Timber Frame Work of the Church Tavern
Drawing of demolition of Church Tavern, Halifax, West Yorkshire.
Author: H.R. Oddy
Date: 1896
Location: Halifax
Format: Drawing
Document ID: 100845
Library ID: 14313753
Drawing by H.R. Oddy of the timber framework of the old Church Tavern, near the Halifax Parish Church, as seen when in course of demolition in 1896. 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.
