Cliffe Castle Museum,

Keighley Keighley ( ) is a market town and a civil parish in the City of Bradford Borough of West Yorkshire, England. It is the second largest settlement in the borough, after Bradford. Keighley is north-west of Bradford city centre, north-west of ...

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, England, is a local heritage museum which opened in the grand, Victorian,

neo-Gothic Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

Cliffe Castle in 1959. Originating as Cliffe Hall in 1828, the museum is the successor to Keighley Museum which opened in Eastwood House, Keighley, in . There is a series of galleries dedicated to various aspects of local heritage, and to displaying the house itself, which is a

Grade II listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

. Entrance to the museum is free of charge.

History

Marie-Louise Pierrepont, Countess Manvers (cropped)

It is believed that Keighley Museum was established in 1893, because that is when its first location, Eastwood House, Keighley, was purchased for the public.Information from museum staff. In 1950 the local benefactor Sir Bracewell Smith purchased Cliffe Castle, and had it redesigned as a museum and art gallery for the people of Keighley.Leaflet: ''Cliffe Castle Museum'', 2007. The museum re-opened as Cliffe Castle Museum and Art Gallery in 1959.

The building

Cliffe Hall was built by Christopher Netherwood between 1828 and 1833, and designed by George Webster of

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, a

gothic revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

ist. The Butterfields, a

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family, bought Cliffe Hall in 1848. Henry Isaac Butterfield transformed the building by adding towers, a

ballroom A ballroom or ballhall is a large room inside a building, the primary purpose of which is holding large formal parties called balls. Traditionally, most balls were held in private residences; many mansions and palaces, especially historic man ...

and conservatories from 1875 to 1880, and renamed it Cliffe Castle in 1878. He decorated the building with the

griffin The griffin, griffon, or gryphon (Ancient Greek: , ''gryps''; Classical Latin: ''grȳps'' or ''grȳpus''; Late Latin, Late and Medieval Latin: ''gryphes'', ''grypho'' etc.; Old French: ''griffon'') is a legendary creature with the body, tail ...

motif, which he had adopted as a heraldic

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. Sir Nicholas Pevsner describes the building as having an asymmetrically placed tower and Jacobean shaped gables. By 1887, the Cliffe Castle Estate had around 300 acres. The son of Henry Isaac Butterfield (1819–1910) was Sir Frederick William Louis Butterfield (1858–1943). In 1916, Sir Frederick became

Mayor In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the powers and responsibilities of a mayor as well a ...

of Keighley and held that title until 1918 when he hosted a visit to the town by

King George V George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936. Born during the reign of his grandmother Que ...

and Queen Mary on 29 May of that year. Sir Frederick's daughter, Marie-Louise Roosevelt Butterfield (1889–1984), married in 1918 and later became Marie-Louise Roosevelt Pierrepont, Countess Manvers. Sir Frederick died in 1943 and on 21 July of that year his daughter Marie-Louise, Countess Manvers inherited the Cliffe Castle Estate and took some of the contents of Cliffe Castle to her home at

Thoresby Hall Thoresby Hall is a grade I listed 19th-century English country house, country house in Budby, Nottinghamshire, some 2 miles (4 km) north of Ollerton. It is one of four neighbouring country houses and estates in the Dukeries in north Notting ...

. In 1949, the building and grounds were bought by Keighley Corporation with the assistance of Sir Bracewell Smith, a local benefactor, who in 1955, paid for the conversion of the house for public use. The house had been

gable A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system used, which reflects climate, material availability, and aesth ...

d in the

neo-gothic Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

style, with tall towers each end, and conservatories. In the interests of modernisation, the back tower was taken down, and the front one shortened. The high

Flemish gable A Dutch gable or Flemish gable is a gable whose sides have a shape made up of one or more curves and has a pediment at the top. The gable may be an entirely decorative projection above a flat section of roof line, or may be the termination of a ...

