Day-time in York
Hidden gems
If you look up and around you when you're walking through York - you’ll notice little faces looking down at you, peculiar old signs and fascinating details on York's old buildings including:
Micklegate Bar Museum - Micklegate Bar has stood guard over the main road entering York from the London direction for around 800 years
Richard III Museum - a modern day trial presenting the case both for and against Britain's most notorious King
Bar Convent Museum - the history of Christianity and a working convent
Holy Trinity Church - one of York's finest medieval churches, hemmed in and hidden by buildings on all sides
St Mary's Abbey - the statuesque ruins of St Mary's Abbey lie in Museum Gardens
Statue of Constantine the Great - a fitting reminder that a great Roman military headquarters once stood on this very site
Margaret Clitherow’s House - this tiny Shambles house was home to butcher's wife Margaret Clitherow, a Roman Catholic who sheltered priests from persecution
Barley Hall - this meticulously restored medieval townhouse once the home of the Lord Mayor of York
Treasurer's House - originally the Minster's Treasurer lived on this site
Merchant Adventurers' Hall - the splendidly named Merchant Adventurers were one of medieval York's most prestigious guilds
York Brewery - York's award-winning independent brewery
For more detail see www.visityork.org (www.visityork.org).