Mansion House, York site of the old "Common Hall Gates" which provided an entrance to the Guildhall. A chapel and other property and tenements which were once owned by the Guild of St. Christopher and St. George including the Cross Keys Public House also lay on this site. These buildings were demolished to build the current Mansion House in 1724. The fifteenth century York Guildhall is situated behind the Mansion House, where the medieval city council held their meetings. In May of each year the Mayor Making ceremony is still held in the Guildhall before the Lord Mayor takes up residence in the
Mansion of the Doomed car-accident. Mansion of the Doomed Mansion of the Doomed (UK theatrical title: The Terror of Dr. Chaney; also known as "Massacre Mansion", "Eyes of Dr. Chaney" and "House of Blood") is a 1976 American horror film directed by Michael Pataki and starring Richard Basehart and Gloria Grahame. While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty panic. An insane surgeon finds himself cutting up people for their eyeballs in the hope of performing transplants on his daughter who lost her own in