St Mary's Abbey (York)

Loading map...

{"minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"mappingservice":"leaflet","width":"34%","height":"400px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"zoom":false,"defzoom":9,"layers":["OpenStreetMap","NLS","Stamen.Terrain"],"image layers":[],"overlays":[],"resizable":false,"fullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":true,"cluster":false,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clustermaxradius":80,"clusterspiderfy":true,"geojson":"","clicktarget":"","imageLayers":[],"locations":[],"imageoverlays":null}

Ruins of St Mary's Abbey, York

[[File:|thumb|right|500px|St Mary's Abbey, York / Neil Clifton, 4 Aug. 2014, Creative Commons, via Geograph.]]

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-05-09. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2019-05-09.

Gazetteers

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.

Sources

• Wikipedia: St Mary's Abbey, York.

Maps

• 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CLXXIV.6 (1892; surveyed 1889)
• 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CLXXIV.6 (1909; rev. 1907) (georeferenced)
• 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CLXXIV.6 (1909; rev. 1907)
• 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CLXXIV.6 (1931; rev. 1929)
• 25" O.S. map Yorkshire CLXXIV.6 (1941; rev. 1937)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire 174 (1853; surveyed 1846-51)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CLXXIV.NW (1910; rev. 1907) (georeferenced)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CLXXIV.NW (1910; rev. 1907)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CLXXIV.NW (1932; rev. 1929)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CLXXIV.NW (1946; rev. 1938)
• 6" O.S. map Yorkshire CLXXIV.NW (1952; rev. 1950).

Background

• History of York: Life in the Abbey.

• 

  The ruins of St Mary's Abbey: The ruins of St Mary's Abbey, first built in 1088, are all that remain of one of the most powerful Benedictine monasteries in England and are located in the ten-acre botanical gardens / Alan Walker, 1974, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  The ruins of St Mary's Abbey, York / Jeff Buck, 10 Dec. 1978, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  St Mary's Abbey: The ruins of the north wall of St Mary's Abbey, a ruined Benedictine abbey that lies in what are now the Yorkshire Museum Gardens / David Dixon, 10 Jan. 1979, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  St Mary's Abbey, York / Philip Halling, 19 May 1980, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  St Mary's Abbey: The Ruins of St Mary's Abbey in the grounds of the Yorkshire Museum / Gerald England, July 1999, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  St. Mary's Watergate / Matthew Hatton, 3 Feb. 2007, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  St Mary's Abbey ruins in Museum Gardens, York / Stanley Howe, 18 Apr. 2007, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  Entrance to St Mary's Abbey / Tony Thomas, 22 June 2007, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  St Mary's Abbey Ruins, Museum Gardens, York / Kevin Gordon, 16 July 2008, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  Ruins of St.Mary's Abbey in York / Richard Croft, 16 Mar. 2009, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  St.Mary's Abbey / Richard Croft, 16 Mar. 2009, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  St.Mary's Lodge: Lodge built from the remains of St.Mary's Abbey gatehouse / Richard Croft, 16 Mar. 2009, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  St.Mary's Hospitium / Richard Croft, 16 Mar. 2009, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  St Mary's Water Gate / Richard Croft, 16 Mar. 2009, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  York: ruins of St Mary's Abbey / Christopher Hilton, 26 Aug. 2009, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  Ruins of St Mary's Abbey church / Phil Champion, 12 Dec. 2009.

• 

  Ruins of St Mary's Abbey Church: Arch on north-west side of central crossing. Most standing remains of the abbey church are at the north-west end / Phil Champion, 12 Dec. 2009.

• 

  Ruin of St Mary's Abbey Church: The standing remains date from the rebuilding of the church in gothic style between 1270 and 1279. The Bendedictine abbey was founded in 1086 / Phil Champion, 12 Dec. 2009, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  Walls of St Mary's abbey / Michael Jagger, 9 jan. 2010, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  Remains of St Mary's Abbey, York / Michael Jagger, 20 Feb. 2010, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  St Mary's Abbey: Looking across the daffodils in the flower beds of Museum Gardens to St Mary's Abbey ruins / D.S. Pugh, 27 Mar. 2010, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  St Mary's Abbey, North Wall / David Dixon, 4 Apr. 2010, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  St Mary's Abbey / David Dixon, 4 Apr. 2010, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  St Mary's Abbey, West Wall / David Dixon, 4 Apr. 2010, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  / David Dixon, 4 Apr. 2010, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  Gateway to former St Mary's Abbey, York / Phil Champion, 21 Nov. 2010, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  Scaffolding at the Hospitium - York Museum Gardens / Phil Champion, 21 Nov. 2010, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  Base of column - ruins of St Mary's Abbey Church, York / Phil Champion, 21 Nov. 2010, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  Precinct wall of St Mary's Abbey, Marygate / Phil Champion, 21 Nov. 2010, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  Water Tower, St. Mary's Abbey: Licence to crenellate was granted to St. Mary's Abbey in 1318 and this tower by the river dates from soon after that / Jonathan Thacker, 10 May 2011, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  Ruins of the abbey church / Pauline E, 12 Feb. 2012, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  St Mary's Abbey York / Edward-McMaihin, 22 July 2013, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  Abbey ruins / Pauline E, 29 Sep. 2013, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  St Mary's Tower / David Dixon, 29 June, 2014, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  St Mary's Abbey Tower: One of the ruined towers of St Mary's Abbey / David Dixon, 29 June 2014, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  St Mary's Abbey, York / Neil Clifton, 4 Aug. 2014, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  York: St. Mary's Abbey: part of the Hospitium / Neil Clifton, 4 Aug. 2014, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  St. Mary's Abbey: The Abbey of St Mary is a ruined Benedictine abbey in what are now the Yorkshire Museum Gardens / Paul Farmer, 21 Mar. 2017, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  St. Mary's Abbey: The Abbey of St Mary is a ruined Benedictine abbey in what are now the Yorkshire Museum Gardens / Paul Farmer, 25 Mar. 2017, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  Ruins of St Mary's Abbey York / Roy Hughes, 15 Apr. 2017, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  St Mary's Tower: Tower on the corner of Marygate and Bootham, part of the walls of St Mary's Abbey, the whole site being grade I listed / Ian Capper, 10 July 2017, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  St Mary's Abbey remains: Precinct walls / Jonathan Hutchins, 1 Dec. 2017, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  York, abbey ruins / Mike Faherty, 19 Feb. 2018, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  York, King's Manor: On the site of the residence of the abbot of St. Mary's, rebuilt in C15, later to be headquarters of the Council of the North; later, a school for the blind, now part of the University of York / Mike Faherty, 19 Feb. 2018, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  The ruined abbey of St Mary in York / Richard Humphrey, 20 Mar. 2018, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  Artists' Garden at rear of York Art Gallery: This area at the rear of the art gallery was part of the precinct of St Mary's Abbey / Phil Champion, 19 Nov. 2018, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

• 

  Remains of St Mary's Abbey Gerald England, 14 Apr. 2019, Creative Commons, via Geograph.

Template:PnItemNav