Essentials:
- What: Small Christmas Markets in a recently discovered and restored Medieval Townhouse. Stallholders and refreshments
- Where:The Barley Hall, 2 Coffee Yard Off Stonegate, York YO1 8AR
- Find on a map
- When: (in 2008) Dec, 6 - 7, and 13 - 14.
- Website:
A Medieval Christmas in a treasure of a building.:
The Barley Hall's restored Medieval rooms are colorful and suitably festive for the holiday season. The two Fayres will feature stall holders selling unusual holiday gifts, mulled wine and old fashioned seasonal treats. There will also be medieval seasonal activities.
About Barley Hall:
This place has a fabulous story. The house was built in the 14th and 15th centuries. Parts date back to a priory built in the mid 1300s. It was once the site of York's town council and the home of it's Lord Mayor.
Then, it was forgotten.
It ended up buried within a cluster of derelict workshops. It was only when a developer bought the property and began to inspect it, in the 1980s that this rare, surviving medieval townhouse was discovered. It has been saved and restored by the York Archaelogical Trust.
