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The Old Deanery Built in the early 17thC as the residence of the Dean of Ripon, on the site of the medieval Bedern of College of the Vicars Choral, this fine building was much altered in the 18th and 19thC, and ceased to be the Deanery in 1941. Sixty years on, it has been completely restored but modernised for commercial use.
Old Deanery, Ripon, United Kingdom
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The City Club This was Jepson's Hospital, a "Bluecoat School" for poor boys of Ripon, endowed by Zacarias Jepson in 1672. The school, rebuilt in 1878, was closed in 1927 and the foundation changed to an educational trust.
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The Old Courthouse A Church Courthouse in the Middle Ages, this building served in the 18th century as the Gaol for the Liberty of Ripon, and in the 19th century as a Debtors Prison.
Old Courthouse, Ripon, United Kingdom
Ripon Liberty Courthouse From Anglo-Saxon times to 1888 Ripon had its own independent system for maintaining law and order, the Ripon Liberty. Its courthouse stood on this site, within the Archbishop of York's summer palace. This was replaced in 1830 by the present building which housed the Quarter and Petty Sessions and later the Magistrates Court. After this closed in 1998 the original building became a museum.
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An entrance to the Archbishop of York's palace in the Middle Ages, this ancient gateway was later used by coaches entering the Unicorn stableyard
Court Terrace, Ripon, United Kingdom
Borough Police Station This building served as the Town (Council) House (1835-1851) and the Borough Police Station (1875-1887). A rear extension housed four police cells and below these, with access from Duck Hill, was kept the Borough Fire Engine. The earlier Ripon Lock-up (1836-1876) was a cell below the pavement, still accessible from Duck Hill.
No.5a Kirkgate, Ripon, United Kingdom
Former site of Ripon Railway Station opened 1848 on the Leeds-Thirsk line closed Sept 1969
Station Drive, Ripon, United Kingdom
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No 37 Market Place On this site once stood the home of Hugh Ripley, the last Wakeman (1604) and the first Mayor of Ripon (1605). In the 1730s the celebrated architect Sir William Chambers spent his boyhood here. It was the main Post Office from 1860 to 1906 and later for about 30 years it became the popular Lawrence Restaurant and Ballroom.
37 Market Place, Ripon, United Kingdom
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The Treaty of Ripon. Near this site once stood Nunwick Prebend House where in October 1640, when Charles I had been ruling without a Parliament for 11 years, the Treaty of Ripon was signed. This Treaty, between the King and the Scottish Covenaters, resulted in calling the "Long Parliament", which substantially curtailed the powers of the English Monarchy.
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Prison and police station. This grim cell block was added to the House of Correction in 1816. It was designed by Thomas de Grey, 3rd Lord Grantham, of Newby Hall. From 1834 he was the first President of the Royal Institute of British Architects. The building served as a West Riding Constabulary Police Station from 1887 to 1958.
St Marygate, Ripon, United Kingdom
Ripon Spa Baths. Built to mark the tercentary of Ripon's 1604 Charter, this was the last English spa to be opened, by Princess Henry of Battenburg in 1905. Spa water was pumped four miles from Aldfield. In the 1930s a swimming pool was added. The elaborately tiled entrance hall still retains its (now dry) pump basin from which patrons would be served the waters.
Park Street, Ripon, United Kingdom
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Thorpe Prebend House. Restored 1609. King James I slept here 1617.
High Saint Agnesgate, Ripon, United Kingdom
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The Unicorn Hotel. This ancient coaching inn was much used for meetings and entertainments in Georgian times, and was later patronised by Edward VII when Prince of Wales. One landlord, Robert Collinson, was four times Mayor (1876-80).
Unicorn Hotel, Ripon, United Kingdom
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The Town Hall This building, housing public assembly and reading rooms, was designed by James Wyatt in 1798. The Corporation met here in the 19th century and in 1897 the Marquess of Ripon gave it to the City as the Town Hall.
Town Hall, Ripon, United Kingdom
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Cabmen's Shelter This rare shelter by Boulton & Paul of Norwich was provided in 1911 through a legacy of £200 by Sarah Carter, a former Mayor's daughter, for use by cabmen waiting for fares in the Market Place. By 1982, when acquired by Cllr R Simpson and passed on to this Society, it was badly decayed and has twice since been extensively restored. In 1999 this Society gave it back to Ripon City Council.
Market Place, Ripon, United Kingdom
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Theatre Royal. This wall is most of what remains of the 320-seat Theatre Royal, opened on 20th August 1792 by Samuel Butler's touring company, which included Edmund Kean among its actors. Another famous actor, George Bennett, was born nearby in 1800. The building, later a military riding school and a drill hall, was mostly destroyed by fire in 1918.
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The poet Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) lived and wrote here from March to June 1918 whilst based at the Ripon Army Camp.
24 Borrage Lane, Ripon, United Kingdom
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Cathedral Hall. Here stood the medieval school which became the Free Grammar School of Queen Mary by charter in 1555 and was transferred to premises in Bishopton in 1874.