s and other decorations were removed from the roof, and the conservatories demolished. The service rooms were replaced by the octagonal art gallery in the 1950s. The exterior fantasy design was lost but some of the

interior has been recreated. By 1989, Thoresby Hall, the former home of the late Countess Manvers, and its contents, had been sold off. Various artefacts were brought back to Cliffe Castle from where they came with the help of a public appeal. Some items were borrowed and are also displayed in the museum. Image:Cliffe Hall, later Cliffe Castle.jpg, Cliffe Hall, later Cliffe Castle, circa 1880 Image:Gateway to Cliffe Castle Museum 080.jpg, Victorian

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

gateway arch The Gateway Arch is a monument in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of a weighted catenary arch, it is the world's tallest arch and Missouri's tallest accessible building. Some sources conside ...

and pedestrian entrance to the park in which the museum is located. Image:Cliffecastlemus 077.jpg, Victorian

cast iron Cast iron is a class of iron–carbon alloys with a carbon content more than 2%. Its usefulness derives from its relatively low melting temperature. The alloy constituents affect its color when fractured: white cast iron has carbide impuriti ...

lamp post A street light, light pole, lamp pole, lamppost, street lamp, light standard, or lamp standard is a raised source of light on the edge of a road or path. Similar lights may be found on a railway platform. When urban electric power distribution ...

base, in front of the museum. Image:Cliffecastlemus 004.jpg, Cliffe Castle Museum, side view. Image:Cliffecastlemus 005.jpg, Victorian

in front of the museum. Image:Cliffecastlemus 078.jpg, Weather-sculpted moorland stones at entrance to grounds of the museum. Image:Cliffecastlemus 079.jpg, Weather-sculpted moorland stones at entrance to grounds of the museum.

The galleries and rooms

Entrance vestibule

The vestibule and staircase show the Victorian eclectic

ist taste. The

hammer-beam roof A hammerbeam roof is a decorative, open timber roof truss typical of English Gothic architecture and has been called "...the most spectacular endeavour of the English Medieval carpenter". They are traditionally timber framed, using short beams pr ...

over the staircase imitates the 15th century, the staircase window the 14th century, and the vestibule arches the 13th century. The window was designed by Powells of

Leeds Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by populati ...

. The top roundel features a copy of

Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael (; or ; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. List of works by Raphael, His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of ...

's ''

Madonna and Child In art, a Madonna () is a representation of Mary, either alone or with her child Jesus. These images are central icons for both the Catholic and Orthodox churches. The word is (archaic). The Madonna and Child type is very prevalent in ...

''. All ten main lights of the window once contained Victorian figures in Tudor costume, but most of these were removed by Frederick Butterfield, to be replaced with clear lights or small roundels. Image:Cliffecastlemus 046.jpg, Victorian Gothic Revival vestibule with faux-marbled pillars, staircase and

stained glass Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant religious buildings. Although tradition ...

window. Image:Cliffecastlemus 006.jpg, Monumental conical

pendulum clock A pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum, a swinging weight, as its timekeeping element. The advantage of a pendulum for timekeeping is that it is a harmonic oscillator: It swings back and forth in a precise time interval dependent on it ...

Eugène Farcot Henri-Eugène-Adrien Farcot (20 February 1830 in Sainville – 14 March 1896 in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés) was a French clock-maker, industrialist, inventor, mechanical-engineer, aeronaut, occasional writer and one of the most celebrated conical pend ...

, sculpture by

Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (born Albert-Ernest Carrier de Belleuse; 12 June 1824 – 4 June 1887) was a French sculptor. He was one of the founding members of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, and was made an officer of the Legion of H ...

. Purchased at the 1878 Paris

world fair A world's fair, also known as a universal exhibition or an expo, is a large international exhibition designed to showcase the achievements of nations. These exhibitions vary in character and are held in different parts of the world at a specif ...

