Cinema and shops attached. By Harry Weedon, 1937; converted to triple screen cinema 1972. Art Deco. Buff brick in Flemish garden-wall bond with bands and splayed vertical ribs of shaped brick. 1-storey front range in English bond with 3-storey block behind and tall projecting tower block at left; at each end are 2-storey wings, right one projecting forward of main block; cantilevered canopy extends width of front range from wing at right. Ground floor of all parts rusticated with horizontal brick bands; first floor of wings set back slightly over chamfered moulded brick band; wings and tower block banded horizontally at parapet level, and tower has plain parapet.
The architecture, in Art Deco style, is well designed and executed, and is a good example of Odeon cinema design. External survival is very good, with original windows and other design details surviving. The tower retains an illuminated "Odeon" sign, rendered in Roman capital letters, not the chain's usual style.
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Entrance range of 1786-9, by Thomas Atkinson, fronting earlier buildings of which the Chapel block of 1766-9. Red-brown brick in Flemish bond with window arches of orange brick; plinth, dressings and cornice of painted stone.
Entrance range: 3 storeys and attic; 7-bay front; 3 centre bays are pedimented and break forward slightly. Ground and first floors in centre are treated as centrepiece and set in 2-storey round-arched recess: door in rusticated surround. Detached doorcase is of paired fluted Doric columns supporting mutule cornice and pediment. Window above in shouldered surround with balustrade below and moulded cornice above. All other windows on ground, first and second floors are 12-pane sashes, those on second floor squatter. On ground and first floors they have sill band, on second floor painted stone sills: all have flat arches of rubbed brick. Broad raised bands to first floor and attic. Moulded cornice and pediment are modillioned and pediment has clock face in tympanum. Plain attic has 6 squat 3-pane windows.
The Bar Convent is England's oldest living convent, still home to a resident community of sisters. The buildings were renovated in 2015 and now house a museum exploring the history of the convent and the community, as well as a café, meeting rooms and a guest house.
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By William Peachey, 1862. Yellow-grey dressed stone on plinth, with grey ashlar chamfered plinth band and dressings; slate roof with stone coped gables. 4-bay aisled nave with clerestory, articulated by gabled pilaster buttresses; north-west entrance foyer and 2-stage north tower between similar dwarf buttresses. In north-west end, central entrance has moulded arch on colonnette shafts with foliate capitals: square-headed doorway with tympanum. Above, 3-light window in 2-centred arch with traceried head. In gable end, blind trefoil enclosed in moulded surround. Lancets flank central door. At each end, original doors in 2-centred arches similar to that of centre door altered to windows. Left one occupies ground stage of north tower.
William Peachey was an English architect known for his work for the North Eastern Railway where he designed ten railway stations, including the one at York.
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Early C12 with 5-bay nave with fragment of triforium c1180, and early C13 arcades; tower of 1453. 1850 restoration by J. B. and W. Atkinson; 1886-7 work by Fisher and Hepper; 1902-5 restoration and west front reconstruction by Charles Hodgson Fowler.
Stocks in the grounds of Church of Holy Trinity. Replicas of those thought to have stood here since the 16th century. They were used for punishment of minor crimes until changes in the law in 1858.
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Early C12 with 5-bay nave with fragment of triforium c1180, and early C13 arcades; tower of 1453. 1850 restoration by J. B. and W. Atkinson; 1886-7 work by Fisher and Hepper; 1902-5 restoration and west front reconstruction by Charles Hodgson Fowler.
Window by John Ward Knowles (York), 1878.
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