SOUTH YORKSHIRE |
| Bishop’s House |
Meersbrook Park, Sheffield |
Tradition says that two Bishops lived in this house at
the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries. Standing at the highest
point of Meersbrook public park’s grounds, the simple L-shaped house is the most
complete example of a black-and-white timber-framed house surviving in Sheffield. In the
west wing were the family’s private apartments, chief of which was the Grand Parlour,
which is still furnished as it was in Tudor and Stuart times. In the east wing is the
hall, once the centre of household life and open to the roof, but now an exhibition area. |
| Cannon Hall Museum |
Off A635, 5 miles west of Barnsley |
Cannon Hall is a typical Georgian country house, solid,
comfortable and set in serene parkland. Now a museum, the hall’s rooms are furnished
in a variety of styles from Jacobean to Victorian. The most elegant room is the
Jacobean-style ballroom with its fine oak-panelled walls, minstrels’ gallery and
elaborate fireplace. A glassware collection includes such 19th century oddities
as glass rolling pins and walking sticks. The hall also houses the regimental museum of
the 13th and 18th Royal Hussars, whose part in the Charge of the
Light Brigade in 1854 is recalled in a series of displays. |
| Conisbrough Castle |
Off A630, in Conisbrough |
Overlooking the River Don, the mighty stone keep of
Conisbrough Castle towers over an impressive medieval English fortress. Originally 100ft
high, it is one of the finest examples of late Norman defensive architecture. Although
much of the circular keep is in ruins, there is still evidence of several rooms, including
the first floor chamber and open fireplace. |
| Cusworth Hall Museum |
Off A638, 3 miles north of Doncaster |
With its fine ornamental doors and windows and
Palladian pavilions, Cusworth is an excellent example of early Georgian architecture.
Inside, the rooms are decorated with elaborate plasterwork, panelling and carved marble
chimneypieces. The hall is now a museum of local life. Items as diverse as children’s
dolls, a whalebone corset and decorated chamber pots illustrate life in south Yorkshire
over the past 200 years. In the Pleasure Grounds a number of plants grow including
strawberry trees, larches, cypress, fig, yew and bamboo. |
| Sheffield Cathedral |
In centre of Sheffield |
Sheffield Cathedral has a number of magnificent stained
glass windows. One of the finest is the Te Deum window, which depicts Christ flanked by
prophets and apostles, saints and martyrs down the ages. Six windows in the Chapter House
tell the history of Sheffield and its 15th century church over the centuries.
It became a cathedral in 1914. |
| Sheffield City Museum |
Weston Park, Sheffield |
A dagger which shoots bullets and a 4ft long knife are
two of the unusual items in the large collection of Sheffield cutlery on display behind
the City Museum’s neo-classical facade. There is also a collection of Old Sheffield
Plate and ceramics. A Wildlife Gallery has displays of urban wildlife and exotic species,
and includes an aquarium and an ant house. An Anglo-Saxon warrior’s helmet is also on
display. |
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