Leeds (St. James) (York Street)
Leeds & District
7
Burial records
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Inscriptions / photos
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YAS burials
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YAS inscriptions
Location
- Also known as
- Chapel of Ease of St. James
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- Latitude / longitude
- 53.796449, -1.537274
Dates & affiliation
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- Year commenced
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- Year concluded
- 1950
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- Status
- Open
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Notes
This building was in York Street, Leeds City Centre (An image of the church appears in our Gallery section). We discovered records of 412 burials in the Parish Magazine but only seven were actually buried on the premises and the remainder were interred at St Peters, Parish Church.
Registers
1 total| Title | Register | Entries |
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| Vol. 1 - Burials 1829-1842 | 1 | 7 |
Resources
1 total
List of Names of those re-interred at St. John's, Adel
Notes
Adel Church, St. John’s - From the front of the Register:
No 1365 The Chapel of Ease of S James, situated opposite the Markets in the centre of Leeds was closed in 1950. It was no longer required for services and the structure was found to be unsafe. Demolition began in October 1951 and the remains of 43 bodies, buried in the Crypt were gathered into five large wooden chests and reburied in a long trench grave at Adel at 8.0 a.m. on Thursday October 11th. The grave is by the wall of the lane (now called Bk. Church Lane) opposite the Golf Course.
List of Bodies, remains of which have been re-interred in Adel Church Yard, Leeds 6, (sic) from the Crypt of the Church of St. James, Leeds.
No 1365 The Chapel of Ease of S James, situated opposite the Markets in the centre of Leeds was closed in 1950. It was no longer required for services and the structure was found to be unsafe. Demolition began in October 1951 and the remains of 43 bodies, buried in the Crypt were gathered into five large wooden chests and reburied in a long trench grave at Adel at 8.0 a.m. on Thursday October 11th. The grave is by the wall of the lane (now called Bk. Church Lane) opposite the Golf Course.
List of Bodies, remains of which have been re-interred in Adel Church Yard, Leeds 6, (sic) from the Crypt of the Church of St. James, Leeds.