St. Mary’s Abbey was established in 1932 by the nuns of Holy Cross Abbey, a Cistercian order in Dorset county, in England, which had numerous sisters from Ireland or with Irish roots.

NEXT time you are in Museum Gardens, walk past the front of the Yorkshire Museum and stand on the lawn between the museum and the remains of St Mary’s Abbey. Hunt around in the grass and you ...

An 800-year-old figure of Christ that once adorned St Mary's Abbey in York will be returned to the city after nearly two centuries. The rare object, made in Limoges, France, in the 13th Century ...

Archaeological dig at Museum Gardens in York reveals lost buildings that were once part of medieval St Mary's Abbey By Grace Newton Published 15th Aug 2021, 06:00 BST ...

Elbow opened the Live at Museum Gardens series in York on Thursday (July 3) in what was a celebration of the band’s decades ...

A sumptuous new book about the abbey and its precinct – St Mary’s Abbey and the King’s Manor, York – researched and written for the York Archaeological Trust by Barbara Wilson and Francis ...

An 800-year-old figure of Christ that once adorned St Mary's Abbey in York will be returned to the city after nearly two centuries. The rare object, made in Limoges, France, in the 13th Century ...