Recognise this York building - it has a different use today!

MANY of York's  grand old buildings have been repurposed for today.

In recent times, the former Post Office in Lendal has been transformed into a new steak restaurant, Miller and Carter.

And here we have a photo from a neighbouring building - the former Lendal Chapel - which now houses two restaurants, Zizzi and Nola.

Lendal Chapel then and now - home to restaurant Zizzi

The City of York Council tells us more about the former Chapel in an online historical listing.

The Chapel was opened in 1816 - just one year after the site, opposite the Judges' Lodgings, was purchased for £3,000.

A new chapel was deemed necessary because the congregation had outgrown its previous meeting place in Jubbergate.

The new building at Lendal could accommodate 950 people and in the basement there was a room for a Sunday school.

The building was designed by Watson and Pritchett, architects of York. Lendal Chapel was the first in York to be lighted by gas.

The congregation quickly grew and although a new Congregational chapel was opened in 1839 in St Saviourgate, 80 persons remained in Lendal Chapel to form the nucleus of a new congregation.

The building was restored in 1902 and its use as a chapel continued until 1929.

In 1956 the building, the ground floor of which had been altered, was occupied by a shop and later became a restaurant.

Grade-II listed, the building went on the market in 2022, with a guide price of between £1million and £1.1million; it was expected to deliver £85,000 a year in rent.

Find out more

For more old photos of York, do visit the city council's Explore York archive (images.exploreyork.org.uk).

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