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Monument Type - Benedictine Abbey
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A0553 Yorkshire Museum lift building Parts of the 14th century St Mary's Abbey school and dormitory were exposed together with the stone-lined drain which ran beneath the building to join the drainage system previously recorded in 1984. Foundations of earlier, probably 12th century walls were recorded beneath the floor of the school.
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A0466 Yorkshire Museum Evidence of St Mary's Abbey was observed, immediately below the floor slabs in the museum basement.
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A0455 Museum Gardens, Tempest Anderson Hall Part of the southern and eastern walls of the southern transept of the late 13th century church of St Mary's Abbey were exposed. Investigation showed that the foundations of the eastern wall had re-used masonry from the earlier church. The mortared and cobble limestone raft of the apsed south transept of the earlier 11th century, c.1088, abbey church was also exposed and recorded. Painted wall plaster on two of the wall's foundation stones could have been part of the earlier Norman abbey church. -
A0356 Museum Gardens (IBM) A robbed cobble and mortar foundation connected with the cloister walk or the western range of buildings was encountered. This part of the layout of St Mary's Abbey was found to be sealed by substantial layers of 19th century levelling deposits which were approximately 0.90m deep.
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A0353 Museum Gardens (sewer trench) Precinct and internal building walls of St Mary's Abbey were recorded after being observed in contractor's trenches.
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A0359 Museum Gardens (Flood Defences) The first trench uncovered the remains of a 19th century open air swimming bath. Subsequent activities of workmen resulted in the collapse of part of the inner face of the Abbey's precinct wall, which showed evidence of robbing post dating the Dissolution of the Abbey in 1539. Further trenches were dug between the Hospitium and the river. These recover stretches of the Abbey precinct wall and structural remains which were interpreted as the vestiges of kitchens and other offices of the Abbey, mentioned by Drake.