Founded in 1055, York's Benedictine abbey was substantially destroyed in 1539 during King Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries. In 1929 it was described by E. Ridsdale Tate, a British antiquary, as a "venerable pile in the evening of its glory."
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| The Yorkshire Museum |
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| The medieval Hospitium, the abbey's guest house. |
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