Grays Court Hotel and The Bow Room Restaurant
Historic hotel in a former treasurers' residence beside the Minster, with a Jacobean long gallery.
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This guide to Grays Court in York turns away from archbishops and kings to a single small pane of painted glass in the hotel's Long Gallery. It follows Henry Gyles, a seventeenth-century glass painter from Micklegate, the circle of artists who met at his house, and the riddle of a sundial whose numbers refuse to add up. Best heard from Chapter House Street, looking up at the house's first-floor windows.
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