Here is the “Micklegate Bar”, which is one of the great gates through the old City wall into the centre of York.
I sketched this outside a bar called “Micklegate Social”. The staff were inside, cleaning and setting up. They very kindly lent me a chair!
The city wall goes off to left and right. I put a two people in, to give you an idea of the scale. They are high up, level with the lowest windows.
“Micklegate” is the name of a street which heads North from the gate. Later on I had breakfast at “Partisan”, a café just up from Micklegate Bar. Recommended!
Outside the wall, to the North West, is the park surrounding the York Museum. I made a picture of the ruins of St Mary’s Abbey.
The original church on the site was founded in 1055. In 1089, William Rufus, third son of William the Conqueror, laid the foundation stone for the Norman Church dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It was an abbey for the Benedictine monastery on this site. 450 years later the monastery was closed, in 1539, under Henry VIII.
The current ruins are 750 years old. They date from a rebuilding in 1271.
Micklegate Bar, Partisan Café, and St Mary’s abbey 
St Mary’s Abbey (top left)
Jane Sketching 