Female prison and yard built in 1780-83 to the designs of Thomas Wilkinson and John Prince who repeated the facade design of the Court House opposite by John Carr. The prison was altered and wings added in 1802 with a podium and steps added in 1820-5...

Site of 14th century postern demolished in 1826-7. At the time of the demolition the postern consisted of a round-headed archway about 16 feet high and 11 feet wide flanked by a D-shaped tower of three storeys. The tower was 25 feet wide and projecte...

Founded on the site of a Roman fortress in 627. Present building is the fifth rebuilding dating from the 11th century. It may be reasoned that York had a cathedral in 314 from the fact that Bishop Eborius of York was a representative of the English c...

Straight trackway or droveway flanked by ditches, surviving as an earthwork on Hob Moor. The track was ploughed over in the Napoleonic period, which shows it to have originated in the late 18th century at the latest, but it may be of medieval origin.

Following enclosure of the common land in the late 1750s the land to either side of Fulford Road was split into smaller fields. The Cavalry Barracks (1795) were constructed on the east side of Fulford Road to house troops who had previously been bil...

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During groundworks for a single storey extension a significant amount of human remains were encountered- mostly being disarticulated with three articulated human burials being present. The articulated burials were laid in a supine position and orient...

Location of the cemetery associated with the pre-conquest and medieval church of St Helen Fishergate. This church was listed among the pre-Conquest foundations of the city, as it was granted to Holy Trinity Priory in 1086 as an existing church and t...

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Public and Reference Libraries. 1927, 1938 extension; some later alteration. By Brierley and Rutherford. Exterior: 2 storeys; 3-bay projecting centre block flanked by 3-bay angled wings. In centre bay, open pedimented Doric doorcase with triglyph f...