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Museum Street (York)
Museum Street is a road in the city centre of York, in England.
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Museum Street Tavern
The Museum Street Tavern, formerly Thomas's of York, is a historic pub in the city centre of York, in England.
The building which houses the pub was first constructed in about 1700. In about 1800, it became part of Ettridge's Royal Hotel, and at some point in the 1820s, it was heightened from two to three storeys. In 1858, it was bought by William Thomas, an experienced hotelier, who renamed the hotel after himself. The remainder of the old hotel was demolished, and the Museum Street facade of the remaining building was altered, with work completed in 1863. Thomas sold the pub in 1876, to Thomas Lightfoot, a brewer from Bedale, but its name was retained. In 1900, it was purchased by John Smith's Brewery. At the time, it had eight bedrooms, a bar, two drawing rooms, a coffee room and a billiard room.
The building is constructed of dark brown brick. The staircase and some first-floor doors are original, while the fireplaces and some plaster work date from the 1863 alterations. There is late-19th-century stained glass around the wide door, with a colourful design in the tympanum above, incorporating the name "Thomas's Hotel".
The pub was Grade II listed in 1978. By 2022, it was owned by the Stonegate Pub Company, which closed it for conversion into a Be At One cocktail bar. In 2023 it reopened as the Museum Street Tavern.
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Lendal Chapel
The Lendal Chapel, also known as 2 Lendal, is a historic building on Lendal, a street in the city centre of York, in England.
The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion founded a church in York in 1749. A group split away and founded the Grape Lane Chapel in 1781, then in 1796 part of that group split away and founded a chapel on Jubbergate. Many of the worshippers were Congregationalists, and in 1814 the chapel was taken over by the West Riding Itinerant Society, which aimed to consolidate the faith in the region. The group purchased a site on Lendal, and constructed a new church, completed in 1816. The leading figure in the congregation was the architect James Pigott Pritchett, and he designed the new building, which cost more than £3,000. James Parsons was appointed as the pastor, serving for nearly 50 years. The church thrived, and in 1839 the larger Salem Chapel was built on St Saviour's Place, 368 members including Parsons moving to the new church, and 79 remaining at Lendal. This membership stagnated, and there was a rapid turnover of ministers. The building was restored in 1902, but closed in 1929, with the congregation moving to Salem Chapel and then to the New Lendal Congregational Church on Burton Stone Lane. The building was then converted for commercial use, with occupants including shops, a restaurant, and an amusement arcade.
The red brick building has been grade II listed since 1983. It is two storeys high with a basement, and the front is five bays wide, the central three coming further forward and being topped with a pediment. The ground floor is rendered, and is described by Nikolaus Pevsner as "cruelly spoiled". There is a timber cornice, and a pyramidal slate roof. The windows and doors have round heads, and the central main entrance has a hood. At the rear, there is a semicircular apse projecting from the three central bays.
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Judges' Lodgings, York
The Judges' Lodgings is a historic building in York, England. It was used by judges when they attended the sessions of the Assize Courts which were held four times each year in York.
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York Library
York Library (York Explore Library and Archive) is situated in Museum Street, York, England. It became a Grade II listed building in 1997.
York's first subscription library opened in 1794, but it was only in 1893 that the city's first public library was opened in Clifford Street by the then Duke and Duchess of York, in a building formerly occupied by the Institute of Popular Science and Literature. This was the period when free public libraries were supplanting subscription libraries, and the establishment of York's public library was the city's way of marking Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. In 1917 the public library was merged with York Subscription Library.
The present library building on Museum Street was designed by Walter Brierley and opened in 1927. Since then, there have been a number of extensions to the building, most recently in 2014, when the library became home to the City Archives.