Cathedral Hall, Ripon, United Kingdom
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The Old Hall. This fine house of 1738, on the site of one of the medieval prebendal houses, served as Canon's Residence from 1841 to 1858. Between 1852 and 1858 Revd. Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) stayed for some weeks of each year, and in 1855 wrote "Ye Carpette Knyghte", one of his humorous poems, and in 1858 "Legend of Scotland", a story for the Bishop's childresn.
The Old Hall, Minster Road, Ripon, United Kingdom
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St Agnes Lodge This late medieval manor house (with its raised cruck roof) was adapted to its present form in the late 17th century when the unusual round windows (possibly to reflect those of the Chapter House) were inserted and the rear wing was added.
St Agnes Lodge, Ripon, United Kingdom
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The Rising of the North In November 1569, hundreds of rebels assembled in this Market Place with the aim of re-establishing Catholic worship in the North. They swiftly captured Barnard Castle on the River Tees and widely reinstated the Mass, but by January the rebellion had failed and great numbers had been hanged here and elsewhere as traitors.
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No.27 Market Place This building, whose frontage was rebuilt in replica in 1975, was an ancient burgage property (at one time the York Minster Inn and later the Victoria Cafe), from which the roof timbers in the adjacent passage have been preserved.
27 Market Place, Ripon, United Kingdom
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The Spa Park Maze The Maze was recreated in 2001 by The Rotary Club of Ripon Rowels, with a millstone at its centre. The design is based on the well-documented ancient turf maze on High Common which was destroyed about 1827 after Enclosure. In ancient times the Maze was called 'The Maiden's Bower' and was probably associated with fertility rites.
Park Street, Ripon, United Kingdom
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Sharow Cross. This cross which belongs to the National Trust was set up in the middle ages to mark the limit of "Sanctuary," a privilege which fugitives enjoyed who came within a mile of St. Wilfrid's Monastery. In the Thirteenth Century there were eight of these crosses around Ripon but only this one now remains. The public are asked to protect so interesting a relic from damage or injury.
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The Celtic Monastery. St Cuthbert was a monk at the Celtic monastery founded hereabouts by an Anglo-Saxon prince of Northumbria c.AD 660. When St Wilfrid became abbot a few years later he introduced the Roman tradition of worship and the Celtic monks departed. Ailey Hill, the wooded mound seen in the distance, became a monastic burial ground.
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The Dissenters' Graveyard. An independent chapel ('The Temple') stood here from 1818 to 1871. After a long period of neglect the site was made into a leisure garden for the people of Ripon in the Festival Year of 1986.
Temple Garden off Allhallowgate, Ripon, United Kingdom
Ripon Union Workhouse These impressive buildings were home to the poor and destitute of the city and surrounding parishes before the Welfare State. Replacing an earlier poor house, construction began in 1854 to the designs of Perkin and Backhouse of Leeds. Male and female paupers were separately housed within the main block. From the 1870s vagrants were accommodated in the gatehouse wings.
Allhallowgate, Ripon, United Kingdom
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Victoria Clock Tower. Built to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee of 1897 and paid for by two sisters, the Misses Cross, the Clock Tower was formally in-augurated in June 1898 in the presence of the Mayor, the Bishop, the City Band and many others. It no doubt proved very useful to railway passengers hurrying along North Road to catch their trains.
North Road at the junction with Palace Road, Ripon, United Kingdom
John Richard Walbran. Walbran, historian and antiquarian, born 1817, lived here. By profession a wine merchant, he was a learned chronicler of the history of the city of Ripon and the area around. His guidebooks went into many editions. From 1866 he instigated and directed archaeological excavations at Fountains Abbey. He died in 1869 and is buried in Holy Trinity churchyard, opposite this building.
30, Blossomgate, Ripon, United Kingdom
Coltsgate Hill Chapel. This former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was erected in 1861, replacing an earlier building in which John Wesley preached in 1780. Worship ended here in 1963 when the chapel merged with Allhallowgate Methodist Church. The derelict building was restored in 1997 by Lishman, Sidwell, Campbell & Price.
10, Coltsgate Hill, Ripon, United Kingdom
Naomi Jacob, writer and actor Naomi Jacob was born here on 1 July 1884. She combined a film career with writing more than 70 successful novels. Monocle-wearing and with cropped hair, she entertained troops in World War 2 with her humorous sketches. She died at her home at Sirmione in Italy on 27 August 1964.
20 High Saint Agnesgate, Ripon, United Kingdom
Former hornblowers of the City of Ripon 1815-1988. Benjamin Simmonds 1814-1846; John Simmonds 1846-1887; Jesse Davidson 1887-1894; John Masterman 1894-1903; Edward Heward 1903-1915; Thomas Hawley 1915-1922; Harold Blackburn 1922-1944; Thos. J. Hawley 1944-1954; R. Bruce 1954-1955; John H. Ellis (Jointly) Charles Skirrow 1955-1964; Cyril Hawley 1964-1967; John Lonsdale Jan/Feb 1968; Brian Waines 1968-1972; George Simpkin 1972-1973; Phillip Harrison 1973-1974; Brian Waines 1974-1977; Paul Richmond 1977-1978; Derrick Tyerman 1978-1983; Alan Oliver 1983-*. Kindly Donated by Joel Bastow, Former Deputy Hornblower 1980-1986.
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