A Visit To York 0109
The first Treasurer for York Minster was appointed in 1091, although the Treasurer's House we see here (right by the north end of the Minster) was mostly rebuilt post-Reformation in the early 1600s, with much restoration work in the early 1900s. It was later gifted to the National Trust.
As you might expect for such an old city, the house is reputedly haunted, not just with spirits from the 1600s or 1700s, but right back to spectral Roman soldiers!
Writer and patron of the arts, Elizabeth Montagu (1718 - 1800), founder of the Bluestockings movement, lived here .
Sadly it was closed for the day by the time I was passing, so I had to settle for a couple of photos taken through the gate railings as the front of the building was in evening shadows, with just a splash of the last light of the day hitting the very central part of the building.
A Visit To York 0109
The first Treasurer for York Minster was appointed in 1091, although the Treasurer's House we see here (right by the north end of the Minster) was mostly rebuilt post-Reformation in the early 1600s, with much restoration work in the early 1900s. It was later gifted to the National Trust.
As you might expect for such an old city, the house is reputedly haunted, not just with spirits from the 1600s or 1700s, but right back to spectral Roman soldiers!
Writer and patron of the arts, Elizabeth Montagu (1718 - 1800), founder of the Bluestockings movement, lived here .
Sadly it was closed for the day by the time I was passing, so I had to settle for a couple of photos taken through the gate railings as the front of the building was in evening shadows, with just a splash of the last light of the day hitting the very central part of the building.