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WESLEYAN METHODIST FEEE CHURCH, Goodramgate,
near Monk Bar (called Monk Bar Chapel), is a substantial
brick building with stone facings, erected in 1859.
Will seat 800.
WESLEYAN NEW CONNEXION CHAPEL in Peckitt
Street, is of brick, slightly Moorish in style. Was erected in
1856 ;
and will seat 700.
ENGLISH PEESBYTEEIAN, in Priory Street, was erected
in 1880 ; is of white brick finished with stone dressings, has
a low campanile tower. The design is classic. It cost about
.£5,000, and will seat over 500 persons.
ALMSHOUSES AND HOSPITALS.
Agar's Hospital, Monkgate, founded by Alderman
"Thomas Agar,' 1631, for six poor widows.
Barstow's Hospital, Caroline Street, Nunnery Lane, for
six poor people of either sex. Of its origin and history
nothing definite is known. Eebuilt 1859.
Colton's Hospital, in Eougier Street, Tanner Row, for
•eight poor men, was founded by Dr. Colton and his wife in
1717.
Harrison's Hospital, Penley Grove Street, is a neat
stone building in the Tudor style, with chapel in the centre,
and was founded in 1845 by Mrs. Harrison for eight poor
widows.
Hewley's Hospital, St. Saviourgate, was founded by
Dame Sarah, widow of Sir John Hewley, in 1700, for ten
old women. It formerly stood in Tanner Row, but on the
building of the old Railway Station (1840) was taken down,
and the present site obtained. It consists of ten small houses,
in the Elizabethan style, situate behind the church in this
street.
Ingram's Hospital, Bootham, consists of ten brick cottages,
in the centre of which is a chapel, with curious Norman
doorway and square tower. It was founded for the maintenance
of ten poor widows by Sir Arthur Ingram, 1604.
Middleton's Hospital, Skeldergate, founded in 1659 by
Mrs. Anne Middleton for twenty poor freemen's widows.
Over the entrance door is a full-length statue of the
foundress.