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Castlegate (York)
Castlegate is a historic street in York, England, which leads to York Castle.
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St Mary's Church, Castlegate, York
St Mary's Church, Castlegate, York is a Grade I listed former parish church in the Church of England in York.
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Castlegate House
Castlegate House is a Georgian Grade I listed building in central York, in England.
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Fairfax House
Fairfax House is a Georgian townhouse located at No. 27, Castlegate, York, England, near Clifford's Tower and York Castle Museum. It was probably built in the early 1740s for a local merchant and in 1759 it was purchased by Charles Gregory Fairfax, 9th Viscount Fairfax of Emley, who arranged for the interior to be remodelled by John Carr. Fairfax was the widower of heiress Elizabeth Clifford, daughter of Hugh Clifford, 2nd Baron Clifford of Chudleigh: his inheritance from her death enabled him to purchase the house, which he intended as a home for his daughter from his first marriage, Ann Fairfax.
After the Viscount's death in 1772, the house was sold and subsequently passed through a number of local families before spending some time as a Gentleman's Club, a Building Society and a cinema. The property was bought by York Civic Trust in the 1980s and completely restored to its former grandeur. Fairfax House is now a museum open to the public and a Grade I listed building.
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Friargate Quaker Meeting House
Friargate Quaker Meeting House is a religious building in the city centre of York, in England.
Quakers first met in York in the 1650s, and in 1674 they converted a house on what is now Friargate for use as a meeting house. In 1718, a larger site to its east was purchased, and a larger meeting house was constructed, with a capacity of 800 to 1000 worshippers, while the original meeting house was extended and converted into a meeting room for women. In 1817, Charles Watson and James Pigott Pritchett designed an extension, including a new meeting room, library, committee room, strong room and toilets.
In 1884, the original building was demolished, and William Thorp designed a further extension to the meeting house, providing a main entrance onto the newly constructed Clifford Street, a small meeting room, school room, lecture room, two committee rooms, a library, cloakrooms, and accommodation for a caretaker. The old entrance onto Friargate was closed in 1891. In the early 20th century, land at the rear of the meeting house was purchased, for use as a garden.
Although the meeting house of 1817 was grade II listed, in 1979 it was found to be structurally unsafe, and was demolished. Part of the 1884 building was sold off, and later converted into housing. Jones, Stocks and Partners designed a replacement meeting house on the site of the 1817 building, which was completed in 1981. Between 2013 and 2015, the new meeting house was extended, adding an upper storey and a rear turret.
The building is constructed of red brick and is two storeys high at the front, three at the rear. At the front is a canopy, supported by cast iron columns, reused from the 1817 building. At the rear, there is a two-storey turret, in brick with boarding above. Inside, the ground floor comprises a foyer, main meeting room, two smaller rooms, kitchen, library, quiet room and toilets. The main meeting room, originally built as the women's meeting room, has oak panelling, a suspended ceiling, and 19th-century pine benches. The lower ground floor has further meeting rooms and an archives room. The meeting house lies on part of the site of York Franciscan Friary, with a section of its wall being visible in the Woolman Room. On the first floor are four additional meeting rooms.