Join us for a private tour of Hovingham Hall, a beautiful family home, 17 miles north of York. It was designed and built by Thomas Worsley c1770 and was the childhood home of the late Duchess of Kent. The house has an important collection of furniture and pictures and includes a magnificent domed ceiling, a bust of Oliver Cromwell, (an ancestor of the Worsleys), an enormous riding school, a seventeenth century dovecot and the oldest continuously played on cricket ground in England. The attractive gardens and the adjacent parish church, with Worsley memorials are well worth a visit after the house tour.
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Friends of York Art Gallery
The Friends aim to raise funds from members' subscriptions, donations and organising educational visits, functions and parties, in order to aid the development and conservation of the York Art Gallery Collection and to sponsor activities to further the appreciation of fine arts in York and its immediate surrounds.