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The atmospheric ruins of St. Mary's are amongst my favourite sights in York. Located in the gardens of the Yorkshire museum, the ruins are only a small part of a once great medieval abbey, which was built as far back as 1080. The west wing of the Abbey is the most visible part of the ruins while parts of its Chapter House have been incorporated into the nearby museum. Leave a Comment Phone: +44 (01904) 687687
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The Yorkshire Museum stands in the grounds of St. Mary's Abbey, just inside the town walls. This was my favourite museum in York and we spent an enjoyable couple of hours here escaping the rain and learning about the history of York.
The museum has impressive exhibits on the early history of York, in particular on Roman York. There is also good coverage of the Viking and the Anglo-Saxon periods, while a separate section shows remains of parts of St. Mary's Abbey. The star exhibit in the collection is the 15th Century Middleham Jewel, found as recently as 1985.
Entry to the museum costs 4 pounds for adults. Leave a Comment Phone: +44 (01904) 687687
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 St. Olave's Church by sabsi
The church used to be a monastery. When it got too small for the monks they used St. Mary's instead. You can see the ruins of St. Mary in the Museum Gardens still. This all took place in the 11th century. In the 15th century the church was rebuilt. Then in the 17th century during the civil war the roof of St. Olave was used as a gun platform in the siege of York. The church was heavily damaged so construction work started another time. Leave a Comment
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 by btex
Also, Roman ruins can be found near St. Mary's. The picture shows the Multi-angular Tower - constucted around 300 A.D. as part of the Roman walls which protected Old York. On the other side of the tower, there are some old Roman coffins on the ground. More ruins of the Roman wall are around here...it's actually a pretty creepy area...especially at sunset. http://www.britannia.com/tours/york/york21.html Leave a Comment
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 York's art gallery - it's
free by iandsmith
The gallery's outstanding collection of British and European art spanning the last 600 years is now displayed in new themed areas under the headings of people, places, stories, devotion and morality. I do love that last one.
These themed areas also feature guest contemporary works, including video, photography, ceramics and painting, but one of the things I enjoy about the less well known galleries is they often have things you'd never see elsewhere.
An installation of dyed-black turkey feathers, called Flock, confirms my theory on this. Thinks "They'll be flocking in to see this". Leave a Comment Phone: +44 (01904) 687687
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 Yorkshire Museum by cheekymarieh
In the museum gardens, you will find peacocks wandering among the ruins of St Mary’s Abbey, once the most influential Benedictine monastery in northern England. In the basement of the Yorkshire Museum there is an exhibition on what abbey life was like. Leave a Comment Phone: 01904 629745 Fax:01904 651221Directions: Just across the road from Lendal Bridge (the Minster side) is the entrance to the Museum Gardens. The Museum is clearly signposted.Website: www.york.yorkshire.museum Other Contact: Open daily 10am - 5pm
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 St Marys Abbey ruins by Britannia2
The abbey estate occupied the entire site of the Museum Garden and the abbot was one of the most powerful clergymen of his day, on a par with the Archbishop of York.
The monks would spend their days working in abbey administration, copying books, trading with merchants, providing food and supplies for the monastery, managing the abbey’s estates and helping the poor.
Visitors can see the remains of the walls of the nave and crossing of the abbey church, where the monks prayed and sang, and the cloister, where the monks washed their clothes, contemplated and were allowed to speak.
King Henry VIII banned all monasteries in England in 1530s. The monks at St Mary's were pensioned off in 1540 and the abbey buildings were converted into a palace for the King when he visited York.
Gradually they fell into ruins and were used as agricultural buildings before being excavated by the Yorkshire Philosophical Society in the 1820s. Leave a Comment
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The Yorkshire Museum was opened in 1830 by the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, a society devoted to the study of science through public display and study of archaeology, geology and natural history collections. It was one of the first purpose-built museums in the country.
The museum was built on the site of the medieval St Mary's Abbey and remains of the abbey can be seen on the lower floor of the museum. The story of how the monks lived is told here. The ruins of the Abbey's church, gatehouse and precinct wall can be seen in the Museum Gardens.
Further on in the museum our Hunters and Hunted gallery focuses on the sea creatures which lived millions of years ago in the time of the dinosaurs.
Adult- £5Child - £3.50Under 5s - FreeConcessions - £4Residents with a York Card - FreeTwo adults with:One child - £12Two children - £15& £3 per child after that (2007 prices). However once tickets are purchased you can go back for free for up to a year.
If you do not want to visit the museum the grounds are very welll worth seeing.
Closes 2/11/09 until 1/8/10. Leave a Comment
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 by aadil
The museum offers 2000 years of Yorkshire's fascinating heritage and has some of the finest archeological collections in Europe. The famous Middleham jewel is also on display along with a lot of artifacts belonging to the Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Viking, and Medieval times. The York Abbey ruins are also on the same premises and part of the ruins are preserved in the museum building. The York Observatory is also in the garden and houses a very beautiful working telescope of olden times (made by famous telescope maker T. Cooke & Sons). Leave a Comment Other Contact: Tel: (01904) 551800 Fax: (01904)
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