Edwin Ridsdale Tate was a British antiquary, artist and architect based in York

York

York is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence...

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Life

Tate was born in York, where his birth was registered in the Bootham

Bootham

Bootham is a district near the centre of the city of York, North Yorkshire, England. It is just outside Bootham Bar, one of the ancient gateways through the city walls of York...

 sub-district. For a time, he worked for local architectural firm R. Gould and C. Fisher. Before returning to York, he also worked in London and Carlisle. In 1916, he married Mary Louise Elsworth Wray at Holy Trinity, Micklegate

Micklegate

Micklegate is a street in the City of York, England. The name means "Great Street", "Gate" coming from the Old Norse gata, or street. Micklegate lies on the Western side of the River Ouse, Yorkshire, and holds the southern entrance into the city, Micklegate Bar, through which many monarchs have...

. He died in York, and his death was registered in the East York district.

Architecture

The buildings for which Tate is best-known are an anchorage

Anchorite

Anchorite denotes someone who, for religious reasons, withdraws from secular society so as to be able to lead an intensely prayer-oriented, ascetic, and—circumstances permitting—Eucharist-focused life...

 attached to All Saints, North Street (1910) and the Tempest Anderson Hall (1912). Both were built of reinforced concrete

Reinforced concrete

Reinforced concrete is concrete in which reinforcement bars , reinforcement grids, plates or fibers have been incorporated to strengthen the concrete in tension. It was invented by French gardener Joseph Monier in 1849 and patented in 1867. The term Ferro Concrete refers only to concrete that is...

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Panoramic drawings (1915)

In 1915 Tate was commissioned by David Leith Presley, editor of the York Herald newspaper, to draw a panoramic bird’s eye view of York as it looked in the 15th century.
This was to celebrate the 20,000th copy of the York Gazette, and was published in that newspaper on May 18, 1915.
Tate’s pen and ink drawing showed the city with its castle and water-filled moat, and more than 40 churches within the city walls, and captured something of what the city would have looked like during its medieval heyday, including

• Ouse Bridge
  Ouse Bridge
  The Ouse Bridge carries the M62 between junctions 36 and 37 over the River Ouse north of Goole.-History:Traffic to and from Hull to the A1 historically went over Boothferry Bridge, on the A614, which was a swing bridge....
  
  : Apart from two ferries, the medieval Ouse Bridge was the only river crossing for many centuries. The bridge survived until 1809 when it was demolished to make way for a new bridge which is still in use in today. The old bridge had shops, houses and other establishments built upon it. These included the ancient Chapel of St. William, the Council Chamber, the City Gaol and a Public Convenience.
• The castle area, which shows Clifford's Tower.
• The Priory of the Holy Trinity, which was until the Reformation
  Reformation
  - Movements :* Protestant Reformation, an attempt by Martin Luther to reform the Roman Catholic Church that resulted in a schism, and grew into a wider movement...
  
   the second largest religious community in York, after the Abbey of St Mary
  St Mary's Abbey, York
  The Abbey of St Mary in York, once the richest abbey in the north of England, is a ruined Benedictine abbey that lies in what are now the Yorkshire Museum Gardens, on a steeply sloping site to the west of York Minster. The original abbey on the site was founded in 1055 and dedicated to Saint Olave...
  
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• Baile Hill viewed from the Clementhorpe area.

External links

• His work at All Saints', North Street, York