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The Mount School, York

1831 establishments in EnglandBoarding schools in North YorkshireGirls' schools in North YorkshireMember schools of the Girls' Schools AssociationPrivate schools in York
Quaker schools in EnglandUse British English from October 2017
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The Mount School is a private Quaker day and boarding school for girls ages 3 –18, located in York, England. The school was founded in 1785 and the current principal is David Griffiths. It is one of seven Quaker schools in England. The Mount offers full boarding, weekly and flexible boarding and in 2020 became the first girls' school in the North of England to become an All Steinway School. The school is also a member of the Girls' Schools Association and the Independent Schools Council. The Mount School has been acknowledged as one of the top private girls' schools in the United Kingdom. In The Times League Table, the school is ranked 2nd by A-level results in the York area. In the Yorkshire Post, the school was ranked top of an A-level results table for Yorkshire in 2012.

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The Mount School, York
Dalton Terrace, York South Bank

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Elmbank Hotel
Elmbank Hotel

The Elmbank Hotel is a historic building southwest of the city centre of York, in England. The building lies on the north-west side of The Mount. It was built in about 1870, perhaps to a design by J. B. and W. Atkinson, who extended it in 1874. It was remodelled in 1898 for Sidney Leetham, by Walter and Arthur Penty, with the interiors redesigned by George Henry Walton. Nikolaus Pevsner describes it as having an "unexceptional exterior but memorable interiors", and Historic England states that it has "one of the finest and most complete surviving [ Art Nouveau interiors] in England". The building was grade II* listed in 1968, by which time it had been converted into a hotel. It was purchased by Hilton and refurbished in 2024. The hotel is built of white brick with stone dressings, slate roofs and a lead roof to the tower. Its main entrance is through a Doric order porch facing Love Lane, and both it and the front to The Mount are five bays wide; that to the Mount has a central bow window with a balcony above. It is two storeys high, with a four-storey tower at the rear. Inside, the hall with the main staircase and major ground floor rooms are all panelled, with the walls and ceilings painted and stencilled in a broadly Pre-Raphaelite style. The hall is two storeys high and has a barrel-vaulted ceiling, with the original light fitting. One room has a marble overmantel with glass and ceramic inlaid, and many windows retain original stained glass.

St Paul's Church, Holgate
St Paul's Church, Holgate

St Paul's Church is the parish church of Holgate, a suburb of York in England. The area fell within the parish of St Mary Bishophill Junior. Much housing was constructed in the district in the 1840s, and it was decided to build a new church. A site was found on the north side of Holgate Road. A building was designed by J. B. and W. Atkinson, in the Gothic Revival style. It was constructed from 1850 to 1851, designed to seat 700 worshippers. It was consecrated on 3 January 1856, and was given its own parish later in the month. Part of the nave was given to extend the chancel in 1890, and a new east window was added in 1906, to a design by George Fowler Jones. The church was Grade II listed in 1997. The church is built of brick faced with sandstone, and it has a slate roof. The piers are made of cast iron. It consists of a continuous nave and chancel, with north and south aisles, the nave extending one bay further west than the aisles. The west wall has buttresses and two tall pinnacles; similar pinnacles at the east end have been taken down. There is a bellcote at the gable end. There is a central doorway, flanked by narrow pointed arches, with a large rose window above. The east end has a three-light Geometrical window, while the other windows are lancets. On the north side is a vestry, and there is a basement under the north aisle. Inside the church is a king post roof, which also has collar trusses and arched braces. There is a gallery at the west end, which has been converted into an office and meeting room.

Odeon Cinema, York
Odeon Cinema, York

The Odeon Cinema is a Grade II listed building immediately west of the city centre of York, in England. The Odeon Cinemas chain was keen to build a cinema in York, but it could not gain permission to construct a large building within the York city walls. Initial plans were toned down, and the resulting building is almost entirely of brown brick, with none of the tiles which often feature in Harry Weedon's work. Following these changes, permission was granted to build on Blossom Street, just outside the walls.The building opened as an Odeon Cinema on 1 February 1937. It was designed by Harry Weedon, with the assistance of Robert Bullivant, and with interiors attributed to Lily Deutsch. The construction cost £40,500. On opening, it had 1,484 seats: 934 in the stalls and 550 on the balcony. In 1972, it was converted to have three screens, with the balcony extended forward to form one 800-seat space and the rear of the former stalls split into two smaller screens, each with 111 seats. It was listed in 1981. The building is in the Art Deco style, and has a low front range, with a three-storey range behind, a tower to the left, and two-storey wings on either side. Part of the front range is occupied by shops. The tower retains an illuminated "Odeon" sign, rendered in Roman capital letters, not the chain's usual style.Odeon planned to close the cinema in 2003, with a 13,000-name petition leading to a short reprieve. It closed in 2006, but reopened in 2009 as part of the Reel Cinemas chain. In 2017, it was purchased by Everyman Cinemas and renovated to accommodate four screens, each with sofa seating.The official listing notes that "the architecture ... is well designed and executed, and is a good example of Odeon cinema design" and that original windows survive, along with some original design elements and ancillary rooms. John Brooke Fieldhouse describes it as having "... the overall texture of a building belonging to an ancient civilisation".

22–26 Blossom Street
22–26 Blossom Street

22–26 Blossom Street is a historic building immediately west of the city centre of York, in England. The building was constructed on Blossom Street in 1789. It was built for the wine merchant John Horner, as a pair of houses, with a central passageway leading to a warehouse at the rear. Horner lived in the smaller of the two houses, and leased the larger to another wine merchant. The building was altered in the early 19th century. Later residents included the architects Charles Watson and James Pigott Pritchett, and the shopkeeper Joseph Rowntree and his family. In 1888 it was purchased by the North Eastern Railway (NER), which used the larger house as the residence of the stationmaster at York railway station, and the smaller house for one of its inspectors. In 1934 the NER's successor sold the property for conversion into the York Railwaymen's Club. The two houses were combined, the dividing walls on the ground floor of the larger house being demolished, along with all the first floor dividing walls. The entire property was grade II listed in 1971. The building was later used as the New York Working Men's Club. This closed in 2019, and the building was converted into seven holiday lets, with a further seven in a newly constructed block at the rear. The building is constructed of painted brick, with a slate roof. It is three storeys high and five bays wide, and almost all the windows are sashes. There is a timber entablature from bays 1 to 3, supported to the left by a pilaster and to the right by pilasters either side of the entrance. To the left are three cellar entrances, now partly blocked. There is a lead rainwater head and downpipe, a dentilled and modillioned cornice gutter, and two chimneys. Inside, some fittings in a Regency style survive, probably designed by Watson or Pritchett.