Fairfax House
Fairfax House is a town house in York in the English administrative unit North Yorkshire . It is located on Estate No. 27, Castlegate , near York Castle . Presumably a local merchant had it built in the early 1740s and in 1759 it was bought by Charles Gregory Fairfax, 9th Viscount Fairfax of Emley , who commissioned the architect John Carr to remodel the interior. After the Viscount's death in 1772, the house was sold, then passed through the hands of several local families and then housed a club, a construction company and a cinema one after the other. The York Civic Trust acquired the property in the 1980s and had it restored to its former glory. Fairfax House is now a public museum and English Heritage has listed it as a Grade I Historic Building.
history
In 1761 Viscount Fairfax commissioned the architect John Carr to remodel the house. The work was completed in 1765. Inside are some of the finest 18th century stucco and carvings in Yorkshire. They were carried out by James Henderson (active period: 1755–1778) and Giuseppe Cortese (active period: 1745–1778). The wrought iron balustrades of the stairwells were created by Maurice Tobin (active time: 1762).
Viscount Fairfax died in 1772 and his title was no longer valid. The subsequent owners of the house were z. B. Sir Walter Vavasour, 6th Baronet of Haslewood , (1780), William Danby (1787), Peregrin Wentworth (1792), Sir John Lister-Kaye, 1st Baronet Lister-Kaye of Grange , (1820) and Mrs. Ann Mary Pemberton (1840-1865). At some point later, Fairfax House, renamed St George's Hall , was no longer needed and fell into disrepair. At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, part of the property was used as a dance hall. St George's Cinema opened next to Fairfax House in 1921 and didn't close again until 1970. From 1982 to 1984 the York Civic Trust renovated the building and converted the entrance to the cinema into a main entrance to Fairfax House. The York Conservation Trust then took over the house and rented it back to the York Civic Trust.
After chocolate maker Noel Terry's death in 1980, his collection of Georgian furniture and clocks was donated to the Fairfax House.
Individual evidence
- ^ Howard Colvin: A Biographical Dictionary of English Architecture 1660-1840 . 4th edition. Yale University Press, New Haven and London (1954) 2008. ISBN 978-0-300-12508-5 . P. 226.
- ^ A b c Geoffrey Beard: Georgian Craftsman and their Work . Country Life, London 1966. pp. 164, 167, 182.
- ^ Nikolaus Pevsner, David Neave: Yorkshire: York and the East Riding . 2nd Edition. Penguin Books, London (1972) 1995. ISBN 0-14-071061-2 .
- ↑ Fairfax House, Castlegate . York Conservation Trust . Retrieved April 18, 2016.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 57 '24.5 " N , 1 ° 4' 48.4" W.