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Remains of Clementhorpe nunnery, York

Clementhorpe Nunnery

Thurstan, Archbishop of York, founded Clementhorpe nunnery in 1130 to service the parish of St Clement – an area bounded by the River Ouse, York’s city walls, the Knavesmire and …

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Talbot Court, Low Petergate, York

Talbot Court

Talbot Court is a gated courtyard off Low Petergate. Access is flanked on one side by 62 Low Petergate, currently a restaurant but previously York College for Girls. On the …

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Dean's Park

York’s first Minster

York’s first minster church was a small wooden affair, built during the reign of King Edwin of Deira, following his conversion by the Gregorian missionary Paulinus in 626AD. Famously described …

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Alma Sophia church, York Minster chapter house

Alma Sophia, Minster Yard

The Anglo-Saxon scholar Alcuin describes how he and the then Archbishop of York – Eanbald – built a church in honour of the previous Archbishop – Ælberht. Dedicated to Holy Wisdom (Alma …

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