches with turned balusters. The hall divides the house along a north–south axis. The interior reflects Prior's belief in the integration of architecture and furniture. Prior designed wardrobes, and cupboards in the gallery and dining room, and settles. The floors were bare wood with oriental carpets. The dining room ceiling was richly decorated in plaster work. Prior's interested in materials and craftsmanship were well established by the time he came to design Carr Manor. The house is built of local grey Horsforth Stone with grey Pool Bank stone for the dressings and a heavy grey slated roof. Local specialists, J. Mattack of Keighley undertook the stonework. Later history Allbutt, a vicar's son from Yorkshire, invented the short clinical thermometer and ophthalmoscope and published his influential eight-volume System of Medicine between 1896 and 1899. He was also supposedly the model of Tertius Lydgate M.D. in George Eliot's Middlemarch. Allbutt was typical of Prior's future clients: successful professional middle-class men, solicitors, barristers, doctors etc. In 1903 the Leeds firm of Bedford and Kiston were engaged to make major alterations to the house, doubling its size through the addition of a northern range and adding two stories to Prior's service wing, creating an E-shaped plan. They added two west bays to the garden front and altered the terrace. Their work carefully imitated that of Prior externally, but the interiors have been extensively altered with the repositioning of the entrance, hall and main staircase and the classification of the dining room. In 1914 Carr Manor was bought by the renowned Leeds-based surgeon, Sir Berkeley Moynihan, later the first Lord Moynihan. He lived there until his death in 1936. The house is now used by the Ministry of Justice as the Judges' Lodgings, housing High Court Judges when they come to Leeds to conduct trials. See also Bateman, D., "Berkeley Moynihan Surgeon" (1940) References External links Buildings and structures in Leeds Listed buildings in Leeds Grade II listed buildings in West Yorkshire Country houses in West Yorkshire Meanwood E. S. Prior buildings