Headstones theft at Brontë Chapel

by Paul Wilkinson

Posted: 26 Oct 2012 @ 12:43

THIEVES have pulled up three 150-year-old headstones from a cemetery near St James's, Thornton, in West Yorkshire, the church where the Brontë sisters were baptised.

The highly prized York-stone paving-slabs were pulled up over two nights last week. More than 30 yards of the paving that forms part of the Brontë Way footpath were also lifted, and stone from an adjoining wall was removed. Police described the thefts at the Brontë Bell Chapel, opposite St James's, as ...

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