Barley Hall
The interior of the Great Hall
Shown within North Yorkshire
General information
Address	2 Coffee Yard
Town or city	York
Country	England
Coordinates	53°57′39″N 1°04′58″W / 53.960949°N 1.08272°W / 53.960949; -1.08272
Construction started	1360
Renovated	1990-3
Design and construction
Owner	York Archaeological Trust
Renovating team
Renovating firm	McCurdy & Co

Barley Hall is a reconstructed medieval townhouse in the city of York, England. Originally built around 1360 by the monks of Nostell Priory, it was later extended in the 15th century. The property went into a slow decline and by the 19th and 20th centuries heavily sub-divided and in an increasingly poor physical condition. It was bought by the York Archaeological Trust in 1987, renamed Barley Hall, and heavily restored in a controversial project to form a museum.

History[link]

14th - 20th centuries[link]

Barley Hall was first built around 1360 in the city of York.^[1] The earliest parts of the building were constructed by Prior Thomas de Dereford of Nostell Priory; the priory formed a politically important group of local monks who used it as a hospice, or town house, when visiting the city.^[1] By the 1430s, however, the priory had fallen on hard times and the monks decided to rent it out to raise additional revenue.^[1] Around this time there was new building work on the site involving the poor quality reconstruction of parts of the great hall.^[1] In the 1460s the building was rented to William Snawsell, a prominent local goldsmith, who paid 53 shillings and 4 pence for the property, a very high rent for the period.^[1] Snawsell was a supporter of Richard III during the troubled period of the Wars of the Roses, and had given up the property by 1489.^[1]

The later history of Barley Hall is less clear.^[1] By the 17th century the building had been divided into smaller units, with part of it turned into an alleyway.^[2] By the Victorian era the property had been subdivided into yet smaller units, partitioned by brick walls, and this pattern of use continued into the 20th century.^[1] By the 1970s the property was used by a local plumber as a storage unit and showroom.^[1]

Late 20th - 21st centuries[link]

Barley Hall seen from the courtyard

By the early 1980s, the building was in a dangerously unsafe condition and was scheduled for demolition to make way for offices and apartments.^[1] As part of this process, however, the medieval architecture of the building was rediscovered in 1980; the site was sold for redevelopment in 1984 and then purchased by the York Archaeological Trust in 1987, when a further process of archaeological investigation began to inform a decision on the final use of the site.^[3]

The decision on what to do with Barley Hall proved controversial.^[4] The original wooden timbers of the building had degraded significantly; only 30% were still usable and the site had been extensively altered since the original medieval period.^[5] The Trust decided to reconstruct the building as it might have appeared in 1483 with the intention of it forming a museum, naming it Barley Hall after the Trust's chairman, Professor Maurice Barley.^[1] The post-medieval fabric of the building was largely destroyed and a new timber frame was built off site and then moved into York over a ten-day period, a challenging operation due to the physical constraints of the immediate neighbourhood.^[6] Replica furniture and fittings were created for the property, based on an inventory made in 1478.^[7] Supporters of the scheme, including English Heritage, viewed this as an attempt to produce an innovative way of presenting the past, similar to the Trust's work at the nearby Jorvik Viking Centre.^[8] The care and accuracy of the work was praised and the new museum received a generally positive public reaction.^[9]

Critics of the reconstruction raised concerns over the nature of the preservation work.^[10] Academic Raphael Samuel has noted that the restoration was heavily influenced by the late-20th century tradition of living history, in which "reinterpretation" gives way to "retrofitting", and where the past is "faked up to be more palatable than the here and now".^[7] The chairman of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings critiqued the work as producing a replica, rather than a restored building, condemned the destruction of the later periods of the hall and noted that it was "another contribution to our Disneyland heritage".^[4] Historian Sarah Beckwith suggests that York is now so heavily "museumized that very few of its features escape the construction of an imaginary and commodified past", a problem she argues is typified by Barley Hall.^[11]

Architecture[link]

The restored interior of Barley Hall

On the ground floor, Barley Hall comprises a number of rooms.^[12] The store room, used as an admissions area, contains a large quantity of original 1360 woodwork, which leads onto a second store room, now called the Steward's room.^[12] At the heart of the building is the Great Hall, a 1430 construction, decorated on the basis of equivalents elsewhere in the city of York.^[12] The building also includes a pantry and a buttery.^[12] On the first floor is the parlour, which overlooks the hall, a gallery and several bedchambers.^[12] Barley Hall is a grade II listed building.^[13]

See also[link]

• Economy of England in the Middle Ages
• Medieval Merchant's House

Bibliography[link]

