Bell Hall is a grade I listed building , in Naburn , in the rural southern part of the city of York , in England.
6-427: The house was built in 1680 for John Hewley , in pink-orange brick, with stone dressings, a rendered basement, and a slate roof. As built, it was rectangular in plan, approximately 60 by 45 feet, with entrances on the south and west fronts, each of which was symmetrical. The architect is not known with certainty, but is suggested by Historic England to be John Etty, father of William Etty . The ground floor contained
12-509: A presbyterian chaplain, who gathered a public congregation in York , for which a small chapel, cruciform in shape, was built at St Saviourgate in 1692 (registered 8 April 1693). It is now York Unitarian Chapel . Hewley died at his country residence, Bell Hall , near York, on 24 August 1697, and was buried in St Saviour's Church , York. He married Sarah Wolrych, who survived him and set up
18-424: A substantial entrance hall, a parlour, a dining room and a library; the first floor a drawing room and several sitting rooms; and the basement accommodation for servants and a kitchen. In about 1717, a kitchen wing was added on the eastern side. Both the main and rear staircases survive from the original build, and alterations have been relatively minor, such as the replacement of entrance doors and external steps in
24-613: The Sarah Hewley Trust . He was the son of John Hewley of Wistow , near Selby . He was admitted to Gray's Inn , 4 February 1638, and became recorder of Doncaster . He sat in Parliament for Pontefract 1658–60, was knighted at Whitehall Palace on 30 June 1663, and sat for York in 1678, 1679, and 1681. He encouraged literary work, giving monetary support to the production of William Dugdale 's Monasticon and Matthew Poole 's Synopsis Criticorum . He kept
30-462: The 19th century, and 20th century sundials added above each entrance. Original panelling and fireplaces survive in most rooms. In the entrance hall is a Jacobean overmantel, brought from Deighton Hall, and a side room has an overmantel brought in about 1750 from a house on St Saviourgate in York. The old drawing room has several painted wooden panels, probably of French or Flemish origin. The house
36-471: Was listed at grade I in 1952. 53°53′11″N 1°05′21″W / 53.8865°N 1.0892°W / 53.8865; -1.0892 John Hewley Sir John Hewley (1619–1697) was an English magistrate and Member of Parliament for Pontefract , an early Whig. He sided with parliament against the king. After his death his widow, Sarah Hewley founded the Hewley Trust in 1705, now known as
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