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Barnard Castle (/ ˈ b ɑːr n ər d /, BAR-nərd) is a market town on the north bank of the River Tees, in County Durham, England. The town is named after and built around a medieval castle ruin . The town's Bowes Museum has an 18th-century Silver Swan automaton exhibit and paintings by Goya and El Greco .
A stone castle was built on the site of an earlier defended position from around 1095 to 1125 by Guy de Balliol. Between 1125 and 1185 his nephew Bernard de Balliol and his son Bernard II extended the building. [2] In 1216 the castle was besieged by Alexander II, King of Scotland.
Barnard Castle Market Cross (also known as the Butter Market or Break's Folley) is an octagonal construction in the market town of Barnard Castle, County Durham, England.It was built in 1747 by Thomas Breaks and is a Grade I listed building. [1]
The Bowes Museum is an art gallery in the town of Barnard Castle, in County Durham in northern England It was built to designs by Jules Pellechet and John Edward Watson to house the art collection of John Bowes and his wife Joséphine Benoîte Coffin-Chevallier, and opened in 1892.
Pair of railway viaducts built as part of the former Darlington and Barnard Castle Railway. The railway had to be rerouted, to avoid Lord Barnard's Selaby Hall. The original bridges where destroyed in a flood in 1855. [35] [36] [37
The Silver Swan is an automaton dating from the 18th century and now housed in the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, Teesdale, County Durham, England.It was acquired by John Bowes, the museum's founder, from a Parisian jeweller in 1872.
Built as the southern section of a proposed a line from Barnard Castle to Alston that was never completed the section to Middleton-in-Teesdale was built by the Tees Valley Railway opening on 13 May 1868, with intermediate stations at Mickleton and Cotherstone. Romaldkirk opened later in the July of the same year.
A new station was built to replace the terminus at Barnard Castle. [11] A mineral train ran between Barnard Castle and Barras on 26 March 1861, and mineral traffic worked through to Tebay from 4 July 1861. After an opening ceremony on 7 August 1861, the SD&LUR was open to passengers the following day. [12] Stations opened on the line at: Evenwood
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