Description

YORK

SE5952SE MUSEUM GARDENS
1112-1/12/783 Yorkshire Museum, Tempest Anderson
14/06/54 Hall and St Mary's Abbey remains
(Formerly Listed as:
MUSEUM GARDENS
The Yorkshire Museum & Temple
Anderson Hall (incl. Medieval
Cellar..))

GV I

Museum and Lecture Hall, incorporating St Mary's Abbey remains
in basement. Abbey remains comprise vestiges of late C12
Chapter House vestibule screen and vaulting shafts 1298-1307,
late C13 slype, early C14 parlour and late C14 Warming House.
Museum built 1827-29, lecture hall dated 1912, both with later
alterations. Museum by William Wilkins, lecture hall by E
Ridsdale Tate, both for the Yorkshire Philosophical Society.
MATERIALS: museum of ashlar, Tempest Anderson Hall of
shuttered concrete; museum roof of slate, shallow pitched,
partly glazed, with stone stacks.
EXTERIOR: museum: 1-storey 9-bay front on low plinth with
pedimented tetrastyle portico of fluted Greek Doric columns on
stepped podium. Central double doors of 6 sunk panels in
moulded surround with cornice hood on scroll brackets. Windows
flanking doors are narrow 8-pane sashes, elsewhere 12-pane
sashes over moulded sill band, all in architraves with cornice
hoods. Boldly projecting cornice across full width of front
and portico beneath parapet masking roof. Plaque within
portico records that "The Yorkshire Philosophical Society
transferred the Yorkshire Museum and Gardens to the Citizens
of York on Jan. 2nd 1961."
Tempest Anderson Hall: entrance front of 2 storeys 7 bays with
basement to 2 left end bays with 1-storey 1-bay projecting
porch on high plinth towards right end. Front and right return
articulated in giant order Doric pilasters and antae carrying
full entablature and parapet. Porch similarly articulated with
heavy moulded cornice to flat roof. Steps up to porch lead to
panelled double doors beneath flat canopy on scroll brackets
in left return: front has small-pane window in eared
architrave with moulded sill flanked by pilasters. Irregular
fenestration reflects variable floor levels. One basement
window altered to square bay with plate glazing, remainder are
of 2 mullioned small-pane lights with metal glazing bars.
Upper windows are generally 1-pane fixed lights, some with
transoms, in moulded architraves with moulded sills over
sunk-panel aprons. At right end of cornice, integral rainwater
goods have hopper initialled TA, dated 1912.
INTERIOR: of Museum. Basement galleries contain a
reconstruction of the Chapter House vestibule of St Mary's
Abbey incorporating remains of the original. Triple arched

entrance screen had piers carved with chevron and stiff-leaf
mouldings and detached shafts with waterhold bases and spurs:
vaulting piers have alternately filleted and keeled shafts and
roll-moulded bases. Base courses of the slype incorporate a
wallbench and remains of 4 buttresses with attached shafts
with moulded bases and capitals; base courses of north wall of
parlour incorporates bases of vaulting shafts. In a separate
room, the hearth, one moulded jamb and a carved corbel head to
the lintel of the Warming House fireplace survive. On ground
and first floors, altered interior retains 4-bay central area
colonnaded in giant order Composite columns and responds
supporting ceiling coffered with beams enriched with guilloche
and egg-and-dart mouldings: ceiling panels behind colonnades
contain moulded rosettes. Staircase to first floor has open
string, stick balusters, serpentine handrail and turned newels
on shaped curtail steps.
Temple Anderson Hall was first listed 24/06/83.
(An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York:
RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO London:
1975-: 12-13; 44-45; Murray H, Riddick S & Green R: York
through the Eyes of the Artist: York City Art Gallery: 1990-:
68).

Listing NGR: SE5995752133

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q67601241

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990