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York Civic Trust’s Plaques

Map of Plaques

Here is a Google map of our plaques, with red pins marking places, and blue pins marking people. By clicking on the box in the top right (“view larger map”), a new tab will open with a list of all plaques on the left.


List of Plaques

The following plaques are to be found in the City.  Where our volunteer historians have compiled information on the subject of the plaque, you can click on the name to take you to that information.

This page is currently under construction – we apologise for any missing links or images.

Abbey Walls Shutters, Marygate

All Saints’ North Street

All Saint's Pavement plaque

All Saints’ Pavement Churchyard

Ancient Society of York Florists, Colliergate

George Townsend Andrews

Anglian Tower

Archbishop Holgate’s Grammar School Playing Fields Gates

Robert Aske


Assembly Rooms
Association of Voluntary Guides, York Library
Auden, W H

Backhouse, James
Baines, Henry
Barry, John
Bedern Chapel
Best, Mary Ellen
Black Swan, Peasholme Green
Bootham
Butterworth, George

Carr, John
Carr, William
Charles I Coat of Arms, King’s Manor
Cholera Burial Ground
Clifton Bridge
Clitherow, Margaret
Constantine the Great
Cooke, Thomas

Corder, Stephen Pit
Coverdale, Miles
Craven, Mary Ann
Crichton, Edna Annie
Cruse, Catherine and Mary
Cumberland House

Davygate
Dringhouses Library

Etty, William
Evelyn, Dr William Arthur
Exhibition Square

Fairfax House
Fawkes, Guy
Flood Heights on the Ouse

George Inn
Grinling Gibbons (carving in Fairfax House)
Goodricke, John

Herbert, Sir Thomas
Hewley, Lady Sarah
Hornpot Lane
Howerd, Frankie
Hudson, George MP

Irish Community, Walmgate

King’s Manor

Lendal Tower
Lister, Anne

Mahé, Yves
Mansion House
Micklegate House (John Carr)
Milburn, George
Milner-White, Eric
Minster Close
Minster Gates
Montagu, Elizabeth
Morrell, Cuthbert
Morrell, J B

Norman House
North Eastern Railway Distant Signal

Our Lady’s Row

Pavement
Peasholme House
Petergate, via principalis
Phillips, John
Pinfold, Dringhouses
(Stephen) Pit Corder
Poole, Matthew
Praetorian Gate
Pritchett, James Pigott
Purvis, John Stanley

Quaker Burial Ground
Queen Margaret’s Arch
Queen’s Path

Railways in York
Red Tower
Richard III
Ridsdale Tate, Edwin
Rigg Monument, St Lawrence’s Churchyard
Roman Column
Roman Fortress
Roman Wall
Rowntree Family: Joseph and Benjamin Seebohm
Russell, George

Shannon, John
Shambles
Ship’s Figurehead, Stonegate
Sheldon, Oliver
Shipton Street School
Siege of York
Smith, Sydney
Snow, Dr John
Sterne, Jaques
Sterne, Laurence
Stonegate, via praetoria
Streets of York: An Introduction, including Aldwark and Coney St
St Andrew Society of York
St Anthony’s Hall
St George’s Cinema, Fairfax House
St Leonard’s Hospital
St Margaret’s School
St Martin le Grand
St Michael le Belfrey
St Sampson’s Church
St Stephen’s Orphanage
St William’s College
Suffragettes

Terry, Joseph
Terry’s Chocolate Works
Tuke, Samuel

Walmgate Bar
Ward, Ven Mary
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate
Wilkinson, Fanny Rollo
Woolman, John
Wright, Austin

Yeld, George
York College for Girls, Petergate
York County Hospital
York Observatory
York Railway Station 1977
York Railway Station 2004
York Railway Station Zero Post
Yorkshire Gentlemen’s Cricket Club, Davygate
Yorkshire Museum & Gardens
York Methodists

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