Banks Hill Wesleyan Methodist Chapelyard
Also known as Chapel Hill Burial Ground
Morley, Metropolitan Borough of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
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"This graveyard is to be found at the top of Chapel Hill and belonged to the chapel after which the hill was named. This was Morley New Old Chapel (sometimes referred to as Morley Old New Chapel), a breakaway group from the Old Chapel who erected their building about 1760, on land leased from the Earl of Dartmouth, the Lord of the Manor.
At the time Morley Parish Church was built in 1830, the Earl was a supporter of the Anglican Church and he decided to put up the rent for the Chapel Hill site from a shilling a year to fifty pounds per year. The congregation refused to tolerate this and made arrangements for a new chapel to be built in its place. This was the Rehoboth Independent Chapel on Dawson Hill, which opened in 1834.
The Chapel Hill graveyard was then abandoned so that the most recent grave to be found here cannot be later than 1834. It is thought that some remains were moved from here when partners buried here joined their husbands/wives in the Rehoboth Indpenedent Chapel graveyard.
In the 1980s this Chapel Hill graveyard became very overgrown and in order to keep it tidy the Groundwork Trust removed most of the slabs to the edges."
"This graveyard is to be found at the top of Chapel Hill and belonged to the chapel after which the hill was named. This was Morley New Old Chapel (sometimes referred to as Morley Old New Chapel), a breakaway group from the Old Chapel who erected their building about 1760, on land leased from the Earl of Dartmouth, the Lord of the Manor.
At the time Morley Parish Church was built in 1830, the Earl was a supporter of the Anglican Church and he decided to put up the rent for the Chapel Hill site from a shilling a year to fifty pounds per year. The congregation refused to tolerate this and made arrangements for a new chapel to be built in its place. This was the Rehoboth Independent Chapel on Dawson Hill, which opened in 1834.
The Chapel Hill graveyard was then abandoned so that the most recent grave to be found here cannot be later than 1834. It is thought that some remains were moved from here when partners buried here joined their husbands/wives in the Rehoboth Indpenedent Chapel graveyard.
In the 1980s this Chapel Hill graveyard became very overgrown and in order to keep it tidy the Groundwork Trust removed most of the slabs to the edges."
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- Added: 10 Mar 2012
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2440980
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