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City Walls, gates, posterns (not including the section from Bootham Bar to Monk Bar, N of the Minster, now part of National Monument No 13280), moats, mounds, Bayle (or Baile) Hill, St Leonard's Hospital and Merchant Taylor's Hall, Aldwark is a complex of defensive and institutional medieval structures in York, Yorkshire. The city walls represent multiple phases of construction spanning the Roman period through the late medieval era, with substantial portions of the fourteenth-century work surviving as prominent stone ramparts. The gates and posterns provided controlled access and egress, whilst the associated moats and mounds formed part of the wider defensive system protecting the medieval city. St Leonard's Hospital, located near Bootham, and Merchant Taylor's Hall in Aldwark are medieval institutional buildings of civic and commercial significance, with their survival contributing to understanding of York's urban topography and social history from the medieval period through to the early modern era.
City Walls, gates, posterns (not including the section from Bootham Bar to Monk Bar, N of the Minster, now part of National Monument No 13280), moats, mounds, Bayle (or Baile) Hill, St Leonard's Hospital and Merchant Taylor's Hall, Aldwark is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1004910. View the official record →
City Walls, gates, posterns (not including the section from Bootham Bar to Monk Bar, N of the Minster, now part of National Monument No 13280), moats, mounds, Bayle (or Baile) Hill, St Leonard's Hospital and Merchant Taylor's Hall, Aldwark is a complex of defensive and institutional medieval structures in York, Yorkshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1004910.
City Walls, gates, posterns (not including the section from Bootham Bar to Monk Bar, N of the Minster, now part of National Monument No 13280), moats, mounds, Bayle (or Baile) Hill, St Leonard's Hospital and Merchant Taylor's Hall, Aldwark is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1004910.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Standing tower and below ground remains of St Lawrence's Church and associated burial ground (0.3 km), York Castle: motte and bailey castle, tower keep castle (including Clifford's Tower), and site of part of Romano-British fort-vicus and Anglian cemetery (0.4 km), St George's medieval chapel 120m south of York Castle (0.4 km).
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