St Mary's Abbey

Wandering through the Museum Gardens in York during one of our few recent sunny days, and I couldn't resist taking more photos of St Mary's Abbey.

These abbey ruins have featured before in our project, most recently in July - http://365project.org/fishers/365/2020-07-06

A brief history of the long and complicated history of this abbey were given with that shot.

I like the effect of the low sunlight has on the limestone structure, bringing out the richness of the colour in the stonework.

Ian

[Peter Dulis]

nice

[gloria jones]

Wonderful capture of the light and a super composition

[Joyce Lancaster]

Love the way the historic stonework is catching the sunlight

[Nina Ganci]

wow
Your lighting, composition is far superior in this capture
Love this
fav

[Margaret Brown]

Great light and details

[carol white]

Lovely ruins and carvings.Fav😊

[PhotoCrazy]

Wonderful!

[Babs]

It still looks majestic even as a ruin,

[Pyrrhula]

Great shot of those beautiful ruin walls. Fav.

[Pat]

Looking resplendent in the sunshine, great capture of this lovely old ruin, fav.

[KWind]

Pretty shot with lovely lighting.

[Kathy A]

Wonderful ruins

[Casablanca]

It is irresistible, the colour of the York stone is so lovely in the sunshine

[John Falconer]

Fabulous sunny shot.

[Dione Giorgio]

Beautiful and lighting. So much history in ruins like this.

[Janet]

A stunning photo - fav! I recall mystery plays being performed there.

[Fisher Family]

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Thank you all for your lovely comments and favs, they are very much appreciated.

The church when intact must have been a very impressive sight. There are artifacts from this church on display in the Yorkshire Museum, which is built over part of the abbey site.

Janet, this was indeed used for performances of the Mystery Plays, with the ruins making an excellent backdrop to the plays. More recently the Mystery Plays have been performed in York Minster, or extracts have been performed on carts at various sites in the city centre.

Ian