St William's College
Timber-framed medieval college built for Minster chantry priests, with a jettied upper storey.
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This guide to St William's College in York starts with a timber-framed building beside the Minster and a problem the Archbishop of York needed solving in the fourteen sixties: his chantry priests, paid in advance to pray for the dead. It follows the house through the Reformation, the Civil War and the Victorian years, and the neighbour who stepped in. Stand facing the doorway on College Street, where the carved saints flank the entrance.
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