, in vestibule. Image:Cliffecastlemus 070.jpg, First floor landing view of

stained-glass Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant religious buildings. Although tradition ...

window with

chandelier A chandelier (; also known as girandole, candelabra lamp, or least commonly suspended lights) is a branched ornamental light fixture designed to be mounted on ceilings or walls. Chandeliers are often ornate, and normally use incandescent li ...

above staircase. View at max resolution to see Madonna and Child in top roundel. Image:Cliffecastlemus 047.jpg, 1875–1880 neo-Gothic

window above staircase, featuring portraits of Butterfield family in 16th century costume. Image:Cliffecastlemus 048.jpg, 1875–1880

window over staircase, featuring Butterfield family in 16th century costume. Image:Cliffecastlemus 071.jpg, Victorian Gothic Revival

hammer beam roof A hammerbeam roof is a decorative, open timber roof truss typical of English Gothic architecture and has been called "...the most spectacular endeavour of the English Medieval carpenter". They are traditionally timber framed, using short beams pr ...

in 15th century style. Image:Cliffe Castle Stairs.jpg, Main Staircase.

Reception rooms

Image:Cliffecastlemus 044.jpg, Victorian

marble Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or Dolomite (mineral), dolomite. Marble is typically not Foliation (geology), foliated (layered), although there are exceptions. In geology, the ...

facsimile statuette of Canova's 1787 ''

Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss ''Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss'' ( it, Amore e Psiche ; french: Psyché ranimée par le baiser de l'Amour; russian: Амур и Психея, Amúr i Psikhéja) is a sculpture by Italian artist Antonio Canova first commissioned in 1787 by John ...

''. Image:Cliffecastlemus 038.jpg, Victorian

drawing room A drawing room is a room in a house where visitors may be entertained, and an alternative name for a living room. The name is derived from the 16th-century terms withdrawing room and withdrawing chamber, which remained in use through the 17th cent ...

display of furniture and fittings, in Reception Rooms. Image:Cliffe Castle Music Room.jpg, Reception Rooms Image:Cliffe Castle Small Drawing Room.jpg, Reception Rooms

Great Drawing Room

In the vestibule and reception rooms are life-size portraits of

Napoleon III Napoleon III (Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first President of France (as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) from 1848 to 1852 and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870. A nephew ...

and

Empress Eugenie An emperor (from la, imperator, via fro, empereor) is a monarch, and usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress, the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife ( empress consort), mother ( e ...

. Image:Cliffecastlemus 032.jpg, Victorian painted plaster ceiling (closeup), Great Drawing Room. Image:Cliffecastlemus 037.jpg, Victorian painted plaster ceiling in Great Drawing Room. Image:Cliffe Castle Great Drawing Room.jpg, Cliffe Castle Great Drawing Room

Working Landscapes gallery

This gallery displays local crafts and trades of the past. There is a video of

clog Clogs are a type of footwear made in part or completely from wood. Used in many parts of the world, their forms can vary by culture, but often remained unchanged for centuries within a culture. Traditional clogs remain in use as protective f ...

-making which continued into the 20th century. Image:Cliffecastlemus 027.jpg, Victorian agricultural tools Image:Cliffecastlemus 023.jpg, Victorian

carved Carving is the act of using tools to shape something from a material by scraping away portions of that material. The technique can be applied to any material that is solid enough to hold a form even when pieces have been removed from it, and ...

sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates) ...

lintel A lintel or lintol is a type of beam (a horizontal structural element) that spans openings such as portals, doors, windows and fireplaces. It can be a decorative architectural element, or a combined ornamented structural item. In the case of w ...

from

area. Image:Cliffecastlemus 025.jpg, Victorian

featuring a boar's head and oak leaves as a

heraldic crest A crest is a component of a heraldic display, consisting of the device borne on top of the helm. Originating in the decorative sculptures worn by knights in tournaments and, to a lesser extent, battles, crests became solely pictorial after the ...

, from Keighley area. Image:Cliffecastlemus 029.jpg, Victorian hand-

loom A loom is a device used to weave cloth and tapestry. The basic purpose of any loom is to hold the warp threads under tension to facilitate the interweaving of the weft threads. The precise shape of the loom and its mechanics may vary, but th ...

, in Timmy Feather's (d.1910) Workshop. Image:Cliffecastlemus 031.jpg, Victorian

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-worker's workbench.

