196 - Fishergate Bar is one of the smaller gateways in York city walls. It faces south towards Selby.
‘Barram Fishergate’ is the first documented reference to the bar, in 1315. A central stone above the archway reveals the date of the current bar. It contains the York coat of arms and a translation of the inscription indicates that sixty yards of the wall, including the bar, was built in 1487 under Sir William Tod, mayor of York.
But just two years later, in 1489, Fishergate Bar suffered considerable damage in the Yorkshire peasants’ revolt against Henry VII. The rebels burned the gates of the bar after murdering the Earl of Northumberland. The gateway was bricked up soon after and wasn’t re-opened until 1834, to give better access for the cattle market that used to exist along the exterior of the walls between here and Walmgate Bar.
Today Fishergate Bar is again partly blocked by bollards, to prevent motor traffic, but still allow pedestrians and cyclists to use it.
Thank you Marie - but before they could build, the stones had to be transported from 10 miles west of here - quite a task in those days! (They came by river, which would be a journey of closer to 20 miles)
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Thank you Marie - but before they could build, the stones had to be transported from 10 miles west of here - quite a task in those days! (They came by river, which would be a journey of closer to 20 miles)
Thank you Bob - it would certainly have been hard work!