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J. M. W. Turner's 1816 painting of Leeds, from Beeston Hill.At the left-hand edge is Marshall's Mill, in the centre is Trinity Church, and further to the right, through the smoke, is the tower of Leeds Parish Church, now Leeds Minster.
In 1850 Hunt's colleague John Everett Millais had already portrayed Jesus as a budding carpenter, helping his father as a young boy. Millais' painting, Christ in the House of his Parents, had been viciously attacked by critics because of the alleged squalour of the workshop. Hunt repeats many features of Millais's painting, but emphasises Jesus ...
The house is a Grade I listed building, [1] one of nine Leeds Museums and Galleries sites [2] and part of the research group, Yorkshire Country House Partnership. [3] The estate lends its name to the Temple Newsam ward of Leeds City Council, in which it is situated, and lies to the east of the city, just south of Halton Moor, Halton, Whitkirk ...
List of people from Leeds is a list of notable people from the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. This list includes people from the historic settlement , and the wider metropolitan borough , and thus may include people from Horsforth , Morley , Pudsey , Otley and Wetherby and other areas of the city.
Leeds was a manor and township in the large ancient parish of Leeds St Peter, in the Skyrack wapentake of the West Riding of Yorkshire. [39] The Borough of Leeds was created in 1207, when Maurice Paynel, lord of the manor, granted a charter to a small area of the manor, close to the river crossing, in what is now the city centre.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Vesper Road LS5 3NX Mormon: Known as Leeds First Ward. A ward is a local congregation in the LDS Church. [222] Redeemed Christian Church of God 15-17 Walter Street LS4 2BB Pentecostal: Also known as the Everlasting Father's Assembly, and the building as the Land of Mercy. St Stephen's Church ...
The Dead Christ, [1] Hibernia with the bust of Lord Cloncurry [2] John Hogan (14 October 1800 – 27 March 1858) was a sculptor from Tallow , County Waterford in Ireland. Described in some sources as the "greatest of Irish sculptors", [ 3 ] according to the Dictionary of Irish Biography he was responsible for "much of the most significant ...
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has had a presence in the island of Ireland since at least 1840, when the Elder John Taylor first preached in Newry. He and other missionaries converted a number of Irish people, forming a branch in Hillsborough, County Down. Many of the converted Irish saints emigrated in order to escape poverty ...