The ruins of St. Mary's Abbey a former Benedictine establishment can be found in the Museum Gardens. When Henry VIII was doing his dissolution of the monastries thing the abbey was reduced to the ruin that you see today. Other interesting buildings within the Museum Gardens include St. Leonards Hospitium (ruin), St. Mary's Hospitium a functional building, the Yorkshire Museum, Tempest Anderson Hall and an Astronomic observatory owned by the Yorkshire Philosophical Society.
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