Erected in 1805 by private subscription to provide shelter and a meeting place. The Old Town Hall has been known as the Promenade Room, The Victoria Room and The Town Hall Theatre.
In 1796 Ellen the Dowager Countess Conyngham purchased Coghill Hall with 51 acres of land from Sir John Coghill and changed the name of the estate to Conyngham House.
The Royal Baths were built in 1894-7 by Baggerley Bristow. They were once Europe's premier destination for spa treatments and the pampered rich. Politicians and royalty came to 'take the waters'. There were also assembly rooms and a winter garden lounge.
Since 1660 there have been many buildings called "The Crown". In 1847 The Crown Hotel on Crown Place had a central section rebuilt in a chaste neoclassical design. In 1870 the Crown estate ran as far as Parliament Street, was acquired by George Dawson, who employed J H Hirst of Bristol as his architect. The Crown’s Georgian wings were removed and replaced with a powerful pair of Italian Renaissance replacements which gave the building great character. George Dawson also planned a tower and new shops in Crown Place and Crescent Road, all of which were built after Dawson’s death in […]
The Royal Baths were built in 1894-7 by Baggerley Bristow. They were once Europe's premier destination for spa treatments and the pampered rich. Politicians and royalty came to 'take the waters'.
There were also assembly rooms and a winter garden lounge.
There is in Knaresborough a small prebendal manor or jurisdiction, called Beech Hill, which is in the hands of the executors of the late Dr Huddleston as lessees under the Prebend of Knaresborough. The Living of Knaresborough is a Vicarage, ordained in 1343, valued in the King’s Books at £9-9s. 41/2p, and now worth about £400 per annum, with residence. Tithes &c commuted. Patron, the Bishop of Ripon; Vicar Rev. James Fawcett, M.A. (p115)
William Seaham: Hist Claro Wapentake p115 1871
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