Description

YORK

SE5952SE MUSEUM GARDENS
1112-1/12/779 St Mary's Abbey remains: Hospitium
14/06/54 and Watergate
(Formerly Listed as:
MUSEUM GARDENS
The Hospitium and Water Gate)

GV II*

Possible Abbey guesthouse and watergate attached to north-east
corner; now part of The Yorkshire Museum (qv). Lower storey of
house C14, upper storey C15, partly reconstructed and heavily
restored 1930-31: gateway c1500.
MATERIALS: lower storey of hospitium of magnesian limestone
ashlar on chamfered plinth; upper storey timber-framed with
rendered infilling; plain tile roof. Gateway of re-used
magnesian limestone, inner face of upper storey of orange
wall-tiles: unroofed. 6-bay hall and aisled undercroft.
EXTERIOR: Hospitium: 2-storey 6-bay front, with exposed
timber-frame to hall. Undercroft has rebuilt double chamfered
doorway with plank double doors on iron strap hinges in
2-centred moulded arch. Windows to left are single slits in
chamfered openings, to right of 2 lights in double chamfered
openings. Access to hall by reconstructed external staircase
to 2-centred timber doorway with double doors on C-hinges.
Windows are of 4 lights. River front: repeats main front
without doors. To left return, undercroft has three slit
lights, hall 3-light window flanked by 1-light windows: to
right return, three 2-light windows to undercroft, to hall
2-light outer windows, 5-light centre window. All multi-light
windows to undercroft have chamfered stone mullions: to hall,
timber mullions.
Watergate: incorporated in wall approximately 8 metres long,
between 6.5 and 7.5 metres high on chamfered plinth, stepped
up at left end. Cart arch is 2 centred, of 2 moulded and
chamfered orders beneath coved hoodmould: smaller foot-gate to
left is similar: both are rebated on inner side. Further left
is decayed square-headed window opening. On first floor two
square-headed windows of 2 trefoiled lights, one now
fragmentary.
INTERIOR: of Hospitium: two colonnades of octagonal columns
with moulded bases and capitals support hall floor.
Scheduled Ancient Monument.
(An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York:
RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO London:
1975-: 13-14).

Listing NGR: SE5983852070

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17549637

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments