Discover 700 years of history in York's Hidden Ancient Hall
Stone buildings are constructed in the Bedern, including the current hall, to encourage the Vicars Choral to live and eat communally.
Bedern Hall and other buildings within the area known as the Bedern are leased out to private tenants.
St. Peter’s School is moved to the Bedern after the former campus is destroyed in the civil war siege of York.
Bedern Hall is split into three tenements and becomes a part of York’s “sad spectacle of poverty and wretchedness”. Irish Immigrants fleeing the potato famine settle in Walmgate and the Bedern.
G.E. Bartons, a baker, confectioner, and caterer, takes over Bedern Hall for use as a coach house and adds a first floor workshop.
Messrs William Wright, Pork Butchers purchase the hall and use it for meat storage.
Bedern Hall becomes a scheduled ancient monument, and is saved from a major redevelopment project.
Three York Guilds- the Company of Cordwainers, the Gild of Freemen and the York Guild of Building- form the Bedern Hall Company and take a 99-year lease on the building.
Bedern Hall Company secures the future of the Hall with the purchase of the Freehold from City of York Council.
A successful bid to The National Heritage Lottery’s Cultural Recovery Fund enables Bedern Hall to open to the public on a regular basis and to become a Community Interest Company.
The Bedern Hall guild family grows with the inclusion of The Company of Butchers of The City of York.
Stone buildings are constructed in the Bedern, including the current hall, to encourage the Vicars Choral to live and eat communally.
Bedern Hall and other buildings within the area known as the Bedern are leased out to private tenants.
St. Peter’s School is moved to the Bedern after the former campus is destroyed in the civil war siege of York.
Bedern Hall is split into three tenements and becomes a part of York’s “sad spectacle of poverty and wretchedness”. Irish Immigrants fleeing the potato famine settle in Walmgate and the Bedern.
G.E. Bartons, a baker, confectioner, and caterer, takes over Bedern Hall for use as a coach house and adds a first floor workshop.
Messrs William Wright, Pork Butchers purchase the hall and use it for meat storage.
Bedern Hall becomes a scheduled ancient monument, and is saved from a major redevelopment project.
Three York Guilds- the Company of Cordwainers, the Gild of Freemen and the York Guild of Building- form the Bedern Hall Company and take a 99-year lease on the building.
Bedern Hall Company secures the future of the Hall with the purchase of the Freehold from City of York Council.
A successful bid to The National Heritage Lottery’s Cultural Recovery Fund enables Bedern Hall to open to the public on a regular basis and to become a Community Interest Company.
The Bedern Hall guild family grows with the inclusion of The Company of Butchers of The City of York.