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Description: | May 1994.
Image shows one of the many tombstone slabs in the churchyard of St. Mary's-in-the-wood that are considered worthy of being listed monuments. Several reasons give rise to this - eg. uniqueness of the design; preservation of the design; importance of the personality commemorated and groupings of family blocks. This tombstone was found somewhat broken up in May 1994 and commemorates Dorothy Waller, the daughter of the celebrated poet Edmund Waller of Beaconsfield. It is thought that he bought Yew Tree House on Banks Hill, Morley, for her because she was unable to live at the court of Charles ll due to a debilitating deformity of the spine. She lived there until her death in 1717. She bequeathed the house to Timothy Aldred, the Minister who lived there for about fifty years. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | Edmund Waller St. Mary's-in-the-wood Banks Hill Yew Tree House | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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