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The Baylegate, Bridlington– in addition to their spiritual achievements, the practical work done by the monasteries took many forms. During the early middle ages they were the only places where scholars could find security and rest, and they provided most of the social services, hospitals, lunatic assylums, travellers' hostels and almshouses.
John de Thweng of Bridlington Priory was so notable that he was canonized after his death. He was humble, charitable and compassionate to the sick and poor. Out of reverence for his memory Richard the second granted the right to build a great wall around the precincts of the priory, a privilege which John de Newbald,the prior, had petitioned for a defence against the pirates and sea rovers. The wall with four great fortified gates, the Kirkgate, the Westgate, the Nungate and the Baylegate.
Of these the Baylegate alone remains, with chambers on each side of the entrance for its defenders and a large room above, which was used as the prior's court of justice.
In a description made by Pollard, the commisioner of King Henry VIII, in his survey of 1537, made just after the dissolution of the monasteries, we see the main architectural features he mentioned are mainly the same today:
'At the cumming in of the same Priory is a gate house foure square of Toure fashion, builded with ffre stone and well covered with leade.'
Burton Agnes Gatehouse –Burton Agnes Hall is approached through a round-arched gatehouse in mellow red brick with stone groins and angle turrets, topped by lead covered domes.
It bears the arms of James I, flanked by draped female figures carved in stone.
At the end of the reign of Elizabeth Tudor the Gatehouse no longer served any defensive purpose but was designed solely as an imposing ornament to set off the house. This it does with spectacular charm.
The hall, started in 1598 by Sir Henry Griffith is of red brick, relieved by stone plinths, groins, mullions and carved decorations. The hall passed to Sir Matthew Boynton of Barmston by marriage in 1613.
Sewerby Hall – the stone arch to the stable Court Yard.
The same architect who designed the great balustrade at Dalton Hall, the home of Lord Hotham, is thought to have designed the formal ornament laid out for Mr. Yarburgh, and the beautifully designed archway leading into the stable yard. How many children over the years have put their arms round the dogs and talked to them? We can date this work by the little turret clock added to the south front of the stables, as the clock is dated, 1847.
Hunmanby Hall –Humphrey Osbaldeston of Hunmanby Hall was well known for his enthusiasm for racing and for the breeding of thoroughbreds at Hunmanby, where stables and kennels covered a large area of ground at the rear of the Hall.
A race track was laid down and there was racing at Hunmanby in 1772, when most prominent sportsmen in Yorkshire ran their horses there. There is no record of racing there after 1782, when Mr. Bethel won the only two races 50 with Ruler and a Subsciption of 25 gs each for three-year olds, with Paymaster.
In common with many local gentlemen in our district at the time, the Squire extended and beautified the grounds around his ancestral home. The road to Burton Fleming, which passed along the south front of the Hall, was diverted to a newly constructed road, New Road Hill, thus enabling him to cosiderably extend the grounds in a southerly direction.
Around the park he planted a wide belt of trees and to add a touch of antiquity to his scheme, he built an entrance gateway in the form of a monastic ruin, in 1829. Using his ancient manorial rights the Squire took his stone, for the erection of the gateway, from Filey Brigg, the stone having been acted upon by the sea in its original situation, gave it an antique appearance. This act caused a storm of protest in the district to such an extent that the Board of Trade eventually intervened to prevent any further spoilation of the Brig.
The Entrance gate at the Manor House, Lund –the Remingtons were Lords of the Manor at Lund from 1598 to 1723. They belonged to the circle of local gentry, some of whom were on the national stage during the Civil War, including the Hothams of Scorborough.
A leaflet in the Church of All Saints, Lund tells us that there is an inscription in the tenor bell in the tower, dated 1639, with the initials R.R., which are thought to refer to Richard Remington.
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