Church Tavern with West Gate and Stocks
Drawing of Church Tavern and West Gate, Halifax, West Yorkshire.
Author: H.R. Oddy
Date: 1906
Location: Halifax
Format: Drawing
Document ID: 100844
Library ID: 14313753
Drawing by H.R. Oddy of the old Church Tavern, with West Gate and Stocks near the Halifax Parish Church, before 1896 when the Tavern was demolished. The Sunday School stands on the same site.
Image taken from "The Yorkshire Coiners 1767-1783. And Notes on Old and Prehistoric Halifax" by H. Ling Roth, Honorary Curator of Bankfield Museum, Halifax. Published in Halifax in 1906 by F. King & Sons, Ltd.
Henry Raphael Oddy (1852 - 1907) produced landscapes, topographical and architectural pictures in watercolour, pastel and pencil. He was initially a carpet designer, and suffered long periods of paralysis of the limbs. He took up professional painting in 1890 and was a founder member of the Halifax Art Society. Brother-in-law to Halifax painter Richard E. Nicholson.