Airedale gallery

The display shows how the River Aire was formed, and shows fossils of its earliest animals. Image:Cliffecastlemus 022.jpg,

Fossil A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved ...

amphibian Amphibians are tetrapod, four-limbed and ectothermic vertebrates of the Class (biology), class Amphibia. All living amphibians belong to the group Lissamphibia. They inhabit a wide variety of habitats, with most species living within terres ...

s display. Image:Cliffecastlemus 019.jpg, Educational

fossil A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved ...

display. Image:Cliffecastlemus 021.jpg, Model of ''

pholiderpeton ''Pholiderpeton'' (from el, φολῐ́δος , 'horny scale' and el, ἑρπετόν , 'creeping thing') is an extinct genus of embolomere amphibian which lived in the Late Carboniferous period (Bashkirian) of England. The genus was first name ...

'', a huge

prehistoric Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use of ...

Archaeology Area gallery

Besides the exhibits shown below, this display features the Silsden Roman treasure. Image:Cliffecastlemus 016.jpg, Revolving

querns Quern-stones are stone tools for hand-grinding a wide variety of materials. They are used in pairs. The lower stationary stone of early examples is called a saddle quern, while the upper mobile stone is called a muller, rubber or handstone. The ...

display. Possibly some are from

Ilkley Ilkley is a spa town and civil parish in the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, in Northern England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Ilkley civil parish includes the adjacent village of Ben Rhydding and is a ward within the ...

Museum's lost early collection. Image:Cliffecastlemus 018.jpg,

Neolithic The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several parts ...

cup and ring engraving on rock from

Rombalds Moor Rombalds Moor is an area of moorland in West Yorkshire, England, between the Airedale and Wharfedale valleys. The towns of Ilkley and Keighley lie to its northern and southern edges, respectively. The moor is sometimes referred to as Ilkley Moor ...

Natural history gallery

This was once the Butterfields' ballroom. It is now full of

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animals and birds. There is a family of

tawny owl The tawny owl (''Strix aluco''), also called the brown owl, is commonly found in woodlands across Europe to western Siberia, and has seven recognized subspecies. It is a stocky, medium-sized owl, whose underparts are pale with dark streaks, an ...

s and a birdsong display. The mounted

emu The emu () (''Dromaius novaehollandiae'') is the second-tallest living bird after its ratite relative the ostrich. It is endemic to Australia where it is the largest native bird and the only extant member of the genus ''Dromaius''. The emu' ...

given by

Museum in 1928 is no longer evident, but there are many other examples of the taxidermist's craft.

Molecules to Minerals gallery

Thisdisplay was created in 1988,Memorandum from A. Armstrong (Natural Science Curator) to Museum staff, 17 May 2002. and incorporates collections from several museums in the Bradford area. It includes the Ellison Collection, given by

Museum in 1928. Very few of the collections are named in the display. Some of the specimens are from the Hinchcliffe Collection. This comprises 800 specimens from the Gem Rock Museum at Heaton,

Bradford Bradford is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Bradford district in West Yorkshire, England. The city is in the Pennines' eastern foothills on the banks of the Bradford Beck. Bradford had a population of 349,561 at the 2011 ...

, bought with grants and public subscription from George Hinchcliffe in 1984. The display explains how

minerals In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid chemical compound with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form.John P. Rafferty, ed. (2 ...

are different from

rocks In geology, rock (or stone) is any naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of minerals or mineraloid matter. It is categorized by the minerals included, its chemical composition, and the way in which it is formed. Rocks form the Earth's ...

, and has sections about: mineral colour; streak;

hardness In materials science, hardness (antonym: softness) is a measure of the resistance to localized plastic deformation induced by either mechanical indentation or abrasion. In general, different materials differ in their hardness; for example hard ...

;

magnetism Magnetism is the class of physical attributes that are mediated by a magnetic field, which refers to the capacity to induce attractive and repulsive phenomena in other entities. Electric currents and the magnetic moments of elementary particles ...

