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Manor House Museum, Ilkley, England, is a local heritage museum and art gallery, and was established in the present building in 1961 to preserve local archaeological artefacts after the spa town expanded and much Roman material was lost. It was managed by Bradford Council Museums and Galleries department but unfortunately had to be closed in 2015 owing to lack of funds. A group of individuals who were passionate about keeping the building open for the public formed the Ilkley Manor House Trust and in April 2018 Bradford Council transferred the Manor House and 3 adjacent cottages to the Trust as a community asset transfer.

Manor House Art Gallery and Museum
The front or south elevation of the Manor House Museum, Ilkley
Established1892
LocationCastle Yard, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, England LS29 9DT
TypeHeritage centre, Historic house museum, Interpretation centre
Public transit accessIlkley railway station; Ben Rhydding railway station
Websitewww.bradfordmuseums.org

History of the museum


The following are key events in the history of the museum:[1]

sandstone carved head.
sandstone carved head.
The Museum's blue plaque
The Museum's blue plaque

Early exhibits


Original cup and ring engravings on Panorama Rocks brought into Ilkley from local woods.
Original cup and ring engravings on Panorama Rocks brought into Ilkley from local woods.
Hippopotamus amphibius skull at Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley: possibly the one given by Ilkley Museum in 1928.[2]
Hippopotamus amphibius skull at Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley: possibly the one given by Ilkley Museum in 1928.[2]

The following are some key early exhibits at the museum:


Current exhibits


The collection was exhibited in rotation. The famous Roman triple vase was not always on display for that reason,[6] although it attracted visitors because it is the one item which has been consistently listed in reports of the collection since 1892.[1]


The Manor House (Old Castle) building


Manor House Museum and Art Gallery, Ilkley. Front, or south elevation.
Manor House Museum and Art Gallery, Ilkley. Front, or south elevation.

The Manor House building is of historic interest.[7] The building stands on a Roman fort. This is the oldest dwelling-house in Ilkley and was built along with the parish church on the fort Olicana. The church was built in Anglo-Saxon times on top of the Principia or headquarters building of the fort. The Manor House was built into the west defences: that is, it was incorporated with part of the free-standing defensive west wall of the fort, and many robbed-out Roman small squared stone blocks are now part of the building.

The front or south elevation. The building faces south. The left or west wing, where the Museum shop is situated, is partly medieval and was built on the Roman fort wall. The interior entrance to the shop has a 14th-century shouldered lintel. The mullioned windows are 17th century. The central gable covers the main eating hall with fireplace, and the right or east gable is the solar wing, containing upstairs accommodation for the owner, with a garderobe and fireplace. The front walls and windows of the central hall and solar wing are 16th century. The front doorway with pointed arch is possibly late Norman, 14th century.

The back or north elevation of the building is partly built with stones robbed out from the Roman fort. The passage doorway may be medieval, but the archway and right (west) wing are 17th century. The wall beneath the central and east gables on this side is 15th to 16th century. The lowest large window in the solar wing on this north side is 17th century; other north-elevation windows are more modern.

In the interior roof of the solar room, the rigid 15th or 16th century structure of king posts, tie beams and principal rafters forms the main frame of the roof, as a series of triangular trusses.


Educational facility


For some of the time, the ground floor room in the solar wing was used for educational purposes.[6]


See also



References


  1. Gavin Edwards and Denise Shillitoe, Ilkley and its Museum 1892–1992, 1992. (Available at the Museum.)
  2. Opinion given by current Keighley museum staff, though they cannot be sure.
  3. Antiquary, 1893.
  4. Ilkley Museum: Bigger Home Needed, Ilkley Gazette, Friday 21 August 1925.
  5. Information from staff of Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley, and of the Manor House Museum.
  6. Information from Museum staff.
  7. West Yorkshire Archaeological Service, Historic Houses of West Yorkshire: The Manor House Ilkley (leaflet), 1987 & 1982. (Available free at the Museum.)





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