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Selby Almshouses

Almshouses in North YorkshireBuildings and structures completed in 1833Grade II listed buildings in North YorkshireSelby
Audus Square Almshouses, Gowthorpe, Selby geograph.org.uk 7680199
Audus Square Almshouses, Gowthorpe, Selby geograph.org.uk 7680199

Selby Almshouses are a historic building in Selby, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. The building, comprising ten houses in three ranges around a courtyard, was constructed to house poor widows or elderly people. They were designed and funded by James Audus and were completed in 1833. The building was grade II listed in 1980, and is now run by the Audus charity. The almshouses are built of brown brick with hipped slate roofs. They have two storeys, three bays on the east side, and four on the west and south sides. The windows are casements with channelled voussoirs. In the middle of the south range is a low tower with an embattled parapet and crocketed corner pinnacles. It contains an entrance with a pointed head, a moulded surround, a crocketed ogee head, and an elaborate finial. Above the entrance is an inscribed and dated plaque.

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YO8 4HA , Selby
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King's Church Selby
King's Church Selby

King's Church Selby is a historic church in Selby, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. Andrew Reed was sent by the Hackney Academy to preach in Selby in July 1808. His sermons proved immediately popular, and although he left in August, a Mr Seaton came to replace him in October, and began construction of a rectangular chapel, which opened in March 1809. The congregation continued to grow, and in 1812, galleries were added. In 1842, a vestry and schoolroom were added to the south of the chapel. The capacity of the chapel eventually grew to 500. In 1866, James Pigott Pritchett refronted the chapel and renovated the building, which by then was part of the Congregational Union of England and Wales. In 1972, this became part of the United Reformed Church (URC), which in 1977 renovated the building, removing the choir stalls and installing a kitchen. By 2009, the building was shared with the King's Church, and in 2012 the URC moved out, leaving the building entirely to the King's Church. The church has been grade II listed since 1980. It has a front of polychrome brick with stone dressings, it is rendered elsewhere, and has a Welsh slate roof with grey ridge tiles. The main block has three bays divided and flanked by stock brick piers, on a chamfered and rendered plinth. The middle block is gabled, and contains an arcade of four round arches with colonnettes, and above is a large rose window with a central quatrefoil. Each outer bay contains a round-arched doorway with colonnettes, and above is an oculus. To the left is the former schoolroom, with a three-bay arcade on the ground floor and a two-bay arcade above.