;

fluorescence Fluorescence is the emission of light by a substance that has absorbed light or other electromagnetic radiation. It is a form of luminescence. In most cases, the emitted light has a longer wavelength, and therefore a lower photon energy, tha ...

;

fracture Fracture is the separation of an object or material into two or more pieces under the action of stress. The fracture of a solid usually occurs due to the development of certain displacement discontinuity surfaces within the solid. If a displa ...

;

chemical classification Chemical classification systems attempt to classify elements or compounds according to certain chemical functional or structural properties. Whereas the structural properties are largely intrinsic, functional properties and the derived classificat ...

;

crystal A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituents (such as atoms, molecules, or ions) are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions. In addition, macros ...

shape, crystallisation, chemistry and occurrence. There are over a thousand specimens here, including a display of glowing rocks. Image:Cliffecastlemus 010.jpg, Minerals display: close-up. Image:Cliffecastlemus 014.jpg, Minerals display, including coloured agates. Image:Cliffecastlemus 007.jpg, Mineral collection labelled by Joseph Dawson in 1810. Image:Cliffecastlemus 008.jpg, Extensive and brightly coloured minerals display.

Sir Bracewell Smith Hall

This space was created in the 1950s when the castle was converted to a museum. It was restored to its original colour scheme in 2013, and the Octagonal lantern returned to its former position in the hall. The octagonal lantern was specifically designed for the space by Sir Albert Richardson in the 1950s, who was the architect who led the conversion of the building. It is sometimes incorrectly referenced as a 19th-century Chinese lantern. The colour scheme and gilding was restored on the basis of paint scrapings, confirmed by a painting of the hall design done by Sir Albert Richardson, which can be seen within the space itself. Prior to refurbishment, the space was used to host temporary exhibitions, it now displays a permanent selection of items that have been selected from the museum collections.

The Egyptians gallery

The display includes a mummy of an Egyptian girl dating from the

Ptolemaic dynasty The Ptolemaic dynasty (; grc, Πτολεμαῖοι, ''Ptolemaioi''), sometimes referred to as the Lagid dynasty (Λαγίδαι, ''Lagidae;'' after Ptolemy I's father, Lagus), was a Macedonian Greek royal dynasty which ruled the Ptolemaic ...

(), and covers the Ancient Egyptian belief in the

afterlife The afterlife (also referred to as life after death) is a purported existence in which the essential part of an individual's identity or their stream of consciousness continues to live after the death of their physical body. The surviving ess ...

. Image:Cliffecastlemus 042.jpg, Ancient Egyptian mask from

mummy A mummy is a dead human or an animal whose soft tissues and organs have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air, so that the recovered body does not decay fu ...

, side view. Image:Cliffecastlemus 039.jpg, Ancient Egyptian artefacts display. Image:Cliffecastlemus 040.jpg, Ancient Egyptian mask from

, front view.

Breakfast Room

This downstairs room acts as an accessible space for themes covered upstairs.

Conservatory

This room contains a small selection of larger exhibits and is often used as a teaching or activity room. Exhibits in the conservatory include a marble statue of the Virgin Mary and Child, that originally belonged to Henry Isaac Butterfield and was returned to the Castle by St Annes Church, Keighley. Recent additions include the a wooden First World War memorial plaque from the Temple Street Methodist Church Keighley which accompanied the Morris memorial windows that are now installed in the Stained Glass gallery.

Stained Glass gallery

This gallery contains some of the earliest

William Morris William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, architectural conservationist, printer, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He ...

in the country. Image:Cliffecastlemus 050.jpg, Neo-Gothic 19th century or earlier copy of

Albrecht Altdorfer Albrecht Altdorfer (12 February 1538) was a German painter, engraver and architect of the Renaissance working in Regensburg, Bavaria. Along with Lucas Cranach the Elder and Wolf Huber he is regarded to be the main representative of the Danube Sc ...

painted glass Painted glass refers to two different techniques of decorating glass, both more precisely known by other terms. Firstly, and more correctly, it means enamelled glass, normally relatively small vessels which have been painted with preparations of ...

window featuring

Adam and Eve Adam and Eve, according to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, were the first man and woman. They are central to the belief that humanity is in essence a single family, with everyone descended from a single pair of original ancestors. ...

