St Peter's Church, Scarborough
St Peter's Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. It was built from 1856 to 1858 and designed by George Goldie in the Gothic Revival style. It is located on the corner of Castle Road and Tollergate in the town centre. It is a Grade II listed building.
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Wilson's Mariners' Homes
Wilson's Mariners' Homes is a historic building in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, a town in England.
The building was constructed in 1836, as the Mariners' Asylum. They are named for Richard Wilson, who provided their endowment, and were designed by John Barry in the neo-Gothic style. They initially comprised 14 almshouses, but were extended to the west in 1922. The building was grade II listed in 1953.
The range of houses is built of rendered brick on a stone base, with a stone cornice, a coped parapet and a slate roof. It has a single storey and 12 bays, the middle three and the end bays projecting slightly with coped gables. The windows have flat heads and three lights, each with an ogee cusped head, and hood moulds. The doorways have fanlights with similar heads. The 1922 extension is in red brick and has two storeys.
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32 Queen Street
32 Queen Street is a historic building in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, a town in England.
The house was constructed shortly before 1800, on Queen Street in the centre of Scarborough. Iron railings were added to the front in the 19th century. The building was grade II* listed in 1953. Historic England notes that it forms part of a group with 6, 7 and 8 to 13 Queen Street.
The house is built of red brick with a bracketed moulded cornice and a slate roof. There are three storeys and a basement, and three bays. Steps lead up to the entrance in the right bay, with Ionic engaged columns, an entablature with a reeded-fluted frieze, a moulded dentilled cornice, and a triangular pediment. The doorway has panelled reveals, and a semicircular fanlight, and is deeply recessed in a lobby, that has intersecting barrel vaulted ceiling, and an arched opening to the front with a moulded architrave and imposts. The windows are sashes, those on the ground floor with architraves, panelled aprons, and flat gauged brick arches. The basement contains a doorway and a horizontally sliding sash window. The steps and basement area have wrought iron railings with turned baluster standards, and small urn finials.
Inside, the house retains many original features, including plasterwork in the ground floor front room, Adam-style fireplaces throughout, mahogany doors, and an open string staircase.
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Scarborough Town Wall
The Scarborough Town Wall was a fortification surrounding Scarborough, North Yorkshire, a town in England.
The borough of Scarborough was founded in the 12th century. A wall was built on the landward side of the town, from the a ditch at junction of Auborough and Cross Street, to the sea. It was then continued along what is now Eastborough, either as a wall or a wooden palisade. This ran partly along the line of the cliff and terminated at the castle. A ditch was dug outside the wall.
The defences were first recorded in 1225, when the town was granted forty oak trees and three years of tolls on shipping to maintain them. In 1283/4, the monks of Blackfriars applied to demolish the wall, but this was opposed by the town burgesses, and the wall was instead maintain into the 14th century. Houses were then built up against the wall, and it was gradually removed to provide stone for new construction elsewhere.
Perhaps in the late 15th century, a wall was constructed further west, and this was maintained into the 16th century, with substantial foundations still visible at the end of the 18th century. The gate on Auborough, which John Leland described as "very base", was demolished at an early date, but the gate on Newborough which Leland called "meatley good", survived until 1843. That year, it was demolished and replaced by a new gate in a neo-Gothic style, but this was demolished in 1890.
Two small, curved, sections of wall survive off St Thomas Street. They date from the 15th century, were added to in the 17th century, and repaired in the 19th century. They are built of stone surmounted by brick, and are rendered. Both sections have buttresses and they are jointly grade II listed. The ditch is not visible, but excavations near St Mary's Parish House showed it to be 9 metres wide and up to 4.4 metres deep.
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St Mary's Church, Scarborough
St Mary's Church is a parish church in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, in the Church of England. It stands high above the old town, just below Scarborough Castle.
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