Winter Colour - Museum Gardens

I just could not resist the winter colour with St. Mary's Abbey in the background. at the Museum gardens. Can you see the plumb Robin on the right hand side of the photo just above the dogwood?

Walls in Marygate

From Marygate Tower the walls continue alongside Marygate down to the river. The walls here mark the boundary of the current Museum Gardens and what was once the boundary of St. Mary's Abbey.

St. Mary's Abbey ruins - Museum Gardens

Framed by trees the ruins of St. Mary's Abbey are in the Museum Gardens. The gardens were set up by the Yorkshire Philosophical Society as a botanical garden shortly after they were formed in 1822 and the Museum was built in 1829. The museum is known as the Yorkshire Museum and is administered by York Museums Trust which is an independent charitable trust which manages York Castle Museum, Yorkshire Museum and Gardens, York Art Gallery and York St Mary's.

ST Mary's Abbey Ruins - Museum Gardens

When entering from the Marygate entrance this is the first glimpse of the ruins of the ruins of the Benedictine St. Mary's Abbey.

St. Mary's Abbey - Museum Gardens

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.