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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Dating back to the 15th Century, there has probably been a structure on the site of the Royal Oak since Viking Times. One of York’s oldest pubs, it was a …
Located in the heart of York, the building stands over part of the Roman city wall. And within the boundary of its churchyard, a fragment of cross-shaft was found built …
Built in 1470, the lodge, next to St Olave’s Church, was the main entrance into the abbey. It was here that abbey guests would rest and where the poor could …
Dating from the 14th century, Bedern Hall was the refectory, or dining hall, for York Minster’s choristers. Known as Vicars Choral, there were 36 of them. A bridge, now destroyed, …
Hidden behind a modern office block façade until the 1980s, the oldest parts of Barley Hall date from 1360, when it was built as a townhouse for Nostell Priory, the …
Grays Court is possibly the oldest continuously occupied house in the United Kingdom. Dating back in part to 1080 and commissioned by the first Norman Archbishop of York to provide …
The name Mulberry Hall has been applied to this site since 1372. It was the house and grounds of the Bishop of Chester. Some of the current building dates from …
Dating from the 1320s, they were built for the Minster’s priests. The cottages are notable for their overhangs where the upper floors project into the street beyond the lower floors. …
St Leonard’s was the largest medieval hospital in England and cared for the ill and infirm of York. Originally founded as St Peter’s hospital in 936, it once consisted of …