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Fishergate Tower Built in 1507 on the site of an earlier tower called Talkan Tower - named after Robert de Talkan, Mayor of York in 1399. The small pedestrian gate 'Fishergate Postern' once had a portcullis and controlled access to the City. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: SONY Model: DSC-W200 |
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Fishergate This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: SONY Model: DSC-W200 |
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Clifford's Tower In 1068, William the Conqueror constructed a large mound (motte) on the banks of the River Ouse and built a wooden castle at the top. Just over 100 years later, amid the riots in York when a group of Jews took refuge in the tower, it was burned to the ground. Something of a gruesome legend exists about this incident. Apparently, the reddish vein running through the brickwork on the outside of the tower, was 'dyed' by the blood of the Jewish victims as they were mercilessly slaughtered. What remains today dates largely from the 13th century, albeit with some later alterations. This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: SONY Model: DSC-W200 |
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Clifford's Tower In 1245 Henry III ordered the tower to be rebuilt and strengthened. Consequently, a quatrefoil tower of four overlapping circles - resembling a four-leafed clover - was built, as well as a curtain wall with semi-circular towers, and two gateways built around the bailey of York Castle. The stone building was completed in 1313, but less than fifty years later the castle cracked from top to bottom when part of the mound subsided into the moat. In 1322, Roger de Clifford was hanged by chains from the wall of the tower for opposing Edward II, and after that the keep was known as 'Clifford's Tower'. This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: SONY Model: DSC-W200 |
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Wall walk leading to Monk Bar This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: SONY Model: DSC-W200 |
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The Royal York Victorian hotel near York Railway Station, built 1878-1896 by Thomas Prosser and William Peachey for the North East Railway Company. This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: SONY Model: DSC-W200 |
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Ruins of St Mary's Abbey The Benedictine abbey was founded in 11th century and became the wealthiest religious house in the north of England. It was closed during the dissolution. This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: SONY Model: DSC-W200 |
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Ruins of St Mary's Abbey This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: SONY Model: DSC-W200 |
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Ruins of St Mary's Abbey This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: SONY Model: DSC-W200 |
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Wedding at RC St Wilfrid's Church This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: SONY Model: DSC-W200 |
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RC St Wilfrid's Church This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: SONY Model: DSC-W200 |
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RC St Wilfrid's Church This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: SONY Model: DSC-W200 |
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RC St Wilfrid's Church York's central Catholic Church was opened in 1864 and built in a Victorian Gothic style. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: SONY Model: DSC-W200 |
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Lendal Bridge details The parapet of the Bridge features the ornate designs of the white rose of York, the crossed keys of the Diocese of York, and the lions of England. Further ironwork displays York’s coat of arms and the letters V and A for Victoria and Albert. This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: SONY Model: DSC-W200 |
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Fishergate Bar This gate dating from the 15th century. The inscription above the arch commemorates William Todd, Lord Mayor of York, knighted by Henry VII in 1487 for his support against Lambert Simnel, pretender to the throne and defeated at the Battle of Stoke Fields. During the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I, Roman Catholics were imprisoned in the towers that once stood above the gate. Lunatics were also incarcerated here 1598 - 1633. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: SONY Model: DSC-W200 |
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Coffee Yard, Barley Hall The oldest parts of Barley Hall date from about 1360 when the Hall was built as the York townhouse of Nostell Priory, the monastery near Wakefield in West Yorkshire. A new wing was added in about 1430. Soon after, the Hall became the home of a leading York citizen, William Snawsell goldsmith, Alderman and Lord Mayor of York. This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: SONY Model: DSC-W200 |
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Barley Hall interior This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: SONY Model: DSC-W200 |
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Coney Street Ancient thoroughfare in York with Roman origins, on the right are the remains of St.Martin-le-Grand Church severely damaged by a German bomb in 1942 partially rebuilt and restored in 1961 by G.G.Pace. This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: SONY Model: DSC-W200 |
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Goodramgate, the Royal Oak This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: SONY Model: DSC-W200 |
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Museum Gardens unusual scene This picture appears in the following picture tour: Camera Make: SONY Model: DSC-W200 |
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