This is the majority of what is left of St Mary’s Abbey in York, once the richest abbey in the north of England. It is a ruined Benedictine abbey that lies in what are now the Yorkshire Museum Gardens. The original abbey was founded on this site in 1055 and dedicated to Saint Olave. It was disestablished in 1539 in the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII.
Taking only photographs – leaving only footprints
