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City Wall from the Red Tower to Fishergate (Postern Tower, Fishergate Bar, Fishergate Postern Tower, the Red Tower, Walmgate Bar) : York: Town wall: Mid-14th century and later: 14 June 1954
There are over 20,000 Grade II* listed buildings in England. This page is a list of these buildings in the district of the City of York in North Yorkshire . List of buildings
York is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England, with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss.The city has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a minster, castle, and city walls.
To this day, substantial portions of the walls remain, and York has more miles of intact wall than any other city in England. They are known variously as York City Walls , the Bar Walls and the Roman walls (though this last is a misnomer as very little of the extant stonework is of Roman origin, and the course of the wall has been substantially ...
The notable buildings on the street lie on the south-eastern side: 15 Market Street is a four-storey, mid-19th century building, while 21 Market Street is early 18th-century, and the Burns Hotel is mid-19th century.
The street runs north-east, from the junction of Stonegate, High Petergate and Low Petergate, to Minster Yard, opposite the south door of York Minster. All the buildings on the street are listed. On the north-west side of the street lie 1 Minster Gates (with 15th-century origins) and 3– 9 Minster Gates , a terrace of three-storey houses built ...
By the 14th-century, it was known in particular as a place to buy meat, although in the following century, only traders from outside the city could sell in the square, with York-based merchants instead confined to the nearby Shambles. The square was also the main location for the sale of fabric, and at times, baked goods, wool, candles, and ...
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