Moonlit Rail ™
Saint Mary's Abbey
This is one view of what is left of Saint Mary's Abbey, whose ruins are nearly adjacent York Minster. Though built in 1089, most of the ruins you see here are later medieval.
Saint Mary's Abbey was a prominent Benedictine institution, suppressed by Henry VIII in 1539. Many of the monks here left in the twelfth century to found Fountains Abbey; they did not find life here at Saint Mary's Abbey austere enough, so it is said.