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15. The buildings in Museum Gardens including St Mary's Abbey
The entrance to the Museum, with the ruins of St Mary's Abbey in the distance. The building, dating from 1827, is built in the neo-classical style and houses collections of archaeology (prehistoric-Roman-Viking etc.), natural history, geology and pottery from all over Yorkshire.
The ruins of St Mary's Abbey, derived from a monastery founded by Stephen of Lastingham about 1080. King William Rufus granted more land to enable the great Abbey to be built and laid the foundation stone himself! Only the foundations of the Norman building remain and most of what you see is late medieval stonework.
The two storeyed 13-16th century Hospitium 'guest house' of St Mary's Abbey. The building has a stone built lower floor and a framed timbered upper structure. Some of the original water gateh survives on the left, which was a grand entrance to the abbey from the river. The Hospitium has been extensively rebuilt and is now part of the museum.
There is also the multangular tower on page 13 * previous page <-> next page *
* The beautiful and historic City of York is one of the most popular tourist destinations in England and full of locations displaying its heritage. The visitor can explore the old walls, museums, many fine ancient medieval churches, The York Minster, Roman and Viking sites as well as the old pubs! There is plenty of accommodation and places to stay to cover all budgets and innumerable attractions for the tourist to visit in the City of York, all of which can be reached on foot and choices of walks abound. * page updated Nov 10th 2007 * EMAIL Phil Brown * images-photographs-pictures-webshots-photos-snaps of walking around York © Dr W P Brown * Scenes from walking around other cities in Europe: London, England * Paris, France * Dublin, Ireland for a quick pictorial visit! |
