York Historic Environment Record

Recording of Bootham Crescent Football Ground, York, prior to its demolition. This site had previously been a cricket ground and opened as a football ground in 1932 with the Main Stand to the east, Popular Stand to the west and banked terraces to the north and south. The 1937 Edition Ordnance Survey map depicted the main stand and the popular stand to the west. The ground was improved in the 1950s when the Main Stand was extended to the north. The 1961 Ordnance Survey map depicted terraces added north and south of the pitch and a larger eastern stand. In 1991, the Shipton Street End, to the north of the pitch, was covered and renamed the Longhurst Stand, in honour of David Longhurst, a York City player who collapsed and died on the pitch the previous year. The three covered stands are constructed of brick, concrete and steel. The majority of the seating had been removed at the time of the building record. There was a tunnel beneath the Popular Stand. There was a commentary/press box in the centre of the Main Stand and a three storey high extension constructed on the east side of the Main Stand, containing offices, hospitality suites, family room, physiotherapists rooms and player changing room. South of the Popular Stand was the gym, constructed of concrete with sheet panel roof. There was a bar and shop, located south of the Main Stand. The bar had a conference room above. Two hundred and twenty-nine high resolution digital photographs were taken to record the exterior and interior of the football ground.