Marygate
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Marygate is a street in York, England, running just north of the city centre. Built in the Middle Ages, it gets its name from St Mary's Abbey and the Viking word "gata," meaning street. The area where
St Mary's Tower, at the north-east end of the street
Looking south-west from Bootham, showing the abbey walls
View north-east, on the central part of Marygate
Looking south-west on the lower part of Marygate
St Mary's Abbey, York
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The Abbey of St Mary is a ruined Benedictine abbey in York, England and a scheduled monument.
Marygate
…also lay on the street, the area later becoming known as "Earlsburgh". Built in the Medieval period, the street known as St Marygate, was named for St Mary's Abbey, within the liberty of which it was located. It lay immediately north of the abbey, from which it was separated by a ditch and narrow strip of land…
Ruins of St Mary's Abbey Church
Ruins of the abbey church from the southern end
The abbot's house
A portion of the remaining walls