The Abbey of St Mary is a ruined Benedictine abbey in York, England and a scheduled monument.
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
An abbey is a type of monastery used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess. Abbeys provide a complex of buildings and land for religious activities, work, and housing of Christian monks and nuns.
The cloister of Sénanque Abbey, Provence
Church of the former Bath Abbey, Somerset
An interior of the Bridgettine's Nådendal Abbey, a medieval Catholic monastery in Naantali, Finland
Abbey of St Catherine, Mount Sinai