Wall Approximately 5 Metres North East of the Kings Manor

WALL APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES NORTH EAST OF THE KINGS MANOR, EXHIBITION SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1257859
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1983
List Entry Name:
Wall Approximately 5 Metres North East of the Kings Manor
Statutory Address:
WALL APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES NORTH EAST OF THE KINGS MANOR, EXHIBITION SQUARE

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1257859
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1983
Date of most recent amendment:
14-Mar-1997
List Entry Name:
Wall Approximately 5 Metres North East of the Kings Manor
Statutory Address 1:
WALL APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES NORTH EAST OF THE KINGS MANOR, EXHIBITION SQUARE

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WALL APPROXIMATELY 5 METRES NORTH EAST OF THE KINGS MANOR, EXHIBITION SQUARE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
York (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SE 60064 52195

Details

YORK

SE6052SW EXHIBITION SQUARE 1112-1/27/314 Wall approximately 5 metres 24/06/83 north-east of The King's Manor (Formerly Listed as: EXHIBITION SQUARE Fragment of Precinct Walls of St Mary's Abbey to east of The King's Manor)

GV I

Fragment of wall approximately 20 metres long from the precinct walls of St Mary's Abbey, Museum Gardens (qv). c1266. Magnesian limestone with sloped coping of stone flags. Approximately 2.3 metres high with remains of three buttresses with offsets on outer side towards car park to No.9 St Leonard's Place (qv). (An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York: RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO London: 1975-: 22).

Listing NGR: SE6006652198

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Legacy System number:
463371
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York IV East, (1975), 22

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Wall Approximately 5 Metres North East of the Kings Manor

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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