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Temple Newsam is a ward in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It contains 51 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, three are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The ward is to the east of the centre of ...
Temple Newsam (historically Temple Newsham), is a Tudor-Jacobean house in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, with grounds landscaped by Capability Brown. 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 .
The site was south of the current Temple Newsam House, between Pontefract Lane and the River Aire. The site may be found on pre-1991 maps as Temple Thorpe Farm, which it overlapped to the south, and is now a few yards to the south-east of junction 45 on the M1 motorway. Any archaeological remains are now entirely destroyed by open cast mining.
Emily Charlotte Meynell-Ingram died in 1904 at Temple Newsam House, her funeral was held at Hoar Cross Hall and was buried next to her husband at Hoar Cross Holy Angels Church. [4] Since she and Hugo did not have any children, the Meynell-Ingram estates and wealth were passed down to her nephew.
Frances Gibson Shepheard Ingram (1734-1807), Viscountes Ingram, was a wealthy heiress and landowner who was instrumental in the design of the landscape at Temple Newsam, Leeds. Lady Ingram was the illegitimate daughter of the rich Tory merchant, Samuel Shepheard ; her mother was called Gibson. [ 1 ]
Temple Newsam House, Yorkshire – Jacobean long gallery, later modified and now called the picture gallery Welbeck Abbey Windsor Castle – Elizabethan long gallery; later converted by William IV , along with adjacent rooms, to house the Royal Library
Leeds Museums & Galleries began life as the museum of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, which opened in 1821.In 1921, the collection was purchased by Leeds Corporation, to continue as a municipal museum (Leeds City Museum). [7]
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