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Report - Mount St. Marys Church, Leeds - October 2015

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BrainL

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The Visit
Having just been to a totally stripped out and boring Leeds girls we headed over to this huge church!! Access to this place was one of the trickiest and certainly tightest I've tried in a long time... once inside its well worth it though, only the stone walls and carvings remain but the scale of this place is immense!

The History
Mount St Mary's is one of the architectural treasures of the city of Leeds. It is a grade two listed building dating from 1853. The laying of the foundation stone was an act of faith in itself as the founders of the church, the missionary order of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate had little idea as to where the money was to be found to complete the building. The church stands high on the crest of Richmond Hill and can be seen from many parts of the city. The slope below the church had been known for hundreds of years as 'the Bank'.

For many, Mount St Mary's is the Famine Church, the original chapel was established at a time when Ireland was only beginning to recover from the Great Hunger brought on by the failure of the potato crop in successive years from 1845 to 1851. Hundreds of families, many of them suffering from the effects of starvation and 'famine fever, found some in what became Mount St Mary's parish.

The story of how the church came to be established in the first place, on the initiative of men from the neighbouring St Saviour's Anglican church who were received into the Roman Catholic Church is more than just a footnote in English Church history. These were the people who persuaded the Oblates of Mary Immaculate to establish a chapel in Richmond Street, the Bank.

It is impossible to calculate the contribution that Mount St Mary's made in creating a community out of the mass of desperate refugees who found themselves living on the Bank or in other parts of the parish. It was not just the ministrations of the clergy that went to forge this new community. It was the work carried out in caring for the sick and the poor, the setting up of the schools and the orphanage. Most of the latter work being carried out by the Sisters of the Holy Family. One must not forget either, the sodalities and societies within the parish that did so much to bind the community together. Despite the widespread poverty and deprivation that persisted so long, it became a community with a strong identity and contributed so much to the development of the city of Leeds

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BrainL

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Leeds isnt chester d00d
This is going to sound insane but as I was typing the title my cat Chester jumped on my laptop and then I must have had his name in my head and typed Chester after it... had to message an admin quickly but seems some people spotted it :) I think, I'm going a little bonkers lol
 

BoroLad

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My eyes are burning!!!
Nice report but calm down on the over editing...
 

BrainL

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I give up with this forum. I thought it was about exploring and not ripping into people's photos and editing. I've had a camera for about six months and far from a professional. I don't get arsey remarks like this on photography forums... Saying your eyes are burning isn't constructive in any way, if you know better then please offer advice but why he so cocky and arsey about it mate?
 

Oxygen Thief

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Pictures are OK I think. Maybe the first one 'looks dodgy' like a black & white HDR but I think that's down to the stains on the wall anyway.
 

ledgehammer

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nice one for getting in, and getting a report up - place was sealed up when we went, after clambering over two fences ;-)

"Having just been to a totally stripped out and boring Leeds girls" , they're not that bad ;-)
 

BrainL

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B&W one isn't the best I agree, pretty dark and yeah the walls don't look too good.

It was a bugger to get in here, I was worried I'd never get out again the route I took getting in haha

Well spotted on the Leeds girls, that's quite a key word to miss out isn't it haha. :)
 
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