Prison & Police Museum

The Prison & Police Museum is a museum in Ripon, a city in North Yorkshire, in England. The building housing the museum was constructed in 1685, as a prison. In 1816, it was extended to provide additional cells at the rear, the new work being designed by Thomas de Grey, 2nd Earl de Grey. The top floor and two eastern bays may be of similar date but could be part of the original building. In 1878, the prison closed and the building was instead used to store grain. In 1887, it was purchased by the new West Riding Constabulary, to serve as a police station. This closed in 1958, and it was converted into a private house named Deans Croft. The front part of the building was restored in 1972. The building has been grade II* listed since 1949. In 1984, the building was purchased by Ripon Museums Trust, which converted it into the Prison & Police Museum. The museum was refurbished in 2004. Its collection includes a wide variety of police and prison related objects, such as uniforms and a police box. The building is rendered, and has a floor band and a stone slate roof. There are three storeys and a partial basement, and six bays, and the windows are mullioned. The former cell block is in brown brick with wooden brackets to the eaves, and has two storeys. On both floors are iron-barred windows. Inside, the cell block is brick vaulted and has floors of stone flags. The staircase has an iron balustrade, and there are heavy iron doors with their original locks.

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Diocese of Ripon

The Diocese of Ripon, renamed the Diocese of Ripon and Leeds from 1999 until its amalgamation into the new Diocese of Leeds in 2014, was a former Church of England diocese within the Province of York. Immediately prior to its dissolution, it covered an area in western and northern Yorkshire as well as the south Teesdale area administered by County Durham which is traditionally part of Yorkshire. The cities of Ripon and Leeds were within its boundaries as were the towns of Harrogate, Richmond, Knaresborough, Hawes and Bedale and the surrounding countryside; its northern boundary was the River Tees. The diocesan Bishop of Ripon had his cathedral church at Ripon. The diocese was also served by a suffragan Bishop of Knaresborough and was divided into two archdeaconries, those of Richmond and Leeds. For organizational purposes, the diocese was further divided into eight deaneries: Richmond, Wensley, Ripon, Harrogate, Allerton, Headingley, Armley and Whitkirk. The first four deaneries are located in the Archdeaconry of Richmond, and the latter four are in the Archdeaconry of Leeds. The former Diocese covered an area of 1,359 square miles, with a range of urban and rural parishes, these range from urban areas like Holbeck and Armley with New Wortley, urban centres like Ripon and Richmond and rural parishes like Danby Wiske with Hutton Bonneville in the Vale of Mowbray, Eryholme on the southern bank of the River Tees and Upper Nidderdale high in the Yorkshire Dales.

Old Courthouse, Ripon

The Old Courthouse is a historic building in Ripon, a city in North Yorkshire, in England. The building may be 14th century, although no dateable features have survived. It is possible that it reuses some materials from a former palace of the Archbishop of York. It was used as the courthouse of the Liberty of Ripon. It was later extended to the south, the extension perhaps incorporating an existing timber-framed kitchen block. By the 17th century, its ground floor was used as a gaol, and in the early 19th century it may have been a debtor's prison. It was owned by Ripon Cathedral until the 1950s, when it was sold and converted into a private house. The building was grade II listed in 1949. The building is constructed of stone and has sprocketed pantile roofs. There are two storeys, three bays, and a south extension with a timber framed upper floor. The building contains a blocked round-arched doorway, and an arched doorway in the upper floor approached by external steps with an iron balustrade. The windows are a mix of sashes, casements and one slit window. Inside, the former cells have iron-plated ceilings, and two doors studded with iron.

Ripon Cathedral

The Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Wilfrid, commonly known as Ripon Cathedral, and until 1836 known as Ripon Minster, is a cathedral in Ripon, North Yorkshire, England. Founded as a monastery by monks of the Irish tradition in the 660s, it was refounded as a Benedictine monastery by St Wilfrid in 672. The church became collegiate in the tenth century, and acted as a mother church within the large Diocese of York for the remainder of the Middle Ages. The present church is the fourth, and was built between the 13th and 16th centuries. In 1836 the church became the cathedral for the Diocese of Ripon. In 2014 the Diocese was incorporated into the new Diocese of Leeds, and the church became one of three co-equal cathedrals of the Bishop of Leeds. The cathedral is notable architecturally for its gothic west front in the Early English style, considered one of the best of its type, as well as the Geometric east window. The seventh-century crypt of Wilfrid's church is a significant example of early Christian architecture in England. The cathedral has Grade I listed building status.

Workhouse Museum

The Workhouse Museum is a museum in Ripon, a city in North Yorkshire, in England. In 1776, William Aislabie donated a house known as "Old Hall" for the use of the poor of Ripon. It was demolished and a new workhouse constructed on the site in 1855. In 1877, a block for vagrants was added. In 1953, it was renamed Sharow View, and remained open until 1974. The building was then used as offices for the North Yorkshire Social Services and Probation Services departments. In 1996, Ripon Museums Trust converted the gatehouse into a museum. It restored and opened the garden to the public in 2010, and then in 2017 acquired the main block of the workhouse, more than doubling the size of the museum. The main block and gatehouse are both grade II listed buildings. The main block is built of brown brick, with stone dressings, quoins, and a slate roof with coped gables on cut kneelers. There are two storeys and eleven bays, the middle three bays projecting under two shaped gables with finials. The flanking wings each has one smaller shaped gable with a smaller finial. The central doorway has a four-centred arched head and a projecting surround. The windows are a mix of sashes and casements. The gatehouse is built of red brick with stone dressings, quoins, a moulded string course, and a slate roof with coped gables. There are two storeys and three bays. In the centre is a carriage entry with a four-centred arch flanked by buttresses, above which is an inscribed and dated parapet. Over this is a three-light stepped mullioned window and a shaped gable. The other windows are casements. The main block is flanked by single-storey three-bay wings, the right wing extending towards the road.