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Walmgate Bar

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Walmgate Bar

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Walmgate Bar

Name: Walmgate Bar
Rating: 2

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Location: York, Yorkshire And The Humber, England, United Kingdom

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2. York City Walls – York City Walls loop from Leeman Road

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Franzl wandert 🥾

June 27, 2023

The Walmgate Bar is one of York's medieval city gates. It still has an upstream kennel. Inside there is a beautiful café (Gatehouse Coffee) with seating on different floors and on various parts of the wall, really great and quaint. 👍

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RichD

June 3, 2025

Along with The Norman House near Stonegate, this is probably one of the oldest surviving buildings in York, and is the only Bar with its Barbican intact. Walmgate Bar consists of a passageway with arches at each end and a rectangular gatehouse of two storeys above. There are bartizans at the angles towards Lawrence Street, and at the rear is a timber-framed projection supported on two stone columns. The barbican, portcullis and wooden inner doors still remain. The Bar is built of magnesian limestone and was heavily restored in 1645–8. Its upper floors have been used by Gatehouse Coffee for a few years now, and were once a bookshop.

Walmgate Bar is first mentioned in the mid 12th century. The earliest surviving masonry, the inner arch of the main gate, is of this date.

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Location: York, Yorkshire And The Humber, England, United Kingdom

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