York Conservation Trust Limited
Initially Ings Property Company Limited, was formed in 1945 by Dr John Bowes Morrell and his brother Mr Cuthbert Morrell, both of whom had been buying medieval properties in York for many years, which they restored and rehabilitated, together with Dr Morrell’s son Mr William Bowes Morrell. Their properties were combined under one company - Ings Property Company Limited - without expectation of profit until 1976, when they bequeathed all the properties in the company to the current registered charity, York Conservation Trust Limited.

In order to understand the workings of the Trust, it is probably easiest to review its main objects viz; “to preserve for the benefit of the townspeople of the City of York in the county of North Yorkshire and of the nation at large, whatever of the English historical, architectural and constructional heritage may exist in and around the City of York aforesaid in the form of buildings of particular beauty or historical, architectural or constructional interest”. Read more