SAINTS ALL

This is the Church of All Saints, which stands in Pavement - one of the earliest paved streets in York.
It is the Guild Church of York and 34 Lord Mayors are buried here.

The present building dates from the 14th century, but there has been a church on this site for even longer. The earliest mention was in the Domesday Book - 1086 - and an Anglo-Saxon grave cover, dating from the 10th century, is the earliest evidence for a burial ground.

This is the elegant lantern on top of the tower, built around 1400. Throughout the mediaeval period, the light was kept burning at night to guide travellers into the city through the wolf-infested Forest of Galtres to the North.

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