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These ruins in York’s Museum Gardens are all that remain of a monastic house which was among the wealthiest in England with ...
St. Mary’s Abbey was established in 1932 by the nuns ... Karen Cox for The New York Times “They are here mostly to sort of see what the life is like, and they can attend the prayers ...
A light and sound installation will be held amid the ruins of an abbey in York later this year.The Museum Gardens are home to ...
A sumptuous new book about the abbey and its precinct – St Mary’s Abbey and the King’s Manor, York – researched and written for the York Archaeological Trust by Barbara Wilson and Francis ...
An 800-year-old figure of Christ that once adorned St Mary's Abbey in York will be returned to the city after nearly two centuries. The rare object, made in Limoges, France, in the 13th Century ...
The monastic ruins are the largest in the country and date back to 1132, when 32 monks left St Mary's Abbey in York to set up a new community. The abbey was dissolved in 1539 by King Henry VIII ...
A sumptuous new book about the abbey and its precinct – St Mary’s Abbey and the King’s Manor, York – researched and written for the York Archaeological Trust by Barbara Wilson and Francis ...