Description

YORK

SE6052SE ALDWARK
1112-1/14/17 (North East side)
14/06/54 Merchant Taylors' Hall
(Formerly Listed as:
ALDWARK
Merchant Taylors Guild Hall)

GV I

Guildhall of the Merchant Taylors' Company. c1400 with late
C15 wing, refenestrated early C17; extended, refaced and porch
added 1714-15; entrance front and wing refaced c1730. Restored
with some rebuilding and further extensions in C20. Painted
glass c1700 by Henry Gyles.
MATERIALS: hall and wing timber-framed, refaced in
orange-brown and orange brick in random and English
garden-wall bonds: extension of orange-brown brick, part
rendered, part rebuilt: timber porch: tile roofs with brick
stacks, hall stack partly rebuilt.
5-bay hall with screens passage and service bay; projecting
extension wing.
EXTERIOR: 1-storey 3-bay hall range with external porch, and
2-storey service bay at left end; projecting 1-storey 3-bay
gabled wing and parallel extension to right. Pedimented porch
with 3 round-arched openings, one with brick blocking,
contains chamfered frame for original door of ogee-arched
panels with 4-centred head and arched wicket retaining iron
handle back plate. To left of porch, inserted C20 cross-window
beneath segmental brick arch on ground floor: on first floor,
early C18 3-light window with central casement on H-L hinges.
To right of porch, two C20 inserted windows flank rebuilt
external chimney stack. Wing has round-arched window in gable
end and square-headed 3-light mullioned and transomed window
in left return.
Rear: battered external stack flanked by high 5- and 6-light
timber mullion and transom windows. Left return ground floor
obscured by later extension: C20 first floor windows and
exposed timber-frame in gable end. Hall right return has
round-headed window in round-arched stone surround with
keyblock and imposts beneath segmental pediment flanked by
2-light windows with segmental brick arches. To left, wing
extension behind later extension retains 3-panel door in
moulded frame and two timber mullion and transom windows.
INTERIOR: main door hung on strap hinges retains original door
furniture. Plank door on similar hinges at rear of screens
passage. To left of screens passage, two openings with
4-centred heads in chamfered frames survive. Reconstructed
staircase retains moulded close string, splat balusters and
square newels with attached half balusters. Doorway to hall is
round-arched between sunk-panel pilasters with imposts and
moulded keyblock rising into moulded cornice: 2-leaf doors of

raised and fielded panelling set in panelled reveals. In hall
C20 wainscot masks timber-framing and incorporates
reproduction C18 doorcases: C18 double doors of raised and
fielded panelling survive to wing and 3-panel door to wing
extension. Chimneypiece in bolection moulded timber surround
surmounted by Arms of the Drapers' Company painted on plank
board with segment-pedimented head. Reset gallery with slender
column-on-vase balustrade and panelled door on butterfly
hinges. Painted carved Royal Arms over window. Roof has one
crown post truss and 4 collared rafter trusses with moulded
arch braces and inserted tie beams.
Fittings in wing are C20: windows incorporate fragments of
names painted in Black Letter and coloured glass by Henry
Gyles, including the Arms of the Company.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 85-91).

Listing NGR: SE6064452153

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Merchant Taylors' Hall, York at Wikipedia
• Merchant Taylors' Hall, York official website
• Wikidata Q15253093

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