The Bar Convent Living Heritage Centre
Georgian convent hiding a domed neo-classical chapel, with a museum, café and guest rooms.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Bar Convent in York follows Thomas Atkinson, a Catholic convert architect of the seventeen sixties, and the nuns who asked him for a chapel at a time when their faith had to keep its head down. It is a story of architecture as performance, of design meant to impress the few and fool the many. Best heard on Blossom Street facing the Georgian front, before you step inside.
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