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The plays would be part of a cycle and it would take all day to see the full cycle at various points around York.Īfter almost 400 years, York's Mystery Plays were performed again in 1951 on a fixed stage. Each craft guild or "mysterie" would have its own play to perform, on carts and wagons drawn through York. But in York, where the pageants had been staged by members of the city's guilds, the best records of the tradition were preserved.
The performances were suppressed during the Protestant Reformation. The Passion plays, usually performed in the streets during Corpus Christi, were away of relating Bible stories to the masses in the Middle Ages. York's Mystery Plays are among the best-preserved examples.
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The guild still exists today, with a membership of entrepreneurs, teachers, professional and business people.Įnglish passion plays are the oldest dramas in the English language. After selling their textiles and fibres, they returned to York with exotic goods such as mirrors, seal meat and squirrel fur. Primarily wool merchants, the Medieval Merchant Adventurers of York were traders of goods who ventured further than ordinary entrepreneurs, buying and selling in the Baltic States and even Iceland. The Undercroft, for charitable activities.The Great Hall, for business and social gatherings.
Unusually, the building retails the three rooms that would have served the functions of a medieval guild: This impressive, half-timbered structure, built between 13, is still the guildhall for the Merchant Adventurers Guild.Ī Grade 1 listed building and scheduled ancient monument, the Merchant Adventurers Hall was one of the largest buildings of its kind and date in England. And that road was 18 inches below the cellar floor! The apparitions of the Roman soldiers, with their 4th century round shields, have been seen on several other occasions. It was only much later, when excavations were conducted that it was discovered the house had been built across a Roman Road. It was as though they were walking on a surface below the cellar of the house. He reported them carrying round shields, lances, and short swords.Īpparently they looked tired and battle weary - but the most interesting feature of this sighting is that their lower legs weren't visible. While he watched - probably frozen with fear (or maybe legless with beer) - a Roman soldier's helmet, followed by about two troupes, came through the wall. In 1953, while working on repairs in the cellar, a young workman heard the sound of a trumpet. Walking through the house, now owned by the National Trust, one can admire its architectural features and its lovely walled garden, but the overall impact is a bit like walking through a theatrical set. In it, he housed his collections, a mixture of genuine 17th and 18th-century antiques, reproductions, and fakes. Between 18 it was owned and restored by a wealthy local industrialist, Frank Green. The Treasurer's House was originally built to house the treasurers of York Minster.
York claims to be one of the most haunted cities in England, and one of York's most famous hauntings took place in the Treasurer's House.
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