The Courthouse Museum

The Courthouse Museum. . The earliest part of this Courthouse building is the undercroft where the stonework appears to be late 12th or 13th century in style. The arched doorway to your left was inserted in the 14th century. In the medieval period this range of buildings provided lodgings, a chapel and a depository for administrative records., The building is now a museum where you can find out more about life in a medieval castle and the later history of Knaresborough., The museum is open during the spring/summer season., The first floor was built around 1600 and still contains the very unusual Tudor courtroom with its oak table and fittings. The building was further extended at the west end in the 17th century. The courthouse continued in use as an administrative centre after the English Civil War in the 17th century., (Main photo) The first floor of the Courthouse built around 1000 and still contains the original oak table and fittings., (Left) Samuel Powell Snr (1777-1859) was the founder of the solicitors practice that became know as Powell, Edison, Freeman and Wilks. The Old Courthouse was the firms office until 1970., (Right) The stocks on display in the Courthouse Museum.