Whatever happened tothe graveyard of St Marys Church Quarry Hill Leeds

[dobfarm]

Hi

Your best bet is ask the Librarian - she has a File drawer index and computer info of her catalogue at her finger tips also they have some MI's and other info on St Mary's Quarry hill Leeds.


http://www.yas.org.uk/content/contact.html

Mind you Stan's doing a good job already 

[dave the tyke]

The graveyard was still there last year, however only a handful of headstones are there. The building at the top side of the school is the old presbytery cum Sunday school.
Leeds suffered badly from cholera epidemics in the 1800s and St Mary's graveyard was used extensively for the burial of victims.
There is an excellent aerial photo of St Mary's on the Leodis web site and some shots of the surrounding streets.
I was told by a librarian at Leeds central library that there were no records of burials at St Mary's.

Dave

[BumbleB]

My memory may be playing tricks on me  but I'm sure that I was told that burials at St Mary's were recorded in the  St Peter's register, with the note that the burial was actually at St Mary.  If I could remember who I was looking for at the time, I might be able to confirm it. 

BumbleB

Amended:  Yes, St Mary burials are entered at St Peter, with the note in the entry to say "at St Mary" 

[yorkshire grandma]

Thanks to everyone for the very useful and informative information I am receiving.
I now have a copy of a burial record Jan 1837 for Lawrence from the Parish Church  with "buried at St Marys" written on it for the site of burial.I know that Lawrence Anthony was RC so had been searching in RC chapels.
It is looking as though the burials are still in the old graveyard of St Marys and have been landscaped over.
I will try to confirm this with the various web sites and resources suggested in the posts to me.
A friend has lent me " To Prove I'm not Forgot" by Sylvia Barnard which is giving me a good picture of the social history of the area in 19th Century. Also has a good chapter on the Chapeltown Barracks where Lawrence was stationed, and mentions the 5th Dragoon as being regularly stationed there.Reading the history and conditions of service and of the surrounding area it is amazing any of them survived.
What a helpful chatroom this has been.
Angela

[dave the tyke]

St Mary's graveyard looking towards Mabgate (The City of Mabgate Inn is visible through the trees).

[yorkshire grandma]

thank you so much for this photo.Wonderful.

I will make a visit in the Spring and take a walk around the park. I am about 2 hours journey away so worth the drive.

Thanks once again

Angela

[stanmapstone]

On 25th April 1842 a Mr. Robert Baker, of Leeds, gave evidence before a select committee of the House of Commons, which was confirmed by the vicar's churchwarden; showing the number of graves in the three parochial burial grounds belonging to the churches of St. Peter and St. Mary, in the township of Leeds to be 9,600, as follows :
St. Peter's church yard 1,978
St. Peter's new burial ground 3,689
St. Mary's burial ground 3,933
In these graves he stated that there had been interred 142,293 corpses......The new  ground  provided by the town council at Burmantofts, was opened in August, 1845, for the burial of the dead, but owing to a dispute respecting the fees to be paid to the vicar and the clerk in orders but few internments took place therein, and the old grounds continued to be used until the 30th of November 1847, when the bishop of the diocese on the recommendation of the vicar, consented to the closing of those places.
The Annals and History of Leeds, 1860. Google Books

Stan

[dobfarm]

Monumental Inscriptions held by the
Yorkshire Archaeological Society


LEEDS, St Mary CE
MI Two volumes of 446 handwritten records for this Church which was built on Quarry Hill 1823-26 and demolished 1979. Sketch plan only. Includes index.
http://www.yas.org.uk/content/moninsc.html