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Mar 2023
New names revealed for top hotels in Harrogate and Ripon
The owners of the St George Hotel in Harrogate and the Spa Hotel in Ripon have confirmed the venues will be given new names and branding.
The properties, which are being refurbished, will be renamed The Harrogate Inn and The Ripon Inn.
The Harrogate Inn is due to re-open in early summer with 96 rooms — six more than previously. The Ripon Inn is expected to reopen in midsummer with 58 rooms — 15 more than previously.
The Harrogate Inn
The two hotels have also been given new coats of arms.
The new identities reflect the brand style of owners the Inn Collection Group, a Newcastle-based company that has historic venues across the north.
Inn Collection Group venues serve food and drink all day and are styled as pubs with rooms rather than hotels.
Its other venues include Knaresborough's Dower House, which has been renamed The Knaresborough Inn.
Zoe Cooper, marketing manager for the Inn Collection Group, said:
The Ripon Inn
The refurbished guest accommodation at The Ripon Inn will provide a mix of double, twin and family bedrooms, accessible rooms, suites, and dog friendly rooms.
It will have an additional 15 en-suite rooms and the reconfigurated ground floor area will include a new bar and kitchen area.
The Harrogate Inn will see six new bedrooms added on the ground floor and a "complete transformation of the venue’s hospitality spaces", according to the owners.
Coats of arms
The Ripon Inn, set in six acres of gardens, has been closed to guests since July 2020 for extensive internal and external works.
Its new coat of arms is made up of a shield flanked by a pair of stags, linking to the historical coat of arms of the Earl and Marquess or Ripon.
The left half of the shield contains a representation of the Ripon horn in recognition of the history of the city's wakemen and hornblowers.
Sitting on a red background — a colour scheme and motif that appear in the city’s coat of arms – this is combined with a yellow chevron which is again informed by the Earl and Marquess of Ripon’s heraldry.
The right-hand side of the shield features a stylised illustration of the grade one listed Ripon Cathedral and its early English gothic west front, dating back to 1220 and regarded as one of the best examples of its type.
The Harrogate Inn closed in January for a 16-week refurbishment.
Its coat of arms sees the left half of the shield contain a red and white asymmetrical crossed pattern taken from the town’s original coat of arms, together with the white rose of Yorkshire.
The right-hand side of the shield features a lion ‘passant’ taken from the borough council’s arms, and this is bounded top and bottom by repeating wavy lines to represent the importance of springs in the town’s history.
Supporting the shield are a pair of griffins taken from the crest of the Slingsby family, who were instrumental in bringing prosperity to the town through Sir William Slingsby and his discovered of the first spring in Harrogate, the Tewitt Well, over three hundred years ago.
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