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Title: Leeds churches
Post by: wildgoose on Monday 26 September 11 19:06 BST (UK)
anyone come across a photo of St Mary The Virgin, Quarry Hill, Leeds ???
Title: Re: Leeds churches
Post by: redshank on Wednesday 28 September 11 20:05 BST (UK)
This is from Leodis:

http://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=201021_170169

It says the church was in Mabgate which I can't quite place, but another picture on the same site shows the tower behind Quarry Hill Flats where demolition is taking place.

http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2007824_164565

Hope that's some help,

John
Title: Re: Leeds churches
Post by: wildgoose on Friday 30 September 11 21:28 BST (UK)
Many thanks.  Just come across another Leeds church St Alban the Martyr.

Any ideas ???
Title: Re: Leeds churches
Post by: redshank on Saturday 01 October 11 07:52 BST (UK)
Leodis has this view of the interior with a description of the church and its history:

http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=2006912_161877

A rather sad photo fom the same site:

http://www.leodis.org/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=6888

Leodis is a wonderful resource for photographs of  Leeds.

http://www.leodis.net/
Title: Re: Leeds churches
Post by: wildgoose on Saturday 01 October 11 10:55 BST (UK)
Thanks again ;D  Got another one - St Barnabas Holbeck
Title: Re: Leeds churches
Post by: dave the tyke on Sunday 02 October 11 11:36 BST (UK)
If you go to Google maps and search for Mabgate then look for the junction with St Marys Street, the grassed field is the old cholera cemetery, just a handfull of headstones still visible. St Marys used to be where the community building now stands to the right of the cemetery and the old vicarage Sunday school is still standing beyond that.

Dave
Title: Re: Leeds churches
Post by: redshank on Sunday 02 October 11 15:04 BST (UK)
St Barnabas, Holbeck -

http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20021216_16740054

Sorry, best I can come up with on Leodis.

Dave - thanks for that. Not an area of Leeds I know, but looking for these churches is certainly expanding my knowledge.

John
Title: Re: Leeds churches
Post by: wildgoose on Sunday 02 October 11 15:56 BST (UK)
Thanks for the help ;D  The headstones mentioned in the cholrea cemetery are they from the 1849 outbreak.  At least 7 members of my family died in the 1849 epidemic :'(
Title: Re: Leeds churches
Post by: dave the tyke on Sunday 02 October 11 16:57 BST (UK)
Sorry, I had ancestors who lived a couple of streets away so I made enquiries at Leeds library but they had no records. The burial records could be in the Catholic archives, you could try them.
Some of my ancestors were baptised at Call Lane Arian Independent / Arian Congregational, Leeds which was also fairly close and presents yet another church for your research.

Dave
Title: Leeds churches
Post by: wildgoose on Sunday 02 October 11 19:09 BST (UK)
Many thanks for the advice ;D However, all the baptisms & marriages I have so far are Church of England ;D
Title: Re: Leeds churches
Post by: clas on Saturday 18 February 12 23:21 GMT (UK)
Quote from: wildgoose on Monday 26 September 11 19:06 BST (UK)
anyone come across a photo of St Mary The Virgin, Quarry Hill, Leeds ???

If you put St Mary's Quarry Hill Leeds into google images there is one picture there which shows the church, albeit a long way away.  I remember it well - used to practise the organ there when a student.
Title: Re: Leeds churches
Post by: wildgoose on Sunday 19 February 12 08:10 GMT (UK)
Many thanks. :D