. From West Riddlesden Hall, Riddlesden. Image:Cliffecastlemus 066.jpg, Detail of

Dante Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called (modern Italian: '' ...

as mourner from 1876

Crucifixion Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the victim is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross or beam and left to hang until eventual death from exhaustion and asphyxiation. It was used as a punishment by the Persians, Carthagin ...

window by

Edward Burne-Jones Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet, (; 28 August, 183317 June, 1898) was a British painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood which included Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Millais, Ford Madox Brown and Holman Hun ...

for Wm Morris. From St James Church,

Brighouse Brighouse is a town within the metropolitan borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is situated on the River Calder, east of Halifax. It is served by Junction 25 of the M62 m ...

. Possibly in homage to Doré who was in England in the 1870s. Image:Cliffecastlemus 064.jpg, Detail from

war memorial A war memorial is a building, monument, statue, or other edifice to celebrate a war or victory, or (predominating in modern times) to commemorate those who died or were injured in a war. Symbolism Historical usage It has ...

window designed 1921 by

John Henry Dearle John Henry Dearle (22 August 1859 – 15 January 1932) was a British textile and stained-glass designer trained by the artist and craftsman William Morris who was much influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Dearle designed many of the ...

for

. From Temple Street Methodist Chapel,

area. Image:Cliffecastlemus 065.jpg, Detail from window illustrating '' Death of Sir Tristram'', designed by

Ford Madox Brown Ford Madox Brown (16 April 1821 – 6 October 1893) was a British painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often William Hogarth, Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style. Arguably, his mos ...

(1821–93) for William Morris. From building in

area. Image:Cliffecastlemus 068.jpg, Detail of St John in window designed by

Edward Coley Burne-Jones Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet, (; 28 August, 183317 June, 1898) was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, British painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood which included Dante Gabriel Rossetti, J ...

in 1874 for

. From St James Church,

, near

. Image:Cliffecastlemus 067.jpg, Detail of figure looking down from

window by

1876 for William Morris. From St James Church,

, nr

Keighley Stories gallery

This gallery aims to tell the story of Keighley. It includes the

Hen Pecked Club's ''peace box''. This is an adult-sized wooden rocking cradle, supposedly for soothing nagging wives instead of babies. It had humorous rules and was displayed in

galas In Greek mythology, Galas (; Ancient Greek: Γάλας ''Gálas'') was the eponymous founder of the Gauls. He was the son of Polyphemos and Galatea and the brother of Illyrius and Celtus In Greek mythology, Celtus (; grc, Κέλτος ''Keltos'' ...

, but it is not known whether it was used. The club used to meet at the Royal Hotel, Damside, and was started by Henry Hargreaves Thompson, who was landlord in 1861. The pub became the Royal Oak in 1998. Image:Cliffecastlemus 063.jpg, ''Henpeck'd Club's peace box No.6'': an adult-sized 19th century cradle – for soothing an unreasonable wife – from a

public house men's club. Image:Cliffecastlemus 062.jpg, ''

Hippopotamus amphibius The hippopotamus ( ; : hippopotamuses or hippopotami; ''Hippopotamus amphibius''), also called the hippo, common hippopotamus, or river hippopotamus, is a large semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa. It is one of only two extant ...

'' skull, thought to have been given to Keighley Museum by

Museum (now the Manor House Museum) in 1928, due to lack of space.

Bees gallery

Image:Cliffecastlemus 060.jpg, Working

beehive A beehive is an enclosed structure in which some honey bee species of the subgenus '' Apis'' live and raise their young. Though the word ''beehive'' is commonly used to describe the nest of any bee colony, scientific and professional literature ...

(having recently passed a health check) with glass viewing panel.

