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[17249] St Bartholomew, Armley : Benjamin Gott
St Bartholomew, Wesley Road, Armley, Leeds, 1872-78.
Monument to Benjamin Gott of Armley House (1762-1840)
By Joseph Gott (1785-1860), 1841.
The monument was shipped over from Joseph Gott's studios in Rome.
Endowed with talents to dignify every relation of life he maintained with inflexible uprightness the character of a merchant with impartial justice the office of a magistrate, and the unshaken confidence the warmth of friendship. He was always ready to promote the welfare of the town of Leeds and the advocates of its literary scientific charitable institutions found in him a judicious advisor and generous patron under the gifts of health prosperity and length of days. He exhibited the powers of divine courage in the pure benevolent and holy principle by which he sought to share his conduct and relying for salvation only on the merits of his redeemer. He calmly resigned his soul into the hands of a merciful creator on the 14th February in the 78th Year of his age. His remains are interred in a vault in this church.
This memorial was moved to here in 1890 from the old chapel which used to be in the present churchyard.
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Joseph Gott was the son of Benjamin Gott, a woollen manufacturer from Leeds. Joseph was apprenticed to John Flaxman between 1798 and 1802, he then entered the Royal Academy Schools in March 1805.
In 1822 Gott was sent to Rome on a pension from the painter Sir Thomas Lawrence, who also introduced him to Antonio Canova. Initially Gott was very successful, receiving numerous commissions from English visitors to Rome. He was particularly known for his terracotta groups and sensitive sculptures of children and animals.
However from 1838, Gott's practice went into decline following a cholera epidemic that stopped the flow of tourists. He also lost his children and his wife's memory was permanently damaged by the disease. Gott ceased making new work around 1845 and died in Rome in 1860.
[17249] St Bartholomew, Armley : Benjamin Gott
St Bartholomew, Wesley Road, Armley, Leeds, 1872-78.
Monument to Benjamin Gott of Armley House (1762-1840)
By Joseph Gott (1785-1860), 1841.
The monument was shipped over from Joseph Gott's studios in Rome.
Endowed with talents to dignify every relation of life he maintained with inflexible uprightness the character of a merchant with impartial justice the office of a magistrate, and the unshaken confidence the warmth of friendship. He was always ready to promote the welfare of the town of Leeds and the advocates of its literary scientific charitable institutions found in him a judicious advisor and generous patron under the gifts of health prosperity and length of days. He exhibited the powers of divine courage in the pure benevolent and holy principle by which he sought to share his conduct and relying for salvation only on the merits of his redeemer. He calmly resigned his soul into the hands of a merciful creator on the 14th February in the 78th Year of his age. His remains are interred in a vault in this church.
This memorial was moved to here in 1890 from the old chapel which used to be in the present churchyard.
www.leodis.net/discovery/discovery.asp?page=2003219_34885...
Joseph Gott was the son of Benjamin Gott, a woollen manufacturer from Leeds. Joseph was apprenticed to John Flaxman between 1798 and 1802, he then entered the Royal Academy Schools in March 1805.
In 1822 Gott was sent to Rome on a pension from the painter Sir Thomas Lawrence, who also introduced him to Antonio Canova. Initially Gott was very successful, receiving numerous commissions from English visitors to Rome. He was particularly known for his terracotta groups and sensitive sculptures of children and animals.
However from 1838, Gott's practice went into decline following a cholera epidemic that stopped the flow of tourists. He also lost his children and his wife's memory was permanently damaged by the disease. Gott ceased making new work around 1845 and died in Rome in 1860.