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York [ jɔʁk] (en anglais : [ jɔːk]) est une ville du Nord de l'Angleterre. Située au confluent de deux rivières, l'Ouse et la Foss, elle donne son nom au comté du Yorkshire. Fondée par les Romains sous le nom d'Eboracum, elle est l'une des villes majeures du royaume anglo-saxon de Northumbrie, puis la capitale du royaume viking de Jórvík. Elle est également le siège d'un archevêché de l'Église d'Angleterre. Depuis 1996, la ville d'York forme une autorité unitaire distincte du Yorkshire, dont la population était estimée à 257 342 habitants en 2016. La ville possède également le statut de cité, et abrite une université de réputation nationale et internationale. Malgré son importance historique, depuis la Révolution Industrielle, d'autres villes au sein du Yorkshire (comme Leeds ou Sheffield) comptent bien plus d'habitants et ont davantage de poids économique.
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Southlands Methodist Church
Southlands Methodist Church is a Victorian Methodist church near Bishopthorpe Road in York, England.
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St Clement's Church, York
St Clement's Church is a parish church on Scarcroft Road, south-west of the city centre of York, in England.
There was a mediaeval church dedicated to Saint Clement, lying outside the York city walls, which gave its name to the suburb of Clementhorpe. In 1130, the Benedictine Nunnery of St Clement was founded, and the church was later recorded as forming part of the nunnery complex. The nunnery was dissolved in 1536 (although nuns were briefly reinstated during the Pilgrimage of Grace), but the church remained in use until 1585, when its parish was merged into St Mary Bishophill Senior. The church fell into ruin, and in 1745 the remaining stone from the church was removed and used to repair the walls.
There was much construction in the area in the 19th century, and a new church was constructed as a chapel of ease to St Mary, on a site on Scarcroft Road. It was designed by J. B. and W. Atkinson, and was constructed from 1872 to 1874. In 1876, it was given its own parish. A vestry was added in 1880. St Mary was demolished in 1963, and many of its fixtures were relocated to St Clement, including monuments and boards, two of which record the terms of John Carr as Lord Mayor of York. The church was Grade II listed in 2000.
The church is constructed of red brick, with stone dressings and plinth and dark brick bands. It has angled buttresses, and a steep slate roof covering both nave and chancel, topped by a small bellcote. The nave has side aisles, and the east end is in the form of an apse. The windows are lancets, those at the east and west ends having three lights, with two-light windows either side. The stained glass in the east window was designed by Jean-Baptiste Capronnier in 1875. Inside, the arcades are of brick, with stone piers and detailed stone capitals. There is a circular stone font, and an octagonal stone pulpit. The choir stalls and screen are later, and were designed by Robert Thompson.
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The Swan, York
The Swan is a Grade II listed historic pub, immediately south-west of the city centre of York, in England.
It was built as a beer house and grocery in 1861, at the end of a terrace on Bishopgate Street, the northern extension of Bishopthorpe Road. In 1899 it was purchased by the Joshua Tetley's & Son brewery, which in 1936 decided to remodel it. The redesign was executed by the Leeds architecture firm Kitson, Parish, Ledgard and Pyman, and it survives largely intact.
The design centres on a large drinking lobby, with two rooms leading off, the public bar to the front and the grander smoke room to the rear. Each has a hatch for bar service. There is a hatch from the servery to Clementhorpe, which was used for take-out sales, but is no longer in use. At the rear of the pub, there are stairs up to first-floor accommodation, and down to the cellar.
Surviving features from the 1936 redesign include the fitted seats, terrazzo floor, bell pushes, and toilets. It was made a Tetley's heritage pub in 1985 and was listed in 2010 following a campaign by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA). That organisation describes the pub as "one of the best preserved interiors of its kind in the country".
In 2009, CAMRA named The Swan its York Pub of the Year. By 2017, it was owned by Punch Taverns. That year, the landlord used the Pubs Code Regulations 2016 to move from being a tied house to operating on a market rent-only basis. In 2020, the pub was one of 14 in the city to appear in the Good Beer Guide.
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Rowntree Park
Rowntree Park is a 20-acre (8.1 ha) park in York, England, open to the public, opened on 16 July 1921.
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Pikeing Well
The Pikeing Well, occasionally known as Lady Well, is a well in the city of York, in England.
The well lies on New Walk, which runs along the east bank of the River Ouse, Yorkshire, running south from the city centre. The walk was laid out in the 1730s, as an attraction for visitors to the city. By the 1750s, mineral water spas were popular places to visit. York did not have mineral water springs, so the city council instead decided to commission a decorative wellhead over an existing well. It claimed that the water was useful for healing illness related to the eye.
The wellhead was designed by John Carr, its form inspired by grottos. He reused Mediaeval stonework, which is sometimes said to have come from the chancel of All Saints' Church, but must have come from another source, as the chancel was not demolished until 1782. The commission was for £88 13 shillings, but Carr's fee was reduced by £25 in exchange for granting him the Freedom of the City.
The building is small and rectangular, with a semicircular niche at the rear, and a round-headed door facing the river. It is built of a mixture of limestone and sandstone. There is a parapet, which incorporates a broken 12th-century capital. There is a barrel roof, now covered in asphalt. Inside, the floor is covered in flagstones, and in the centre is a stone-lined pool, with steps down to it.
The well was closed by the Ministry of Health in 1929, at which time, an iron gate was placed over the pool. The building was Grade II* listed in 1954, and it was restored in 2000.