Costume Gallery

Image:Cliffecastlemus 053.jpg, Display of four Victorian dresses. Image:Cliffecastlemus 052.jpg, Display of 1920s–1950s

costume Costume is the distinctive style of dress or cosmetic of an individual or group that reflects class, gender, profession, ethnicity, nationality, activity or epoch. In short costume is a cultural visual of the people. The term also was tradition ...

(with one 1880s costume on the right). Image:Cliffecastlemus 074.jpg,

1890s The 1890s (pronounced "eighteen-nineties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1890, and ended on December 31, 1899. In the United States, the 1890s were marked by a severe economic depression sparked by the Panic of ...

velvet Weave details visible on a purple-colored velvet fabric Velvet is a type of woven tufted fabric in which the cut threads are evenly distributed, with a short pile, giving it a distinctive soft feel. By extension, the word ''velvety'' means ...

and

satin A satin weave is a type of fabric weave that produces a characteristically glossy, smooth or lustrous material, typically with a glossy top surface and a dull back. It is one of three fundamental types of textile weaves alongside plain weave ...

dress with leg of mutton sleeves. Image:Cliffecastlemus 076.jpg,

1884 Events January–March * January 4 – The Fabian Society is founded in London. * January 5 – Gilbert and Sullivan's ''Princess Ida'' premières at the Savoy Theatre, London. * January 18 – Dr. William Price atte ...

evening gown An evening gown, evening dress or gown is a long dress usually worn at formal occasions. The drop ranges from ballerina (mid-calf to just above the ankles), tea (above the ankles), to full-length. Such gowns are typically worn with evening ...

, worn by the Clapham family, Keighley. This space hosts a changing selection of costume exhibits from the museum's collections

Mansion to Museum gallery

This gallery, round the top of the octagonal Sir Bracewell Smith Hall, shows the development of the building from a Victorian private house to a contemporary museum. The "Chinese Chandelier", which held the wooden harpies pictured below, once hung in Cliffe Castle. The chandelier has since been restored (with the harpies) and rehung in the Bracewell Smith Hall. It was designed for the space in the 1950s, although often described as 19th century. Image:Cliffecastlemus 059.jpg, Carved wooden

harpies In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, a harpy (plural harpies, , ; lat, harpȳia) is a half-human and half-bird personification of storm winds. They feature in Homeric poems. Descriptions They were generally depicted as birds with the head ...

from Chandelier (often described incorrectly as Chinese). Image:Cliffecastlemus 055.jpg, 18th century oval vertical

sundial A sundial is a horological device that tells the time of day (referred to as civil time in modern usage) when direct sunlight shines by the apparent position of the Sun in the sky. In the narrowest sense of the word, it consists of a flat ...

from demolished building. Image:Cliffecastlemus 054.jpg, 18th century oval vertical

from demolished building, side view. Image:Cliffecastlemus 058.jpg, Carved wooden

harpy In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, a harpy (plural harpies, , ; lat, harpȳia) is a half-human and half-bird personification of storm winds. They feature in Homeric poems. Descriptions They were generally depicted as birds with the hea ...

from the chandlier that hung in Cliffe. The chandelier (often incorrectly described as 19th Century Chinese) has since been restored and rehung in the Bracewell Smith Hall''.

Local Pottery gallery

The displays here are placed in recognition of a past local skill, and a trade which was significant in the

area. An alternative tradition to this local industrial tradition was that inspired by Japanese and British Arts & Crafts precedents. Image:Cliffecastlemus 073.jpg, Victorian

pottery Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other ceramic materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. Major types include earthenware, stoneware and por ...

made in the Keighley area, including slip trail pottery. Image:Cliffecastlemus 051.jpg, Display of UK military cap badges, in first floor corridor. View full resolution to read labels.

Other aspects of the museum

*The Friends of Cliffe Castle is the society which has researched and supported much of the restoration and improvement to the museum which has taken place in recent years. A leaflet about the society is available at the museum. *Education programme: School workshops and trails can be booked for Key Stages 1–3, and occasionally for adult and SEN groups. Cliffecastlemus 002

References

External links

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