• Beckwith, Sarah. (2001) Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in the York Corpus Christi Plays. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-04133-9.
• Gerrard, Christopher M. (2003) Medieval Archaeology: Understanding Traditions and Contemporary Approaches. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-23463-4.
• Holloway, J. Christopher and Neil Taylor. (2006) The Business of Tourism. Harlow, UK: Pearson Education. ISBN 978-0-273-70161-3.
• Roskams, S. and M. Whyman. (2007) Yorkshire Archaeological Research Framework: research agenda. London: English Heritage.
• Samuel, Raphael. (1996) Theatres of Memory. London: Verso. ISBN 978-1-85984-077-1.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Barley Hall website

Amaan Ali Khan
Amaan Ali Khan in California, 2012
Background information
Also known as	Amaan Ali BangashN-[1]
Born	1977 (age 34–35)
Origin	Delhi, India
Genres	Hindustani classical music, world fusion music
Instruments	sarod
Associated acts	Amjad Ali Khan, Ayaan Ali Khan
Website	Amaan Ali Khan

Amaan Ali Khan (Hindi: अमान अली खान; IAST: Amān Alī Khān) (born 1977) is an Indian classical musician who plays the sarod. Khan is the son of Amjad Ali Khan and often performs with his younger brother Ayaan Ali Khan, with whom he hosted the music talent show Sa Re Ga Ma.

Notes[link]

External links[link]

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• "Amaan Ali Khan". Official website. http://sarod.com/amaan/. 
• Amaan Ali Khan and Amaan Ali Bangash at Allmusic

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Ayaan Ali Khan
Khan in Pune, 2007
Background information
Also known as	Ayaan Ali BangashN-[1]
Born	(1979-09-05) 5 September 1979 (age 32)
Origin	Delhi, India
Genres	Hindustani classical music, world fusion music
Instruments	sarod
Associated acts	Amjad Ali Khan, Amaan Ali Khan
Website	Ayaan Ali Khan

Ayaan Ali Khan (Hindi: अयान अली खान; IAST: Ayān Alī Khān) (born 5 September 1979) is an Indian classical musician who plays the sarod. Khan is the son of Amjad Ali Khan and often performs with his older brother Amaan Ali Khan, with whom he hosted the music talent show Sa Re Ga Ma. He released solo albums and collaborations with brother and father.

Early life and career[link]

Khan was born 5 September 1979 as the son of sarod player Amjad Ali Khan and Subhalakshmi Barua Khan, a classical dancer.^[1][2] His birth name was Bangash and he was born in at least the fifth generation of musicians; the Bangash lineage claims to have invented the sarod.^[3][4][5] Khan has an older brother, Amaan, and they were taught music by their father from a young age and later began to perform with their father on concert tours.^[6]

Khan has performed with his father and brother since the late 1980s and performed at Carnegie Hall in 1997.^[7][8] He released his solo debut album of classical music in 1999.^[9] Khan hosted the music talent show Sa Re Ga Ma on Zee TV with his brother for three years in the early 2000s.^[10][11] In 2002, Khan and his brother wrote a book about their father, Abba: God's Greatest Gift To Us.^[10] Moksha, a 2005 album made in with Amaan and Amjad Ali Khan and released by Real World Records, was nominated for Grammy Award for Best Traditional World Music Album.^[12] The brothers released Reincarnation, an album of world fusion music, in 2006, and a thematic album, Mystic Dunes, in 2007, and toured internationally.^[13] They were awarded a Lycra Style Award from MTV India in 2006.^[13] Khan and his brother also sing, including on the 2007 tribute album Remembering Mahatma Gandhi.^[14] Khan joined his family to perform for the Parliament of India in 2007.^[15] In 2009, after working under a movie contract that forbade public appearances for a year, the brothers returned to making music when the production by Bollywood director J. P. Dutta was cancelled.^[16] They are working on a Sufi music album.^[16]

Personal life[link]

Khan married Neema Sharma on 21 February 2008 and is an amateur painter; he has displayed devotional pictures in exhibition.^[1][10]

Discography[link]

Khan playing the sarod

Solo[link]

• Raga Bageshwari (1999)
• Footsteps (2000)
• Raga Shree (2002)
• Sonata (2005)
• Chords of Devotion (2005)

Ayaan and Amaan Ali Khan[link]

Amaan standing with Ayaan

• Raga Puriya Kalyan, Rageshwari (2002)
• Strings Attached (2006) - with Matthew Barley (cello)
• Reincarnation (2006)
• Mystic Dunes (2006)
• Truth (2007)
• Passion (2007)
• Dreamz' (2007)

Amjad, Ayaan, and Amaan Ali Khan[link]

• Sarod Ghar (2000)
• The Legendary Lineage
• Sarod Maestro Amjad Ali Khan - With Sons (2001)
• Sarod for Harmony - Live at Carnegie Hall (2002)
• Moksha (2004)
• Sarod Trilogy (2006)
• Remembering Mahatma Gandhi (2007)

Notes[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Ayaan Ali Khan

• "Ayaan Ali Khan". Official website. http://sarod.com/ayaan/. 
• Ayaan Ali Khan at Allmusic