John Wormald Appleyard
John Wormald Appleyard (10 September 1831 – 14 January 1894) (active 1851–1893) was a sculptor and monumental mason based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. He was sixteen years old when his apprenticeship as a stone carver was curtailed due to the death of his grandfather who was training him. He was versatile enough to turn his hand to wood carving, decorative ceiling work, stained glass and marble sculpture besides stone carving, so that from around the age of twenty-one years he was able to maintain a stoneyard and studio in Cookridge Street, Leeds, at least until 1891. He was generally known during his lifetime as a monumental mason. He is mainly known today in Leeds for his wooden Jacquemart figures of Robin Hood, Friar Tuck, Richard the Lionheart and the swineherd Gurth, which strik
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John Wormald Appleyard
John Wormald Appleyard (10 September 1831 – 14 January 1894) (active 1851–1893) was a sculptor and monumental mason based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. He was sixteen years old when his apprenticeship as a stone carver was curtailed due to the death of his grandfather who was training him. He was versatile enough to turn his hand to wood carving, decorative ceiling work, stained glass and marble sculpture besides stone carving, so that from around the age of twenty-one years he was able to maintain a stoneyard and studio in Cookridge Street, Leeds, at least until 1891. He was generally known during his lifetime as a monumental mason. He is mainly known today in Leeds for his wooden Jacquemart figures of Robin Hood, Friar Tuck, Richard the Lionheart and the swineherd Gurth, which strik
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sculpture of Appleyard with feather in his cap
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1831-09-10
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School Close, Leeds, England
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John Wormald Appleyard
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by Benjamin Payler, 1878
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1894-01-14
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Apprenticed to Abraham Wormald, stonemason
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Wood and stone carving
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Appleyard window in St John's Church, Farsley
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British
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* Old Father Time, 1872 on Tim ...... 1884, in Leeds Central Library
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Beckett Street Cemetery
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Elizabeth "Eliza" Whiteley
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Theatrical
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