Iris Waterman, 29, climbed down the steeple yesterday and said: "This is Just the Job for a woman who likes excitement and a home life. When rain stops work I catch up on housework and darning.〔 In slacks and wind cheater, her fair hair tied in a red ribbon at the back, Iris is helping her husband Jim, to repair the wooden spire of the thirteenth-century St. Mary's Church at Dilwyn, Herefordshire, Steeple jack Jim married Iris, then a South end waitress, three years ago. On the third day of their honeymoon, Jim, said, "Sorry, dear, I've got an urgent date with a church steeple." February 26, 1954.