On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Deb Fuller wrote:

> The Yorkshire Museum in York, England, is in a deconsecrated cathedral.

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Deb:

Well, not quite!

It is in the grounds of St. Mary's Abbey, which are held under a 999 year
lease granted in 1825 from the British  Crown (which acquired the
buildings and land when the Abbey was suppressed in 1538.  Some surviving
bits of the medieval buildings are seen in the museum basement. (The York
cathedral - seat of the Archbishop of York - is known as York Minster and
is about half a mile away.)

The Yorkshire Museum itself was purpose-built over a four year or so
period in the late 1820s. It is probably only the fourth museum to be
built as such in the UK (after the Dulwich Picture Gallery, Sir John
Soane's private museum, and the British Museum).  The Yorkshire Museum is
in a Classical Greek form (a Doric temple) to a design by the fashionable
London-based Neo-Classical architect, William Wilkins, who very soon
afterwards designed the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square (1838).



Patrick Boylan

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