Benjamin Burstall
[6][7] They had at least six children, all born in Leeds: Harry Barton (1859–1936),[8][9] Frank Gilbert, (b.1861) who became a telegraph operator and emigrated to Canso, Nova Scotia,[10] Nell Gwynne (1863–1905) who married Edwin Armitage Hobson in 1889,[11][12][13] Victor Hugo (1865–1951),[14][15] Lewis Belgrave (1869–1904),[16][17] and Lauri (b.1870) who emigrated from Liverpool to New York on 17 February 1892, with a Miss Charlotte Copeland, aged 21, who shared the same ticket number.
The east and west windows were by Clayton and Bell of London, and the Caen stone reredos and font were by Burstall and Taylor.
[26][nb 1] This is a Grade II listed building,[27] on Park Mount off Morris Lane, Kirkstall, West Yorkshire.
[27] The church was reopened by the Bishop of Ripon on 17 August 1864, after a renovation by Perkin and Backhouse of Leeds,[29] which created a "very ecclesiastical interior.
In 1864, the Leeds Intelligencer reported the following:[31]"On entering the church, the first thing which attracts attention is the font, which stands permanently in the centre of the aisle at the west end, with ample space all round it.
The bowl is square, having trefoil sunk panels on each side of the alabaster columns, and carved capitals at the angles.
Each face has a sunk niche with red marble shafts and trefoil arched canopy, in which stand in bold relief the four evangelists on moulded pedestals.
The font is placed upon an elevated octagonal foot pace of blue and white stone, with sunk quatrefoil panels on each side, inlaid with various coloured marbles.
[23] (The tower below the spire was) "highly ornamented at the belfry stage, having two windows on each face, with shafts of red stone in deeply recessed jambs, finished by carved caps supporting richly moulded arches and which, with carved strings and bold cornice surmounting the whole, give a very rich effect to this portion of the design ...
The aisles of the chancel are divided from it by double arches with similar bases and caps, and with moulded spandrels ...
The east end has a reredos with red stone shafts, carved caps and moulded arches ...
(York Herald, 29 December 1866)[35]Respecting the "very effective arcade between the nave and aisles, the Yorkshire Architectural Society said in 1867: "with a transition Norman aspect, the details of the caps are well designed from natural foliage, sufficiently but not over-conventionalized.
"[38] A fire broke out under the Brindley & Foster pipe organ, installed in 1875, shortly after 6.00am on Tuesday 13 February 1877, and much was destroyed apart from the outer walls, tower and vestry, which were saved by a "contingent from the barracks", or about a hundred men from the 6th Carabiniers commanded by Colonel Napier.
A steam fire engine and a hundred policemen also arrived from York, but the destruction occurred within one and a half hours.
[48] The hotel, on St Nicholas Cliff in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, was designed by Cuthbert Brodrick and opened on 24 July 1867.
On Sunday 3 February 1867 a labourer named Tranmar was "lifting a large iron tank through one of the windows, when it suddenly slipped, and the unfortunate man was crushed between it and bhe brickwork.
[50] The opening was marked by a banquet for 200 guests including Cuthbert Brodrick and a "Mr Taylor" on 24 July.
[53] The foundation stone of Christchurch Congregational church was laid by the Mayor of Bradford on 27 May 1868 at The Grove, Ilkley; originally on Riddings Road and Green Lane.
At the dinner after the opening ceremony the vice-chairman of the building committee "took objection to the inscriptions which were written round the walls of the Church, and expressed a desire to employ half-a-dozen plasterers to obliterate them."
"The pillars of the arcade are decorated with a diaper pattern in chocolate and orange; the caps are picked out in green, blue, and crimson and gold, and the bases are relieved in similar colours.
[61][nb 5] This is a Grade II* listed building by architects William Hill and his assistant George Woodhouse.
[63] Burstall and Taylor were responsible for the main staircase and portico, the lions either side of the steps, and the general sculpture within and without the building.
This is a Grade II* listed building containing 12th and 14th century masonry in the tower, and a 15th-century king post roof in the chancel.
The carvers of the pulpit are not named, but it was most likely by the same men who carved the reredos:[23][71] "The east end of the church, which before was a sad and painful sight, has been adorned by an exceedingly handsome reredos of Caen stone, after the design of one of the first artists in the country, and executed with much skill by Messrs. Burnstall & Taylor, of Leeds.
