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.
According to the Domesday Book, there was a Norman church at Cowthorpe on a site half a mile to the south-west of the present building.
In 1450, Bryan Roucliff, an eminent lawyer and Baron of the Exchequer under Henry VI, inherited the manor of Cowthorpe from his maternal uncle. He petitioned the Archbishop of York to allow him to build a new church, stating that the old one was in need of repair and difficult of access, being surrounded by dangerous marshland. Having gained permission, he started work in 1456 on a step bank above the River Nidd. The church is build in a simple perpendicular style. There is a large window inside the recess so formed, with great corbels on either side to support the overhanging portion of the tower. The interior walls are constructed of very rough stones, some reddish, some golden in colour.
St Michael’s Cowthorpe was last modified: February 25th, 2016 by Web Master