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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
A ghostly child has been seen staring out of the window in the upper floor of this ancient building. According to legend, her parents contracted plague and the family was …
This pub is supposedly haunted by a young girl, run over by a cart, and a poltergeist; mist has been seen rising inside the building, lights switched on and off, …
York Castle was originally a large fortified complex, comprising the keep of Clifford’s Tower, prisons and various other buildings. Its first incarnation was as a wooden structure, rapidly assembled following …