On the site of a pre-conquest building, it includes remnants of a Benedictine priory church. It is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as one of five great northern churches. Enclosed by a wall, the priory’s seven acre grounds would have included an orchard, fishpond, gardens, workshops and an infirmary.
Holy Trinity Micklegate Folklore:
Many white-clad apparitions have been seen within this ancient priory church. One of them is allegedly an abbess, murdered while trying to prevent Henry VIII’s men from storming her church. Another phantom is reportedly a woman from the Middle Ages. During an outbreak of plague her child died, but was buried in a separate grave to her already-dead husband. Come the time, she wished to be buried with her child, but her request was not honoured. She now roams the area, still looking for the grave of her child.
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