11/12-15/19 Coney Street The George Inn
A Jewish synagogue was on the site during the 12th century. In 1279, after the Jews had been expelled from England, Roger Basy and John Sampson were granted their former property on Coney Street. Roger Basy was one of the 1st of 2 elected members of parliament for York in 1295. He was the 18th Mayor of York in 1290
From the An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York, Volume 5, Central
The building is listed as 17 in the information, which shows how the numbers keep changing
(142) A modern office building which retains on the ground floor a stone Tuscan column surviving from the former George Inn, demolished in 1869 (Benson, iii, 61); on the first floor is a reset sashed bow window taken from the same building. The inn, originally a mediaeval timber-framed building, was formerly known as The Bear, later The Golden Lion, and became The George in 1614 (Davies, 63–5). The S.E. part of the inn, on the site now occupied by part of a modern department store, No. 19, in 1716 was given a new brick facade, supported on stone columns (YAJ, XIV, 446); it retained a 15th-century timber porch with a ribbed vault and a boss carved with a Pelican in Piety (Cave, Plate XXXI) which had probably been brought from elsewhere and is now in the Yorkshire Museum. The N.W. end of the frontage, where No. 17 now stands, was probably built soon after 1614; it had a jettied and gabled elevation distinguished by ornate pargetting (Cave, Plate V) and in 1810 was rebuilt in brick (YCA, M17A), also supported on stone columns, one of which is that surviving. Inside was a large panelled room with a decorated plaster ceiling and heraldic glass of 1661–8.
The Bear
The Golden Lion
The George Inn
Ralph Rokeby
1596 John Stephenson
1614 Thomas Kaye
1716 George Prickett
1832 Glove Manufacturers, Walker Michael, 11, Coney street
1829 Glove Manufacturers Walker Michael & Son
1840 Glove Mfrs & Dealers, Walker and Howe, 11 Coney street
Comb Manufacturers Pole John, 12 Coney street
Toy Manfrs & Dealers (see also Turners), Marked † are Fancy Warehouses, †Pole John, 12 Coney street
1840 Attonery Garwood William Fire, &c. Insurance Offices & Agents Protector, William Garwood
1840 Comb Manufacturers Pole John, 12 Coney street
1851 Glove Mfrs & Dealers, Walker and Howe, 11 Coney street
11 William Howe Glover & Hosier 12 Thomas Cooke Optician, Mathmatical Instrument Maker
1861 Howe William, hosier
1870 11 Leak and Thorp, drapers and silk mercers
12 Balmford George, French dyer and cleaner
1872 11 Leak and Thorp, drapers and silk mercers
1876 11 Leak and Thorp, drapers and silk merchants
1885 11 & 12 Leak & Thorp, drapers and silk mercers, Commerce house
12a Balmford Geo. French cleaner and dyer
Leak & Thorp’s carpet warehouses
1886 11 & 12 Leak & Thorp, drapers and silk mercers, Commerce House
12a Balmford Geo. French cleaner and dyer
Leak & Thorp’s carpet warehouses
1889 11 Balmford and Son, dyers
11-12 Leak & Thorp, general and furnishing drapers, silk mercers, mantle makers, costumiers, ladies’ tailors, &c., see advt. inside front cover
1900 11-12 Leak & Thorp, general and furnishing drapers, silk mercers, mantle makers, costumiers, ladies’ tailors, &c., advt. inside front cover
1902 11-12 Leak & Thorp, general and furnishing drapers, silk mercers, mantle makers, costumiers, ladies’ tailors, &c., advt. inside front cover
1920 12 Driffield, Thomas
12 Daglish, William Albert
12 Robinson, Fred…
12 Speak, George William
12 Thomas, David John
12 Thompson, John
