York and environs (Yorkshire) (original) (raw)

The County of Yorkshire

• Boundaries of the county
• Geography, Geology, and Rivers
• Agriculture and Manufacturing in the 1850s
• William “Strata” Smith’s analysis of the county’s geology (1815)
• The Yorkshire Dales in Victorian times (sitemap)
• Bank for the York Union Banking Company, Driffield, Yorkshire, East Riding
• Heworth Methodist Church
• Town Hall, Easingwold
• Fountain, Easingwold
• Market Cross, Easingwold

York

• Introduction
• History
• Principal buildings
• Manufacturing and Commerce in the 1850s
• George Hudson of York, the Railway King
• Formation of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society

York Minster

• Exterior
• Viewed from the medieval city walls
• Interior
• The Minster and Chapterhouse in the rain
• The Chapter House
• An older photograph of the Chapter House ceiling

City Walls and the River Ouse

• Staircase to the ramparts
• Along the medieval city walls
• Medieval fortifications and the River Ouse
• Two views of the River Ouse and Guildhall
• Arches cut through the walls in Victorian times

York Castle

• Exterior
• Interior seen from above
• Interior

The Old City

• The ruins of St Mary's Abbey
• Exhibition Building for York's 1866 Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition

York and Its Environs Today

• A Rainy Day in York
• Blossoming Trees and Flowers — Three Photographs of York on a Sunny April Day
• The City Art Gallery, Exhibition Square
• De Grey Rooms
• Club Chambers, Museum Street
• The (former) Drill Hall, St Andrewgate
• The (former) York Dispensary and solicitors' offices, Duncombe Place
• Barclays Bank, High Ousegate and Parliament Street
• The (former) Yorkshire Club, Museum Street
• Museum Lodge, Museum Street
• Drinking Fountain, Museum Street
• The (former) York Institute of Art, Science and Literature, Clifford Street
• Magistrates' Court, Clifford Street
• Tall, narrow blocks on Clifford Street
• (Former) façade of the Friends' Meeting House, Clifford Street
• York Chambers and the Grand Opera House, Clifford Street
• 19 Clifford Street (Crombie and Wilkinson Solicitors)
• Lady Hewley's Almshouses, St Saviourgate
• "The Sycamores"
• Meeting rooms for the Centenary Methodist Church, St Saviourgate, York
• (Former) Nurses' Home, York
• Heworth Grange, York
• 22 Parliament Street, York
• (Former) Trinity Chapel, Peckitt Street, York
• (Former) York County Hospital
• Heworth Croft
• Gray's Court
• (Former) York Union Workhouse
• (Former) Institute of Popular Science and Literature
• Nos. 35-41, Micklegate
• Nos. 2 and 4 Museum Street
• 6 Spurriergate
• Varvil's Warehouse, Queen's Staith
• Nos. 1 and 3 Nessgate
• Nos. 62 and 64, Low Petergate
• Dean Court Hotel, Duncombe Place
• Duncombe Place, York (Victorian redevelopment of)
• Masonic Hall, Duncombe Place
• (Former) City Probate Office, York
• Plaque and Memorial to John Snow, York
• 1 Museum Street, York
• Public Houses in Walmgate, York
• Pre-Nineteenth-Century Public Houses (excluding Walmgate) in York
• Nineteenth-Century Coaching Houses and Inns in York
• Pubs in York converted to other uses
• Lendal Bridge
• York Cemetery
• St Peter's School, Clifton, York
• (Former) Freer Family Butcher, Commercial Street, Norton,
• De Grey Rooms, St Leonard's Place, York
• (Former) Railway Station, Pocklington, with train shed and railway workers cottages
• 31 Castlegate, York (Andrews's office)
• Expansion of the York County Gaol (since demolished)
• Former Poor School added to the Bar Convent, Blossom Street, York
• Former Fire Station in St Andrewgate, York
• Former Yorkshire Insurance Company building, St Helen's Square, York
• York's First Stone Station
• First Station Hotel
• The Yorkshire Museum
• The Yorkshire Museum (interior)
• Manor Cottage, Henry Baines's House at the Yorkshire Museum
• Tempest Anderson Hall at the Yorkshire Musuem
• The York Observatory
• Museum Gardens, York
• The Conservation of St Mary's Abbey's Ruins in the Yorkshire Museum's Grounds
• Scoria Bricks in the Back Alleys of York

Bibliography

Knowles, John Ward. Stonegate. KNO-6-14. Archives of York Explore Library. Probably written c.1925.

_____. York Artists. Vol 2. KNO-3-6. See pp. 33-34, 35/91 on Edward Taylor. Archives of York Explore Library. Probably written c.1925.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, and David Neave. Yorkshire: York and the East Riding. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002.

Taylor, Jeremy. "The Yorkshire Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition Building 1879: Designing for an Historic Setting in York." Architectural History 27 (1984): 356-67. Accessed via Jstor. 1 July 2020.

Web Resources

• Blackie, Walker Graham. The Imperial Gazetteer: A General Dictionary of Geography, Physical, Political, Statistical and Descriptive. 4 vols. London: Blackie & Son, 1856. Internet Archive online version of a copy in the University of California Library. Web. 26 April 2019.
• The Cathedral's own excellent site, which includes a detailed history, tour, and bibliography
• Panoramic 360º views of York
• York Directory, 1885. University of Leicester Special Collections Online. Web. 1 July 2020.

Last modified 3 February 2025